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Oh wow, Uni... That sort of thing, to take something you love and denigrate it so. God what bastards... Don't give up. Being crafty is a talent.. hell, it's something I'm trying to do more of, since a friend advised me that I needed to get some hobbies that don't involve a computer screen. My...

Ah, okay.

Well, yeah... sorta. I was speaking of the simply human tendency to wish to 'help' others, and how easily it is to find yourself trying to sway their opinion towards your own. Not saying anything about you as an individual... I was also generalizing too. Were you speaking of a specific topic of...

Sounds like a hell of an accomplishment! Bravo!

I agree on that one. To me the saying is a bullshit platitude to dismiss the gravity of what happened. I'm not stronger. I'm certainly meaner.. And it is basically true in a certain kind of sense. After the horrors I've seen I don't take some things as seriously as others. But in other ways I'm...

Hmm... well, had the the physically abusive, totalitarian older brother, and a mother with severe PTSD trying to hold a family together despite my "hidden" alcoholic father. Tormented at home, school and church. Under mental assault from all sides. So.. Little kid: withdrawal, lots of reading...

Ah.. Gotcha. Took a few reads, but I think I know what you are getting at. It's like.. you feel a compulsion to 'educate' others, but what you're really doing is more akin to 'Lording it over others." Like you're being manipulative while trying to "help" others, who don't need your help, nor...

Well, I don't have a slogan for you, but I can sympathize. I'm 40 years old and have no clue what I'm doing. I have no idea what I -should- be doing. Nothing. So I often feel as if I'm wasting my time. Like Friday nights for instance. For the past five years I've been getting together and...

Oh this.. So much this. Since I found out that I have PTSD (and earlier when I learned that I was bipolar) I suffered a major shock to my identity. I found out that many of the things that I thought made up the essential 'me' were in fact just symptoms, very common symptoms, of my illnesses...

Hang in there.

Nope, not a step back. Think of it this way... I'm a Type-II diabetic, and take metformin to lower my blood sugar. And I've heart that eating a largely carbohydrate-free diet, can really lower blood sugar as well, to the point that some people just stop taking the medicine. But if something went...

Yes, the move can do that. Moving is just a stressful thing, and in my experience, any added stress can aggravate my symptoms. It's not that moving is bad per se, actually it can be alot of fun.. but even a beneficial stress can set it off. I remember that preparing for my wedding had me tied in...

Wow.. I had forgotten about this thread almost. I was checking into all sorts of recovery programs and getting into a downward spiral and had to put it all out of my mind. It's a funny thing about memory, isn't it? But yeah.. I can't say as if I feel that God carried me at any time. For a...

It's not a contradiction, and you aren't being told to feel bad about things. Keep in mind that criticism isn't always a bad, mean thing. I think a lot of us here have been the subject of abusive criticism to the point that we have trouble making that distinction. So in this case, you're...

Yes, I had done this. Used to do it quite a lot when I was a child. And since too. It comes up occasionally. The decades of hurt and embarrassment.. I was just thinking last night about how the only reason I'm still alive is because of the people who love me. I can't do that to them, no matter...

I see your point... I was hoping that if possibly some people could sympathize with a character who is ill, then it might lead them to be more considerate of those who are ill. Little stimuli can have a subtle yet big impact sometimes. Plus I've just always wondered about this sort of thing...

Hey, it looks like there is a video game in development that is trying to convey the effects of mental illness through the gameplay. A viking woman who watched her family die is trying to function despite suffering from severe psychosis and PTSD. From reading the development interviews it looks...

Yeah... I think it's been the same way for a very long time..

aka: Displaced Anger. So this thing.. I touched on it before.. blaming God for sticking me in a horrible situation.. Largely due to the quote "God has a plan". (and his plan for me seemed to be misery and torment throughout my childhood).. But now that I have this info on my father.. that he...

Aargh, that's a hard one, as feeling safe is more of a perception rather than an objective thing. I feel varying degrees of safety in different places. I feel mostly safe at work I suppose, but there is always the alertness for people whispering, as I always assume that they are talking about...

I sometimes have the same problem. Mostly with younger people. I have some friends who will complain about things that are rather inconsequential in the long term, but totally ignore things that can have a lasting impact. Like me, when I started smoking. Granted I was pretty much consumed with...

But for those who do want to make the jump, do it on the cheap. :) Dead Link Removed

Hmm.. Actually.. I don't know what I could tell him that would help. 15 was an utterly beautiful time in my life, because I was.. It's hard to explain. My mania was in full tilt at the time, so I was experiencing a world beyond understanding. Seriously, people pay hard money for hard drugs in...

I don't actually see this all the time, largely because my dept is very respectful of each other. I didn't even realize how much we value teamwork until the new licensing lady, Amy, described how her old dept used to be. It sounds like an absolute hell-hole of backbiting and gossip. Our boss has...

Oh yeah.. been there.. done that. Back before I got kicked out of my giant house and had to move to a tiny apartment, this was my daily life. It's an odd thing about spaces.. It seems that we always find more stuff to fill it with, until it just becomes overwhelming... And often the stuff isn't...