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BPD, just like your other diagnoses, is your psychiatrist’s best attempt at explaining what’s going on for you. Diagnoses can be helpful for understanding ourselves, and selecting the right treatment. BPD, like certain dissociative disorders, does seem to have a strong relationship to childhood...

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Right!? On top of all the stimulation nightmare, it’s a store the size of a sports oval laid out in such a way that no matter which direction you head off in, you’ll have someone coming up behind you the whole time. With a nice little sardines crush at the checkouts before you can escape. Hell no!

Yep, that’s my story too.

How do people get through the supermarket experience without their list being in the exact order that the products will appear, based on their route through the store?? Direct to boot if not home delivery. Ain’t a thing. If going in is essential? Sunnies and headphones for sure. It’s stimulus...

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Welcome:). We have several members I think have written books on their experiences. Definitely haven’t done it myself!

With ptsd, the part of your brain that flags danger (the amygdala) develops an itchy trigger finger, and starts sending us into the fight/flight/freeze response at anything and everything. This change in your amygdala is visible on an fMRI, and the behavioural responses that occur as a result...

Did Picasso works just get even more weird!? Gotta be worth a trip to your local gallery??

I relate a lot to the self-loathing. It fuelled my own SI for over a decade, and is still something I have to live alongside. My relationship with myself is slowly changing though. And it is the game-changer you imagine it can be. Particularly in respect to the people in my life, and pervasive...

Your anger is palpable. And, with a history of abuse, that’s often a massive achievement in the healing journey all by itself (like, I’m finally angry!!). We have a lot to be angry about. Anger is a big, powerful emotion. Like all emotions, it tends to explode all around us, taking no...

Simple isn’t my strong suit when it comes to sleep hygiene. I have a day-long sleep hygiene routine. I have some parasomnias which I need to manage in order to get a good sleep, and I need to get good sleep in order to keep myself out of mental health crisis!! Cardio. At least 20 minutes...

I’ve cracked open A Gentleman In Moscow on the assurance that it was brilliantly written. Well, okay, yes - the writing style is very well done. But, call me a fuddy-duddy, but…I do like a plot. And beyond a few opening pages given over to explaining why this dude is living in a hotel, I’m...

I’ve lived in places that made me feel unsafe every time I stepped out the door. I moved. Not always an easy option. And very few people on the earth are financed sufficiently that they can pull it off quickly. But feeling safe where you live is so important when you have ptsd on board.

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I seem to recall we’re in the same state. The weather here has been crazy - they seem to be coming up with new ways to categorise giant hailstones on the strength of it. Just devastating to so many communities. The damage hail can do is mind blowing, and some of the towns in our region got hit...

This sounds like a very helpful belief for your brain to have, given the type of situation you immerse yourself in with your volunteering. Which is not to say you’re wrong, just that it makes sense to me that this is where your head currently is, and potentially needs to be, in order to cope. I...

If you really respected his boundaries, you wouldn’t have done this: He’s asked you to leave him alone. And you still aren’t doing that. You are ignoring the 1 thing he has consistently told you he wants. Respect what he’s asked for. Leave him alone. Tbh - you’d be coming across as...

I’m similar. Volunteering is important in my life for a heap of reasons. Among those reasons, are the role it’s played, and continues to play, in my recovery. There’s so many different ways to volunteer. There’s a lot of roles where trauma comes up over and over again. But there’s also a tonne...

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I’ve believed this myself in the past. It isn’t true.

Welcome to the forum - sorry you have reason to be here, but glad you found us😊 I have DID, and personally the idea integrating makes my toes curl! But I can definitely relate to needing to step in before things spiral, and the amazing ways being in nature can help with that!

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