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I absolutely adore the way you worded this. I have literally, never in my life, been able to relate to anything to the degree I was able to relate to your post.

I just found out I'm pregnant yesterday.....

It seems to be limiting how much I can actually quote posts; so here are my replies to the remainder of the responses: Friday: How do you ignore feelings that can be so intense and overwhelming and seemingly impossible to ignore? I wish I could do this, and I attempt to convince myself to...

I actually have that book. I have only read bits and pieces of it. Right now, I am reading "Complex PTSD From Surviving to Thriving" by Pete Walker, as well as a book recommended by him in that book, "Coping with Trauma Related Dissociation" by Kathy Steele, Suzette Boon and Onno Van Der Hart. I...

7C's, it won't even let me quote you, so here is my response to your reply: Thank you, this post comforted me a lot. I do try my best to do positive self talk every day; it has something I have been pursuing for years now. It does, indeed, help, it's just harder to see the positive effects it...

Firstly, thank you all, so very much. Your responses truly are greatly appreciated. I will try to post as many quotes to one reply as I can since it won't allow me to submit a response with all of the quotes in one reply. I am so sorry you are feeling this way. I know how defeating it feels...

I typed out a reply but it keeps telling me, "Anti-Spam Prevention: You cannot post links" and I didn't even put any links in my reply, it just has all of the responses to my OP quoted and then my responses to each of them. ???

I don’t know what to do. I feel lost. I feel trapped. I feel smothered. Most of all, I feel like running. I just want to run. I just want to run. So bad. And it’s literally taking everything in me not to. So, I moved to California from Seattle last year. Everything had been great. I had been...

How could she have possibly been responsible?! She was 9 years old! That makes me sick.

I'm afraid I can't help you because I don't know much about the subject, but just wanted to send you some (((HUGS))) and tell you you may want to see a psychologist or someone more experienced if your therapist does not seem like s/he is not being of much help, and bring this list to him/her and...

Honey, you did NOT make something out of nothing! I am so sorry, but yes you were sexually assaulted by your brother, whether or not he was going through a tough time, he was old enough to know better! It is very normal to struggle with these thoughts, I did, too. I went through something...

I am going through the same thing right now, or something quite similar... I am getting back into a relationship because I "ran away" from it previously. I want to try it again, because I am afraid I left the relationship because my issues beat me, as you were saying. I also battle feelings of...

I was walking in the neighborhood I grew up in. I was walking two dogs (I am a dog trainer), correcting them as they pulled on the leash and disobeyed. A man was walking behind me with his dog, who was acting crazy and yanking on the leash, dragging the man and it looked as if the dog was...

Thank you @shimmerz that made me smile!! :)

What kind of doctor should I see? I have seen multiple therapists and to be honest with you, they have not been very helpful at all. I have also seen a psychiatrist and he just put me on medication - my appointments with him have never been more than 20 minutes long. I know he will continue to...

@Suzetig, I would love to stay longer if I could, but I am staying with my grandmother here and her house is tiny and she just retired last week and decided she wants her house to herself and that it is time for me to go home now. Unfortunately she has not been very welcoming for the duration of...

@shimmerz This is also a great idea (you are full of them!). I have been reading a book about different energies and allowing your energy to flow through you instead of letting it build as pent up emotion, and it is also helping me a lot. Thank you.

I looked them up, and I'm really not sure. My mother mentally and physically abusive and very manipulative growing up, but I don't have any memories of my childhood. My earliest memory is from when I was 13 (and they are all bad). As far as reactive attachment disorder...she would never admit if...

Wow that is a great way to put it! Thank you so much.

@shimmerz I just posted my own thread so I wouldn't take away from this one. Thank you so much.

I moved across the country three weeks ago because things were just not going well where I grew up and had lived my whole entire life. I had a life time of experiences in my "home town" and most of them were absolutely horrific, and I got stuck in a whirlwind of drama, defense mechanisms, and...

Good for you! I have worked the program (that is what they call working the 12 steps the AA and NA program is based on) off and on as I have struggled with my sobriety for 4 years. Unfortunately, it has been a struggle with me and I have never really stuck to AA/NA, although the people have...

Hi there! I just wanted to let you know that I completely understand. I am also headed back home next week after moving out of state. I am extremely nervous, especially after coming so far after moving out here and doing so much self reflection, coming to so much self-insight, etc. I am afraid I...

I came across this while searching Fear of Abandonment threads and found it extremely interesting (written by Pencil): I had honestly never thought of this. This was really quite an insight for me. My thought process has always been that I cannot trust people because they might betray me. I...

Ayesha - yes I edited my post to add my question about if people take the same meds and the experiences they have with the meds, as well as to add the effects the meds have on me. :) I have not thought about doing memory games. Where would I find those? I have only been taking them for 3 weeks...