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I've gained a total of six pounds since taking:
Sertraline - 150 mg
Clonozepam - 0.5 mg
Saphris - 10 mg
I'm thinking it's the Saphris, since taking it at night makes me really hungry and makes me want to eat.
Then I did a Google-search, and not only did it erase my worries about not being able to remember every second of my life, but it educated me about a type of person. The Google search brought up a Wikipedia article about people who possess a sort of autobiographical memory, like a photographic...
I've been self-conscious about keeping one because if I do keep one, it would be a sign that I would still need a journal to recover, that I'm reliant on it for help. Do people without PTSD keep journals/diaries, and is it considered normal? I'm not worried about it being discovered, but I am...
At least once every day, I enter these states wherein everything I see and experience reminds me of the past. Eventually, I feel myself reliving my traumatic incidents, over and over in my head. My counselor once suggested that I try to relive these experiences differently, akin to what I would...
I have a therapist I can talk to every other week, but when I get into an episode on other days, I usually try to handle it by myself without other people's help. I keep trying to convince myself I don't need other people in my life to talk to, so I can prove I'm stronger than the illness I'm...
I go to college now, and I found that I just wanted to say the things I wanted to say to them, but couldn't.
My memories and feelings were heavily repressed then, so getting them out just makes it so much better. Just wanted to share with you all.
Like, the flashbacks constantly bombard me with unpleasant feelings when I'm trying so hard to concentrate on reading a chapter of my textbook. So I feel like I have to read it again because I couldn't keep my concentration, and that stunts my progress. It's really hard for me; sometimes I feel...
I know symptoms related to schizophrenia can appear when someone has PTSD, but I've been aware of these voices for six years.
My PTSD started around two years ago, though, so I'm certain that it didn't cause me to have schizophrenic symptoms. But I do think the PTSD worsens it.
Biology, Algebra, and History are the subjects that irk me the most. Because when I relearn things in my college classes, it brings back memories of learning those same things in their high school equivalents. And when I think of that, I remember my experiences at high school and how unpleasant...
People always teased me about my weight in high school. One of the most uncomfortable parts of their teasing is poking my 220 lb stomach. Whenever I would slap their hand to make them stop it, they would immediately withdraw it so their hands wouldn't get hit. They'd grin in triumph, and I...
I'm on Sertraline, Clonozepam, and Saphris. It's usually like an hour before I have to take my Clonozepam, that I get really depressed. I usually just lay in bed until the memories stop coming. Then, like an hour after taking it, it feels like I can do anything. My doctor told me that Clonozepam...
I remember that someone was sealing up my memory, telling someone that if I ever recalled it, very bad things would happen. And then I consented to having this memory sealed up, and I continued on with life with an ache in the back of my head. I was so afraid that I would remember the memory...
It was my cousin, Albert.
He was always mean to me, and he kept calling me fake whenever I tried to act nice; he tried to show that I wasn't a nice guy by always provoking me until I lost my temper. But the one thing I realize from this is that him calling me fake transcended into a mentality...
Like when I'm re-experiencing an event, I feel like part of my brain is pulsating. And it's like only a part of my brain that's pulsating, not all of it. I've been having these for a while, and I'm curious as to what this could mean. I haven't told anyone, because I didn't think anyone would be...
Specifically:
-Expecto Patronum (shown in third and fifth movies) against dementors
-Occlumency, used to shut the mind off from unwanted mental intruders (introduced in fifth movie)
Like this memory's so awful, your brain blocked it out of your conscious mind until now. But now that you've remembered it, you're afraid to lose it again. Is it natural for one to try to relive the memory in question so as to not forget? Especially for me, losing memories is scary. I remember...
I've been bullied chronically in high school, and as a result, have many bad memories.
When I started going to sessions with my therapist, we would always talk about keeping the memories under control, to gain power over them. She would sometimes talk about how my day was, irrelevant to my...
The only one on whom I can rely for emotional comfort is my mother. I can talk to her about my memories, but she hardly speaks any English. She says to me in Chinese that she can understand what I'm saying in English, but whenever I ask her to repeat what I said in Chinese, she just nods as if...
Like if you see something that makes you think about something else, and then that something else reminds you of your trauma. Introverts like me do this all the time, and it's hard to not be triggered when I'm in my head. And it's only when I'm in my head that my train of thought triggers me...
When I apologized, she cried and lunged herself into my arms. It made me feel so good. It made me feel like I was being unconditionally accepted, forgiven for the things I've done. But this was all in a dream. The latter thoughts are my insights on the dream. I think it told me that I have to...
Now I do. I always feel like I'm in stuck in the past, forced to argue with people who've long departed my life.
I take in my surroundings---I see it, but I don't actually perceive it, if that makes sense. Like say I'm looking at a clock that has its short arm to 6 and long arm to twelve. When...
I ask because ever since the tramautic events have happened, I've started to notice that I've been making a lot of spelling and grammar mistakes. I often have to double-check what I write. Granted, I've always had to, but I feel like it's more meticulous to check for those mistakes.
Maybe it's...