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    Does It Ever Get Better? Struggling With Isolation & Uncertainty in Motherhood. Searching For Career Direction & Purpose & Friendships.

    The last few weeks... months have been rough. I don’t know why I always assumed I have so many friends. As soon as I became a mother and didn’t have energy to give my 100% to listen to these friends, they stopped showing up. It took me back in time. How did I forget? How did I forget my...
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    Dealing with Anger after Childhood Sexual Abuse

    When I was 9/10 I was sexually abused by a woman who lived in our house with her kids (they didn’t have a place to live in so my father was helping them out). She sexually abused me and groomed for almost two years. I of course grew up with a lot of guilt, shame, sugar addiction, dissociation...
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    Phone addiction

    I feel like I have so many questions in this forum. I feel bad asking for suggestions and just venting but here we go. I have been working on my sugar addiction- it’s been alittle over two months and it’s going so well. I am extremely grateful. I also have phone addiction. Just the need to...
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    Dissociation and Driving

    Ok so I neee serious help. I am 34 and I am terrified of driving and I am terrified of sitting in the same car with my loved ones. Taxi? I don’t care. I can fall asleep in the car. I used to drive a few years ago. Heard a few scary news. Friend’s husband died in a car accident. A couple of...
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    Is my partner emotionally unavailable?

    Ok I have to get this off my chest. My husband drives me crazy. He’s extremely helpful when it comes to the chores and spending time with our daughter. So he thinks I should be happy. I am happy and grateful even though this is his space and his child as much as it’s mine so really he isn’t...
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    Lost and Hopeless

    This is very difficult for me to post but I don’t know who else to talk to. I have been struggling with debt since college - I am 34 now. I find it so embarrassing. I haven’t told a single soul how much I actually owe. I’ve experienced dissociation since 2012 and ever since I’ve been wasting...
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    Dissociation and Sugar Addiction

    So back in 2013, I started a diet called “ideal protein” and lost 60 pounds. When I got hit my goal weight, my dissociation got WORSE... a lot worse. I would look at the numbers on the scale and couldn’t grasp the idea that I was 60 pounds lighter. I was miserable and dissociated almost every...
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    Do you ever feel like this? Like something dragging me down and not letting me grow.

    hello everyone. I am new here. I am in my 30s and sometimes I feel like I am still a child. Not just metaphorically... but literally. I stopped driving because of my dissociation. I almost never put on makeup even though I am very good at it. I don’t dress any differently now than when I did in...
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