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I am trying to understand something, I go in circles. Most of the time I am checked out, can't focus, ruminating. Like right now - feeling confused and trying to understand something. Then sometimes the world feels unreal, there's something evil just behind everything, I am glimpsing something I...

It seems I have this. Classically my parents were loving but unsafe. I don't think I have felt friendship or love my entire life. I just feel really bleak. I know it will never change.

I am really struggling with supermarkets. My partner has agoraphobia so I often go to the supermarket alone, armed with a shopping list. I struggle to read the list in the supermarket, forgetting what I have and haven't got - I stand frozen in an aisle like an idiot reading and re-reading the...

Since I was small I have had a powerful sense of a hostile supernatural presence nearby. Alone, or in the dark, the terror was unbearable and I thought my mind would break. "Mind would break" wasn't just words, the fear was so bad that on a few occasions I have literally "seen" the presence with...

Years ago, I was targeted for relentless harassment by a group of transphobic youths. They would call me a pedo, make offensive gestures and even throw rocks at me. The local police did not take effective action. Eventually the adults in the neighborhood joined in. I couldn't move away because...

I have been struggling with my internal critic lately. I made two big discoveries (or rediscoveries) this year. Firstly, I realized I am intersex. Secondly, I suffered a brain injury as a newborn. But my critic has been working overtime to undermine this. I have had a demeaning doubt loop...

I was one of the last generation of children to be born with Rh disease before the widespread availability of preventative treatments. I was born premature and blue and needed substantial blood transfusions to prevent bilirubin toxicity. I certainly avoided the worst effects, but I do think my...

Assuming we are perfectly rational actors, and there is no response bias based on trauma severity, the results will be 50/50.

Hi all, I am Ags. I have been a member for a while but haven't posted yet. I work as a programmer / technical writer, although I am currently unemployed. I am a bit of an alphabet soup of medical conditions. I was born intersex and with autism. I have CPTSD and a history of psychotic...