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It depends on your relationship, tbh. I give mine an xmas present but just a birthday card, but she's so stinking easy to buy for since she loves candles, and that still feels like a safe, generic gift. I stick to under $25 and I think it's also a generally accepted maximum for that...well this...

Not at all. With all the "weird stuff" they work with all the time, this is normal and acceptable as can be.

Like when you've woken from a nap and you're irritable, and your hair wisps in your face are agitating, and you're not ready for noises yet...only not caused by a nap, and doesn't go away as you wake up more. On the bus you can't relax and you can't hardly look around, you hear every little...

Lil ol me

Poor gal, PTSD is a bitch to have and BPD is a bitch to...well, be. I can't imagine being both involuntarily triggered but then having voluntary maladaptive behavior that tends to characterize BPD...like "which things are out of my control and which things am I just convinced are out of my...

If you're dealing with these awful feelings, you've arrived somewhere you were not previously. You are not beating yourself up for the abuser or putting the abuser's lies or intimidation in front of your feelings anymore, and that's progress. It's still hell on earth, but remind yourself...

Yes. I don't experience flashbacks, just nightmares. If you mean having visual component to the dream (as opposed to just fear), yes, also. I have visual dreams and just awful, adrenaline-y doom feelings upon waking (not related to sleep paralysis).

He seems shocked.

I'll give her this: she's getting somewhat close to hinting at the categories or states I'm in while experiencing PTSD symptoms—I'm fairly normal otherwise. I have incapacitating anxiety or adrenaline-y fear, I have active but checked-out numbness, and then I have can't-get-out-of-bed depressive...

Having been alcoholic for three years because of this, I completely understand 10x over. I was surrounded by those who abused me, who then turned around and condemned me for the alcohol abuse. I was fortunate to find an amazing pdoc while going through an outpatient addiction program, who...

I absolutely had trouble speaking and articulating what I was meaning to say. I had no idea why it was there, only that I talked to myself a lot at home as kind of a "rehearsal" so that if I needed to work out and express a thought, I could do so when time came. I remember talking to my pdoc and...

Oh man, I have issues with this, too. My pdoc has pointed out so many things that I've absorbed as normal feelings/behaviors and normal ways I think I should be treated, and so sometimes it feels like nothing is amiss because my emotional/mental experience is uniquely mine—I've...

When I got sober, I had to decide what things were in my control and fix them, and what things I was going to suffer from regardless because of this illness. It was VERY helpful to me to clear out those weeds so that I could learn to manage and cope with what was left, and it felt great to...

I agree with the lady in not wanting your perps to have control over your life any longer. Some of mine still have contact with me and my biggest "revenge" has been in knowing that they can see I no longer need them, and my recovery from drinking (and handling life better) came after I cut ties...

Longtime lurker, first post--howdy y'all ;) What she's trying to say is that there's a trend on Tumblr to embellish, boast, or even falsify certain mental issues or disorders to receive attention, sensitivity, ego validation, or to justify/excuse some insufferable or strange behaviors. People...