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Firstly, @itsKismet , please take my post tone in stride. I am feeling robotic and numb lately, which I think colors my tone in a way I don't intend. I don't know you well, yet something I have noticed in my short time on this forum is that you're around. I remember you. It's been my experience...

This made something click for me. Now I have questions for you, @ground crew (lol, that sarcasm about rationalization), anyone who's been happening by this thread: is this part of the rift that divides the ignorant from those who have seen the worst of humanity? Is it that many (most?) want to...

@sonicwhite and @brat17... I'm not sure if I want to "like" your posts. I appreciate your openness, yes. And yet I have mixed feelings. I feel shocked and upset by the intensity of what you have gone through, and yet I'm relieved that the terror I feel isn't out of place here like it feels in...

Awesome! You sound like you've definitely been on the right track. I haven't yet hit the post count to post links, but whenever I watch Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot on Youtube, I feel like I get a sense of what it's like for an INFJ. This world is just too small for your mind. :) :hug:

Self-fulfilling prophecy? Gotta love it. :banghead: Thanks though. I could never understand why I'd hit the "stupid, immoral, unwholesome" part and never be satisfied with a job. That was illuminating. I wonder how much of that is PTSD. I know many people who can see the holes in our society...

Thanks for explaining the deal with "anxiety issues." This makes sense. As to being INFJ, now this clicks in place. I'm an INTP, but I have a BFF who's INFJ. We have a ton of these kinds of conversations, especially about how people just don't want to or can't handle the deep connections you're...

I still appreciate you posted a response, @reallydown. It does tell me you get it, that sometimes just "you're not alone" can help. The best thing I've found so far is to focus on something that makes me feel productive. Buuuut then it gets harder to justify leaving my project in my corner to...

This is a major one that, despite years of work, I've not been able to kick. An expression I heard growing up is, "It's like spittin' in the wind." It's the feeling that, no matter what I do, it amounts to nothing. I spend a lot of time and energy in a community setting trying to be helpful or...

I can relate to this, especially the sensation of hating people and wanting to hole up in my room to be left alone all the time. Even after years of work I'm still on edge around people. I don't think I'll ever be fully comfortable around them. In my case, I was never really concerned with what...

Wow, @FridayJones, those are all amazing suggestions. Why you got to be so awesome?

Yikes. :hug: if you'll take them @Joan. I don't have this issue, though if I did, I'd set up a number of things in advance: - If I had access to a room in the center of a house, away from windows, I'd turn it into a temporary studio. - Set up a computer, or consoles and a TV with games that...

I have to agree with @Recovery4Me. I hope you can find a therapist that is willing to be supportive of this. I do find it wise that, in the meantime, you're working on gathering information by asking these sorts of important questions. Good luck to you on your search. When I observe young...

Thank you @gizmo, that was sweet and encouraging. :D It's incredible what you've been through. I'm glad your persistence paid off. I do find that life continually stretches us. It says a ton about your strength already that you've endured all that and continue to build yourself to visit your...

sedbfkl;flknwsgbkljnTHANKYOU. *flail* That post was what I needed for everything to click in place after @Chava helped me realize it was an issue with structure. So thanks to the both of you, I was able to go back out today. :joyful::joyful::joyful: I went up to the roof patio that my...

First of all, I want to say I love your profile pic. Gave me a smile. :) Thank you for the suggestions, thoughts, questions. I have been mentally setting goals and destinations, to answer your questions, even if it's something like walking across the street to the store to get ice cream. :shy...

So, I'm regrouped. I'm calm again... As long as I'm in the apartment. As soon as I even think about stepping outside that front door, I start the downhill slide. If I go with my dad, I'm fine. It's going out alone that's the problem. Up until we moved, I had a life set up to where I didn't...

I'll be honest and say I, personally, never went through this. My mom did, however. We didn't grow up in the safest of places, so she gradually told me the stories to help me stay alert. None of her attackers, for one reason or another, ended up in jail. Part of it was that during her time, and...

@FridayJones Do you ever hear of someone who has a strong writing "voice"? You've got one. Are you a writer, by chance? As to what you and @Jigsaw Puzzle said, thank you. Helps to know I'm not alone. I also agree about this forum. Yesterday had quickly degraded into one of the worst days I've...

I saw this post in an email of last week's most popular posts. Congrats! :x3: I respond out of the sense of realizing this thread has prompted me to think of something I haven't really thought of. I've had undiagnosed PTSD most of my life. Everyone around me disregarded it. It was simply a...

Wow @Noah I am echoing your situation here. I had no problems for 5 years and then I move and BAM. That's exactly why I signed up today. It sounds like your instincts are good about why it's happening. I'm going to quote what @WillyKat pointed out in my intro thread:

First of all, I wanted to say thanks for posting in my introduction thread. I didn't intend to happen across one of your posts, but I did. :p As to the part I quoted, I think that sums it up nicely. I would go even further and say that he demonstrated an unhealthy mental process. :poop: Not on...

Ha, I loved that analogy about PTSD. :giggle: Thanks for pointing that out. I'd say you're right on the money. The events and circumstances that caused all this actually sent me deep back into my childhood as far as flashbacks go, and nothing has done that before. Up until today, I was of the...

I started having nightmares at the age of 4. But my life was the kind where I hit the ground running pretty much. My nightmares have never been about anything real, so it stumped my therapist. I had all manner of nightmares then. Like @seedling, sometimes they were normal and built up into...

I have a hunch I will be using the Like button a lot. :x3: I didn't expect such a rapid response. Thank you! @joeylittle - Appreciate the links. The tech geek in me is already coming alive at all the interesting features around here. This forum has got a sleek interface compared to the ones...

Hello everyone. This is unusual for me. When I decide to join a forum, I have usually looked at some threads and found conversations I want to leap into. I tend to forget there's even an introduction section unless I'm looking to greet someone new. I am usually the one to help, usually the one...