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    Sleep Terrors - Does Anyone Else Deal With Them?

    For those who might not know, a sleep terror is when your body wakes up from a nightmare, and you act out the nightmare without knowing what you are doing. So, has anyone found a non-drug treatment for these? I am using mirtazapine currently, and that certainly is helping, but I am wondering...
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    Torture Vs Abuse

    Torture is about pleasure and/or to attain an end goal. Abuse is about lasting, exerting, and furthering, power and control over another.
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    You know you have complex trauma when......

    ..when every single action, inaction included, causes an anxiety attack.
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    Sufferer Never Really Talked About My Ptsd

    Thank you both. I guess it would be prudent to describe my trauma. For context, I have asperger's syndrome, so was a very innocent, and emotionally open child to start with. My first trauma was seeing the death of a sheep in front of me, without any warning or anything of the sort beforehand...
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    Question About Seroquel Xr, For Anxiety, Not For Insomnia

    For me, Seroquel was like taking an elephant gun to my anxiety, but it killed most of my emotion too. My sense of humour disappeared almost entirely, and I didn't feel much in the way of emotion the entire time I was on it. And this was from 50-150mg, not even a high dose. Be very careful with...
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    Sufferer Never Really Talked About My Ptsd

    I'm James, 26, from Australia. I don't even know where to start. I have lived my whole life as a series of traumatic events, with short spaces in between. I just feel totally broken and unsalvageable, and don't know where to reach out. I found the forum through a google search, and thought it...
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