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I mean, I guess thanks for actually acknowledging my point about cultural norms instead of ignoring it. I’m not sure why you fall back to the mpaa. Cultural norms are an important aspect of psychology, sociology, and anthropology, probably other fields I’m too tired to dredge up. But it’s a...

I guess for me this is definitely about empathy? If I have a chance of not hurting another living thing, I will always take it. I know what pain is, after all. I guess I just idealize a world where others do the same.

You do have a point. I think it is also hard for me to grasp as I don't take trigger warnings as a "stay away" sign but more as a "be prepared" sign, it hadn't occurred to me that others might not. I mean, I regularly look at things plastered with trigger warnings. Also I completely forgot...

You're really attached to that example. Why consistently use a heuristic in judgement to defend a straw-man of all things?

I do see the benefits of this study. I specifically searched for a therapist who would not base their treatment on their religion, would be sensitive to my sexuality and considered themself an ally, and considered themself a feminist. I would not have been able to continue with a therapist who...

I don't know, I just had a really good session with my therapist. I feel like I really connected with her and I felt really great about stuff when I left. I was actually smiling on my way out to the car and I just felt a lot of affection for her, which is hard for me to feel for basically...

Hm. I'm not totally opposed to trigger warnings when they are used responsibly. I don't think they are overused in every day life, but that is mostly because my university does not use trigger warnings at all so I don't see them everywhere like apparently everyone else does? In fact I've...

So I did give it a try, during the day I came home between classes and watched some TV without headphones. Honestly it was much harder than I expected it to be, and I still kept the volume pretty low compared to how most people I know watch TV. He wasn't actually slamming things or anything at...

Just weighing in... From what I remember, service dogs are not required to wear identifying information (though I believe the owner must be able to prove they are a service animal if needed with like paperwork or a card or something), so just because a dog doesn't have a vest doesn't mean a dog...

I'm not sure but it might also help you better understand your sexuality if you separate your romantic attraction and your sexual attraction. For example, just as someone can be homosexual, they can also be homoromantic. It is entirely possible to be say, biromantic and homosexual...

Yeah I mean it is definitely hard for me to make sounds, too many conditioned responses. When I was young I was punished if I made noise and I still tip toe around and close every door as softly as I can. I figure I must look wild to an outsider, tiptoeing around my own apartment, sliding my...

My hypervigilance is so magnified. Has been since my new neighbor moved in a couple months ago. He slams EVERYTHING—like shaking the whole building kind of slamming, has parties, loud people, loud music, skateboards back and forth under our windows practicing flips or jumps or whatever they...

I seem to go in phases, like I will remember most of my dreams for a couple months, then I might go a year without remembering one. Often I will know I have had one, but I forget it so quickly I’m not even sure it counts. I did used to keep a dream journal because I like to write and I've...

I personally don't think it is very strange. I've been suicidal, but I'd say when I was planning my own living will wasn't during one of those times. In fact it was probably one of the "clearer" times in my life and was like 100% about practicality. For me it was like you said, I just didn't...

I really want one but I'm way too poor. I actually found a tutorial online for one that you sew yourself, basically you just need two rectangles of fabric and you sew vertical channels into the middle and sew up along all the edges but the top. Then you fill each channel with like a fraction...

Honestly it is like I could have written this a couple weeks ago. I was suicidal from all the noise in my classes this semester. People talking loudly, dropping their bags, knocking into chairs, taking their books out and slamming them on the table. A nightmare. And then the professor comes...

Hm, for the most part it just comes out. I suspect my therapist is unnaturally good at reading body language or something because she always just seems to know when there is something on my mind, so I've kind of given up on ever trying to hide or withhold stuff from her. But with one big and...

Hi, I’m new here. I’m not great at forums or just any social interaction in general so this is all kind of weird for me, but I read the forums so much I figured I owe an introduction. I’ve been going to therapy now for nearly a year for trauma from being sexually abused by a family member and...