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I'm currently at an eating disorders program and we're looking at PIW as a possible transfer situation. Still open to Pratt even though they've denied my case 3 times already. I feel like giving up. This is a never ending battle.

I am also looking for information on The Center @ PIW for trauma treatment.

What do you do when you're scared but currently safe? We're having a flashback and some of my younger parts a very scared right now. We're currently implementing lots of self soothing type things like deep pressure therapy, heating pad, blankies, etc. Still scared.

I don't like it because movies like these get me taken less seriously as a DID patient. Sybill and Eve have already ruined my reputation. Didn't need another face in the mix to future pollute the validity of my condition. I'd rather no films were made about it instead of these piss poor...

The county (victim services and also a public psychiatric clinic) turned me away. Victim services didn't want to deal with a suicidal client. Referred out. Continuous loop of endless (and frequently repeated) referrals.

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I've been trying for months to get help and I'm in agony. I would rather die than keep doing this over and over dead end after dead end. I can't keep doing this but somehow I still manage to keep going. The pain is unbearable, though. I have 3 more tries and then I have no more options. This...

The physical abuse stopped years ago and one parent significantly changed so the psychological abuse is much less. We tried to get away multiple times and those all failed. Entirely dependent for even basic needs. Can't work.

It doesn't allow me to choose all of them...

That was brutal.

I believe in God and it has become very apparent that he dgaf.

To the original post: make it clear that your service dog is NOT working full time until he has been in training for 2 years. (even if some days he does work full time, he's still in training) They probably think you have a brand new program dog fully trained and fresh.

f*ck ya

I consider substance abuse a mental health issue but nobody has to agree with me on that. It's a symptom like DID or anorexia. DIDers are addicted to dissociation (cheaper than street drugs yet just as sedating and numbing) and anorexics are addicted to the high of starving (well, I was, and...

Same. Any perceivable redeeming qualities at the end are rendered invalid.

It helps with calming and grounding but does not make flashbacks or nightmares go away. It can help lessen the feeling of hypervigilance. The only negatives I've experienced are related to my hypermobility and chronic pain. On the nights my pain is really bad, I can't tolerate the weight even...

@joeylittle Could you elaborate more about the ending in another spoiler? I don't get it and I seriously have no intention of seeing the film either way because it's still offensive to me that my disorder has been represented in commercials to millions of people to induce fear in them.

It sounds as though you need to be evaluated for a Motility Disorder by a Gastrointerologist. Examples of motility disorders are Gastroparesis and Dumping Syndrome.

Over a year. Xtian fundamentalists. My friends had to reteach me the difference between right and wrong, especially in terms of bodily autonomy.

It's called Deep Pressure Therapy and it was discovered by Temple Grandin, a famous woman with autism. It was originally used to calm cattle and she utilized the properties to assist herself. Deep Pressure Therapy started as a "hug machine" (an example of this is used in the movie Temple...

Movie Pilot stands up for mental illnesses: Link Removed

I have been in one of the worst of the worst institutions where I had to sleep with a makeshift weapon to protect myself. I have been in an institution that denied me basic medical care. I have also been in a reasonably good one. I know when I need inpatient and believe how desperate I am to...

I keep telling my therapist that I'm not an alcoholic yet. Pretty damn close to start drinking because I can't do this anymore. I'm sure you can relate.

How's it now?