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    News Reduce the symptoms of ptsd and anxiety (video)

    This video was posted in May by Dr Craig Malkin. He is a clinical psychologist and lecturer at Harvard Medical school. There is this video and 2 related videos. The one that follows this one is an exercise that I found really helpful. For some reason I can't post an actual link so on You tube...
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    Torn on telling work - any advice?

    Folks, This is a tricky one. There are laws about what an employer is obliged to do if they know about a formal diagnosis and there are laws about what they can't do with same. My T says to be careful as it can backfire. I'm in Ireland, where are you all (if it safe to say) and does anyone know...
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    Childhood Found out some news... abuser is very ill

    I would agree and qualify my response with those thoughts. My abuser is my father so at one end of the scale there is betrayal and at the other is the father I never had. He is still crashing around at the other end of the country wrecking lives and manipulating people. The ripples arrive on my...
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    Developing concentration

    Thanks for that. Lists really help with anxiety also. I really like reading but I am so slow because I can't focus (mentally not optically!). I've been working on it for years and I suppose that has paid off in some ways but it is really slow progress. The other thing about juggling is that it...
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    Developing concentration

    I was listening to an audio book recently. Robert Wright's book "Why Buddhism is true". It is a fascinating book for a number of reasons not least being that he is well versed in cognitive science and much of what he has to say is grounded in that area of research. In one of the early chapters...
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    Childhood Found out some news... abuser is very ill

    This is a tough one. It came up in conversation with my therapist, just hypothetically, and it was a useful conversation. One of the problems we suffer is that there is an endless echoing voice out there that says "get over it". It only happens with invisible disorders. No one would say it to...
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    Sufferer Quite wrecked after 50 years with a psychopath

    My mother was/is a victim also (I think) she did everything she could to please my father and worked flat out to blame me for his abuse. I made him angry or I was a fool for rising to his bait etc etc....I watched him enjoying her efforts to cover up and excuse. He doesn't mind how he gets to be...
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    Sufferer Quite wrecked after 50 years with a psychopath

    I am 54 years old and went no contact with my psychopathic father and his support team (the rest of the family) only 3 years ago. For as long as I can remember he entertained himself by causing distress, destruction and hurt. He is an expert at all the tricks - he lied to me and others to damage...
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