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    How to feel rage in a controlled way?

    Thanks so much for the tips you just offered! I have pretty much stopped worrying about using the f*ck word around people. I still try to repress it around young kids, but not many others. It’s the best relief I get from rage. Not to be political, but I did just tell my roommate that if I ever...
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    Do narcissist parents have children for supply?

    I just got a raise at work, and the memory came back to me about my father, who was a truck driver, telling me when I was 21 years old that I would never make more than him. He was the sexual abuser and he was narcissistic. I am now , at 56 yo making more than I ever did, and he’s living...
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    12-step programs and cptsd/have you been harmed by 12 step programs?

    Wow, I understand that. I knew a horrific heroin addict/alcoholic who became a therapist. He once told me that he cannot endure being alone with his thoughts, so he always has tv, radio, etc. to distract him. He married a young woman about 20 years his junior, and just got more and more toxic as...
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    12-step programs and cptsd/have you been harmed by 12 step programs?

    Hey Mach123. I spent about 10 years in AA, and although I was not harmed myself—I had the best support I had ever had in my life—I know there were many, many, many sickos with various problems other than alcohol. That’s actually what “13th-stepping” is all about. Usually aggressive, perverted...
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    Sufferer Grateful to have found site - childhood trauma & recent stresses

    Thanks laser. Love your picture—the lion. My family is composed of ten cats and myself.
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    Sufferer Grateful to have found site - childhood trauma & recent stresses

    I wish I had thought to look for a site like this sooner. After reading posts, I can tell it’ll help to have people who understand to share with. Going through one of those emotional hangovers that come after losing it on my roommate when he was fired Friday night. We’ve been together 10 years...
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