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I'm doing a lot better with this whole pandemic isolation thing than most people in my life and I just realized: I've been feeling isolated for YEARS! I've gotten accustomed to it and I anticipate it'll continue for the rest of my life. No wonder I'm not phased by the isolation from the...

Honestly, what he realizes and what will motivate him to change aren't on my radar: just considering asking him these kinds of questions feels "codependent-ish," especially when the goal is for him to do (anything). I'm trying to focus on increasing my ability to feel happy and peaceful despite...

So I should move in with my parents who also treat me less than I deserve? (Because my dad has social anxiety disorder and I learned codependency from my mom). I'll be able to get my own place in the fall and I'm holding-out on any decisions until then.

How can a person have PTSD without being a trauma victim? It seems like you stating your diagnosis (without going into your trauma) already answered his question. Hopefully this receptionist will take your reaction as a lesson that he/she should leave this question to the provider. ?

For 10 years I've been seeing my T for my PTSD from being stalked by my exBF after I broke up with him because I caught him fondling my best friend while she was unconscious. My T readily admits she specializes in trauma and isn't good with relationship dynamics. That being said, I'm having...

Having treated so much of my PTSD I do feel stronger and wiser, but I also find it increasingly difficult to spend time with people in casual interactions. I feel like everyone else lives in a world where sociopaths like my serial rapist ex only exist in fiction. I used to live there, too -...

My friend's sister is getting beaten by her boyfriend and yet she's having trouble getting him to move out....I have trouble seeing how that could be projection. None-the-less, I can see how what I'm struggling with is seeing my own mistakes in others. But when 90% of Americans have...

Nope - I suspect every person I meet of being a sociopath like my ex. I'll take codependents over sociopaths any day!

Long-story-short, it took me a decade to face the fact that I'd dated a serial rapist who then stalked me and raped two of my friends. It's been a year since I started facing it and working on it in therapy. I'm generally feeling good these day - maybe one day in 60 I have a mini-panic attack...

Even though my serial-rapist-ex-bf started stalking me a decade ago and stopped 6 years ago I only started talking to my therapist of 8 years about it last year. It's been a whirl-wind since! I've worked through most of my guilt about him raping women (including 2 of my friends). Side note...

Yup - I have a great therapist who I've been seeing for a while.

This is the mantra I've adopted to protect myself from people who blame me for treating me poorly (see "blame shifting" with personality disorders). Examples: when I discovered my ex cheated the first time he said, "I didn't think you'd mind because you were mad at me that day" (so now I'm...

I just found this post on an Google search, but have been on this forum for a couple months. I have PTSD from an exBF who cheated when we were together, stalked me after we split up, and was accused of rape 5 times that I know of (twice by mutual friends who I trust 100%). I just got diagnosed...

I'm just now realizing that when I'm upset with someone I'm terrified she/he will do something un-fixable to our relationship. And I'm realizing it's because of experiences like the first time I caught my soon-to-be-stalker ex-BF cheating his exact reaction was, "you got upset with me before I...

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Have any of you found that your psychological/emotional trauma has affected your sex life? Mine didn't at noticeable level until I started working though it - then it changed EVERYTHING - including my fantasies. Maybe it's because I slept with my ex before he started stalking me, which...

My therapist first suggested PTSD for me 6 months ago. I've been seeing her since I started having panic attacks 8 years ago, but only just told her about my experience being stalked by my ex, who raped 2 of my friends, was accused of rape by 3 other women in my presence, and carved my name into...