Get hard or loose respect!
Peoples of origin believe in : Never ever disclose your struggles because that’s weakness, that’s when you loose respect..
12 yrs of Therapy and I’m still grappling with this BS. Ex stepfather sends a message he is being admitted to the closed psychiatric ward, he asks...
I remember times when he used to have 100 ideas at once...
Ah let’s go to India, let’s go to Thailand, let’s do this and That.. we did it, because we didn’t know better, my mother followed him and did mostly as he wished. Manic episodes are really tough, he had delusions of grandeur..
shouldn’t...
So sorry you had to through these times. In my case it was just a few days.. difficult to live with someone with severe mental illness.. my A while was too exaggerated. He used to travel all the time..
My mother went from one abusive marriage to the next.
Thanks.
I know him since the 80s, he wasnt physically abusive but verbally.. I had to sleep in a kitchen from 1995 since 2002. He used to wake up at 3 and put all lights on and work during manic phases, and I had to go to school the next day..
2000 he throwed me out of the apartment because I...
Woke up to see that my stepfather has sent me a message telling me that he is being admitted to a locked psychiatric ward due to his bipolar disorder. Only have very little contact with him due to his mental illness. Two days ago, he appears and tells me that he’d like to add my name for...
Can recommend Attachment disturbances in Adults Brian P Brown, Healing developmental Trauma, his book is good especially when it comes to describing different attachment styles, though I didn’t like the fact that he tries hard to promote his NeuroAffective relational Model (NARM).
Will someday soon face work capability assessment, maybe in a few months or years.. then I‘ll have to deal with this sh**. Early 20‘s: I slept.. in a room, hardly went out, No work, just a little school now and then. So when people asked me anything, I’d look at them as if I was Samara morgan...
I was wondering (Just my subjective view) The fact That I need it validated from the outer so that I can accept it has this being dependent from others kind of a aspect to it..
I was going to write:
Lionheart, if accepting means that I‘m in need of an explaination because my participation in social life is limited due to Trauma then I have to question that very necissity to do so. It has relevance when it comes to leagal proceedings, assessments etc..
Ah that’s good! A short distance.. I see her often, but she’s also very negative about people..
Thanks man! Enjoy the sun if it’s available today;blank;
Me too , I’m having this nausea in the mornings due fear! Going for a walk with my mother and then shopping! Laundry is being done! Where are you going?
Jazmine, still have those days of collapsing but manageable. When parts are arising, there is the child in fear and shivering and the part/parts that are raging. Unfortunately, if I’m massively triggered I have a part that really wants to fight, scream and attack.. I have only had three...