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- I just can't get up in the mornings. I don't know how to get up and do the things I need to do. Or if I can. I don know how to find joy. Or even much real comfort. I just feel like a blank. Don't know what to do. (Done therapy n all for years).
- Any information regarding how to deal with, minimize (etc.) flashbacks would be greatly appreciated. Having a lot. It's weird, I don't know much about how our thoughts work. Like I think I have memories all the time, even neutral ones (triggered by...
- I've written before and began to get some helpful feedback answers for which I am so grateful, but I still feel quite lost and clueless. I have an abusive parent who is insanely mentally ill, acts like a child and even an infant somehow oftentimes,...
- Hi. I am almost 25. Up to this point, my life has been a truly hellish nightmare of abuse by my family that worsened in my teenage years and then was significantly worse in college. I was really stuck because I was also raised in a cult and because...
- That's how I feel. :(Maybe the hardest thing of all things to bear.
- How do you get the social support (we all desperately need, or at least I am sure that I do) with agoraphobia..? =/ Any and all suggestions deeply appreciated..
- I don't think I ever realized how completely overwhelmed by shame I am. I had to act in really sexual ways for so many years (that is only part of the story) and it has not quite ended yet. But I feel like the biggest thing is that I was not even...
- I have a couple addictions (which do not involve alcohol/substance abuse) that are completely ruining my life and have kept me on the edge of death (in high risk situations, on the edge of survival regarding resources, virtually non-functioning,...
- I feel like I could potentially have a lot of friends/acquaintances, and would love to. I am trying to figure out what kind of settings that can occur and/or what one has to do for that to happen. Because I think setting and knowing what to do are...
- Does anyone else fee like they have embarrassing behavior that is tied to their sexual abuse..? Like the way they interact with people sometimes (for example accidentally coming across as really seductive)? Like, for me, I think I come across as...
- Does anyone know anything about covert sexual abuse? It is when a person (in this case a parent) looks at you sexual, remarks about you sexually, indicates they want to have sex with you basically, etc.
- Agoraphobia for me recently is like a giant, horrible hellish cage-like existence, in which I am kept almost utterly (certainly unbearably) alone.
- I never realized how profoundly alone I am. I grew up in a cult (cults are very tiny and by nature, one of the worst things they do to you, is they are EXTREMELY isolating). I left a couple years ago, losing the majority of what little community I...
- My abuser who became very seriously dangerously threatening and then increasingly stalkerish once I left, is a parent, so all of my family and friends know this person--and they do not realize this person is dangerous to me (they can't quite grasp...
- Does anyone have experience with/knowledge about emotionally abusive therapists? I only got out a few months ago of an intense 5-year relationship with a therapist who I now realize was pretty severely emotionally abusive, in some ways. It is very...