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- Have others experienced, while with the abuser, intense psychological issues such as adhd (or just it being almost impossible to concentrate), ocd, agoraphobia (or feeling so crazy-flustered from the trauma, and feeling self-conscious about walking...
- I'm so sorry of being too depressed/fearful of life to leave my bed half the time!! I'll never get better if I keep giving into those feelings and staying in bed this much and watching all the opportunities in life pass me by. I'm gonna have to...
- Hi. I am just stepping out and trying to make a lot of friends. I am, or at least can be a very social, outgoing person. I've been isolated due to circumstances (grew up in a cult, abusive family) more than anything else. We were pretty brainwashed...
- Hi everybody, I am wondering if ANYONE knows ANYTHING about when severe, potentially life-threatening abuse occurs, when there has been little to no prior history of abuse.I am in one myself, in which there was a history of severe emotional abuse,...
- Why is addiction so powerful? Why do we keep coming back, EVEN though a part of you REALLY does NOT want to and knows life will be infinitely easier if you just choose to f*ing doing something else!!! Drives me to insanity.. :/
- I hate feeling lonely :(
- Does anyone else have nightmares that keep them turning to hiding away and self-soothing (e.g. watching tv/taking xanax/etc.) when they wake up? For me, that pattern keeps me locked in a cycle of depression. I wake up so scared and deathly...
- I often have nightmares, even during naps sometimes, even though falling sleep itself is often blissful for me. I wake up feeling terrified. And don't want to start the day. Even though it's over, I'm in that mood. I feel too terrified. The whole...
- Seems like it's infinitely harder to meet women than men (I'm a woman). I'm new to realizing I'm bisexual, so I'm looking for advice on this! lol. Some areas near where I live in have a lot of homosexuality/bisexuality, but it's not like it's a big...
- Anyone else struggle/struggled with affects of living with abuse at home while in public? I often look like how people who are being stalked in movies look (even more extreme actually). That makes the experience much more traumatic (end up...
- Do others struggle with effects of trauma in public, specifically that cause them to act weird? I do intensely (it is from more than trauma, also from isolation, growing up in a weird family, etc.) but I do ok for the most part unless triggered by...
- Has anyone else who struggles with agoraphobia to one degree or another, realized that it is due to the fact that they genuinely act weird in public? (I do, took me years to figure out that that's the reason why, and I've figured out why I do, but...
- I'm soo tired of the emotional abuse. That was my world (on top of a physical abuser--the rest has been severe enough emotional abuse). I'm tired of being made to feel really bad for no reason, small, demeaned, childish, when I'm a beautiful,...
- How do you keep going and going and doing everything you HAVE to do to survive, when you are soo depressed and pretty much real sick from it? How do you keep dreaming that one day, if you persevere, things can be different?
- Hi, I am in what is becoming a gravely abusive situation. Since it is by a parent and not a partner (I am 24), I was told by shelter counselor that I may not be eligible for shelters. I will try (I also don't have a car, or a job, so could get stuck...