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- hi everyone, happy new year!i want to thank you all, again, for your bravery and compassion here on this site. this is truly a place to turn pain into healing because of the sharing that happens here every day. i am proud to be a small part of it,...
- in april of 2012 my father died. somehow this amazing man, who had already showered love, affection, warmth and support all over me my entire life, managed to give me one more gift in his death. like he hit the light switch on his way out the door...
- hi everybody,i'm trying to write a post for my website about gaslighting, and trying to come up with examples to really snap it into technicolor. here's what i have so far:Gaslighting is saying something and un-saying it at the same time....
- i originally posted this in my journal, but now i feel like i want to put this out to everyone. so, if you'll indulge a little double-whammy action......I wanted to share something with all of you, and ask some advice.By a wide margin, one of the...
- i don't particularly like psychobabble television, the dr. oz's and such....I feel they are oversimplified and always race through the important parts of the discussion to get to a commercial break. It feels false to me to talk about a guest's...
- although my ex is not living at my house he does not have a permanent address yet so i still get his mail. i was hanging out with my son who is almost 5, and since he was playing with the mail i tossed him an envelope addressed to my ex that clearly...
- hi everyone, i have not been here for some time, but for a while i was here a LOT. i lifted up the mask of my abuser and saw him for the cruel, lying sociopath he was, and my hurt and self hatred shot like lava out of the top of my head and i raged,...
- i'm not sure if any of you have heard of a site called post secretit started as a blog with the original intent of bringing awareness to suicide prevention. people write their secrets anonymously on postcards, sometimes artistically, sometimes not,...
- i do a lot of reading, and i enjoy the self help genre as much as the next person. i acknowledge the cheese level of dr. phil. but dammit if that man doesn't make sense so much of the time. here's a quote i read today:"a successful reinvention...
- one of the great actors of our day has died, and i am super sad. i have been a fan for a long time. sigh. in his honor i want everyone to watch "boogie nights." it's a great fun film, but it's about porn and penises so, you know, take that into...
- i am consumed with rage and hate towards my ex, and it's keeping me stuck. every time he picks his son up to visit he talks to me like i'm the nanny, and just throws out when he's coming next as if he's announcing to the help to polish the silver...
- i just read daydreamer73's post about a lousy therapist, and naturally it made me want to start throwing bricks at people. i seem to have some sort of existential ADHD because i've had about 20 careers and one of them was a therapist, and i feel i...
- MY FRIEND IS LOOKING TO START 2014 WITH SOME GOOD KARMA AND IS WILLING TO GIVE 2 TICKETS FREE TO SOMEONE IN THE NYC AREA.THE FAB FAUX (BEATLES COVER BAND) IS DOING A SHOW AT CITY WINERY NYC - IT'S AN AMAZING VENUE AND WILL BE A GREAT EVENT!11PM,...
- my husband jerked me to hell and back for the last nine months as we slowly realized our chutes weren't opening and the only thing left to do was brace for impact. the whole way down i was a screaming, crying, stomping, writhing,...
- my (ex)husband has never been open with his feelings, which puts him squarely in a category with every other man i've ever known. because of this i think i became too good at wielding a crowbar to pry the occasional morsel of emotional information...