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Hi,

Sorry, this might seem a stupid question but I am a professional and was diagnosed with DID and PTSD a year ago. I have noticed that my DID has never interferred or caused issues with work; So sometimes I wonder if I really have DID ?.... My question is can someone have DID and still hold a job and appear " normal" to other people? I am questioning myself because it seems that whatever ...

Love. Without Empathy. It's nonexistant.

Why do most Aspies mistake sympathy for empathy?

Why can't I understand others?

Are Aspies really un-empathic? Cause if Aspies can't put themselves in the shoes of other Aspies then they really do need a cure.

Respond please

Kedylo Aire Hazilicious

Everday I eat about 200 calories. I excercise compulsively and I've lost my apetite. I don't know how to get better.. I don't know where to start?

hi everyone

to give u a brief heads up i've had an extremely messy life with lots of feeling bad and bad things happening from a very young age.

ive had other parts of myself (???have no idea how this is even possible, prob y im having so much trouble getting my head around it) take over when i have dissociated past the point of giving up control or even 'them' just taking control because ...

i have a strange type of paranoia with someone and i havent found a way to control it. Sometimes it is non-existent, other times its suffocating. Basically there is someone in my life that i used to date and who i am now on "friends with benefits " like terms with. This is someone very important to me and sometimes when im not being paranoid i can talk to her about anything just like any ...

I've had 7 admissions into hospital over the past year and am currently under section, a compulsory treatment order which means I have to get depot injections. Thing is when I was in hospital a couple of nurses said I was schizophrenic, my nurse gave my parents leaflets on schizophrenia and I'm on Risperidone which is to treat schizophrenia, yet no doctor/ psychiatrist/ psychologist has told me I'm schizophrenic and I'm too scared to ask. ...

Do your hallucinations become worse at a certain time of day?

Mine seem to become most intense between 1am-4am...I hardly get any sleep. Daytime is easier.

For the longest while now I've wondered about myself.

OMG ... SO MANY TIMES .... I have been described by my friends as having ALL these characteristics (the ones in CAPS are the ones that are most prominent in me - but ALL are prominent):

... EXTREME temper tantrums... moood swings... FEAR of rejection...
EXCESSIVE need for approval/reassurance/validation.. poor memory... SELFCENTREDNESS... pre-occupation w physical appearance...

I have been accused of being larger than life, overly ...

I started lying around the time I reached puberty (I am almost 20 now). I lied about anything and everything (ranging from whether or not I brushed my teeth to saying that I had been raped, pregnant, and had a miscarriage... which was caused by beatings I received from the guy who got me pregnant).
I lied about nothing and anything... all the time aware that they were lies, but once I started, it's like ...

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