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I was thinking that maybe I had BDD but I'm sick of trying to diagnose myself. Maybe you all could give me some kind of advice.

Around middle school was when all this started. Every girl had a boyfriend and I was always left out. I started thinking something was wrong with my appearance and while teachers and family members said I was pretty enough to be a model--I still didnt believe I was pretty. ...

I was raised in the Pentecostal Church and mentally I suffered for years because of it.As a young impressionable child I was exposed to all the supernatural hokus pokus that this denomination embraces.I was always a sensitive child so the speaking in unknown tongues,the congregation falling to the floor in what appeared to be eptiletic seizures terrified me.The claims of persons hearing the voice of God lead me to believe that I was hearing the ...

As others have mentioned, the behaviour does seem to fall within the autistic spectrum (although it could be a number of other things).

You are in the process of getting some relevant medical training; talk to her. Tell her that you are concerned because of how the developmental delays seem to cluster around a serious and exploding condition. Tell her you will go with her to the pediatrician or to talk to whoever is best ...

Repeated awakenings from the major sleep period or naps with detailed recall of extended and extremely frightening dreams, usually involving threats to survival, security, or self-esteem. The awakenings generally occur during the second half of the sleep period.
On awakening from the frightening dreams, the person rapidly becomes oriented and alert (in contrast to the confusion and disorientation seen in Sleep Terror Disorder and some forms of epilepsy).

The dream experience, or the sleep disturbance ...

Hello everybody,

Since I was thinking I had these fantasies to get hurt or that somebody hurts me and I get care from somebody especially doctors and psych. therapists.

After reading something about an psych. illness I really have (may I aggravate this) I got in therapy aggravating my problems - I went to hospital .... during that time I read about this facticious disorder, so I know about that fact and got really shocked ...

The great painter and artist Michelangelo may have had Asperger's syndrome, researchers say.

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Here are some books on this topic, feel free to add to the list if you feel a book can benefit someone.

1. Verbal Abuse Survivors Speak Out
Author: Patricia Evans

2. You Can't Say That to Me: Stopping the Pain of Verbal Abuse: An Eight-Step Program
Author: Suzette H. Elgin

3. Teen Torment: Overcoming verbal abuse at home and at school.
Author: Patricia Evans

4. Verbal Abuse
Author: Grace Ketterman

5. The Verbally Abusive ...

Hello everyone

I am new to this forum, I was sexually abused when I was fourteen and have not really recoverd from this, I still do not trust men and have allowed this to take over my life, I have done certain things to hurt myself and never really felt proud of who I am... I am now in my early fourties and have fought a battle to get here. I have seen several Therapists ...

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