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Academic Study: Virtual Reality and Mental Wellbeing

My brother wants to throw me out of the house my dad lives in;as do i.to supposedly take care of him. Which theirs no one to watch him at all. He wants me in a halfway house cause I have PTSD/DID. Or multiple personality. I got this from my family growing up, and no one caring what happened to me. I'm scared I won't get my pills I need, or have them stolen. I'm not ...

I was wondering if anyone could help me on this. My counselor wants me to work on therapeutic visualization as a coping technique for my OCD and anxiety. Since I'm heavily into anime, she suggested I incorporate that into my 'place'. Let me explain: Basically she talked me through a visualization of a peaceful meadow, trying to get me to calm myself down. You know, the typical laying in the grass, hearing birds chirp, that ...

Lists direct ways of coping with ptsd symptoms in the full article:

https://www.ptsd.va.gov/gethelp/coping_ ... ctions.asp

Hi all,

I'm a 27 year old gay male and I've been dating someone who claims to be bisexual for about a year now. I've done a lot of personal growth over the past couple months, in particular to facing a lot of the shame I grew up with about being gay and all the implications that has had on my development as an adult.

Fortunately, I've been able to answer a lot of questions ...

I have an appointment with a psychiatrist on August 6th, and I think it should go without saying that I'm nervous af. What should I do to help myself relax and not be scared?

To begin, I'm new to this forum and new to the understanding that I do not have control over my anxiety. At 46, I'm also realizing I've secretly dealt with issues my whole life that aren't normal (and that they're probably related to my anxiety issues). Since grade school, I have had periods where I've dealt with pica, excoriation, stealthily counting/drumming patterns with my fingers and feet... but nothing compares to the earworms.

When I ...

Hi all,my name is Neo but you can call me Neo for short...heh.But let’s get to the point.

For the longest time I’ve been bottling up all my emotions and now I don’t think I can let them out,I’ve tried countless times to make myself cry to let out my emotions but at this point they’re just building up and I don’t know how to let them out,to the point where I feel like I’ll ...

I'm new here, and I don't know if this is the right forum to post this on.
This is going to sound ridiculous but here it goes:

About four years ago, I met in-person an actor from my favorite movie which I am obsessed with. This actor is my favorite character and his character in the movie represents my "ideal" in terms of a romantic partner. This actor in particular is between 30-35 years older ...

Hi there,

Does any have any experience of inner child healing, what they achieved from doing it, how they did it, and how long it took? I've recently identified through therapy and reading up on transactional analysis that my inner child is very damaged and needs lots of attention, which is causing a lot of problems in my adult life.

I've tried to talking to my child each morning and trying to calm them down. ...