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People use to tell me that ulcers is something you get from "years of worrying and stress", so "dont worry about it, its not going to happen to you"... what these people dont realize is that I have had years of worrying and stress. I cant even remember a time when I wasnt somewhat stressed or worried. Just too many times in my life.... watching someone with ulcer on TV, I started to worry, because, ...

Paranoia vs. hypervigilance, whats the difference? I'm just asking because my dose of seroquel was increased to 600mg. Used to be 200mg but my pdoc wants to see whether or not this increase will help the psychosis. Ever since I reached to 500mg I have been getting very anxious and have a rapid heart beat. I get scared and start paying attention to my surroundings. I start to think that things around the room are ...

You can see in my other post that I strongly suspect my wife has BPD. I realize that I can't "fix" her, and she has to want to fix herself... She has agreed to get therapy, which is only a small first step, but it's a start.

But I guess what I'm asking (from both Non's and BPD's), what are some does and don'ts while they are working on things.. Basically, I know I can't ...

I've just been reading different threads in different forums and has anybody else picked up on the fact that a number of posts/threads that are coming from the 'loved one(s) of the person with a mental illness' can make some pretty offensive comments??

I'm not sure how I feel about that.

It goes to show why it can be so hard sometimes to trust the people close to us with what we're going through/dealing with. ...

Hi.I'm a TA in a year five class at a primary school and have a9yr old boy with aspergers in there. He has a lot of issues and I am finding it difficult to help him as he will not stop laughing in my face when I try and talk to him. I have a good few years experience and am aware of how to word things but I can't get anywhere as he won't ...

I think the general theory is that to be able to experience one emotion, you have to be able to experience the opposite emotion.

My n wife can't experience anything along that middle part of the emotion wheel like joy or sadness. So that also means she can't expereince love, because that's a combination of joy & trust. or optimism.

The closest she can get to love is trust & acceptance combined with a strong ...

I binge eat a lot.

It used to be around my period, which mainly it still is but is getting more and more, I am putting more and more weight on.

People think I eat normally as I hide it they must think something though as I am getting fatter and fatter even though am on constant 'diets'.

Now it's also down to tiredness but I can't go to sleep as I have a 2yr ...

Hey all, I'm a teenage male and I'm confused about my sexuality.

When I was young all of my crushes were on girls, and I had quite a few of them. I continued for years as straight until one day I simply got the thought that I was gay into my mind.

Now, I seem to be attracted to men of the same sex when dwelling over these thoughts, which is often, but when I ...

Regarding some of the posts on "is it easier to bed a BPD girl?"

I know I'm new here BUT...I have one thing I've gotta say after reading some of the comments saying stuff like "all girls, disordered or not ,are fair game". (in many immature mens unending quests to bed as many girls as possible, like its a hobby).

It made me wonder when I read stuff like that if you guys were even ...

I eat crackers in the dark.

I am made of black and have a bright red scar.

I snarl at shadows in the night.

you will never see me in the same room twice.