We lived in Africa. I was about 10 the first time a mortar hit our home. Father was away, leaving me, mother and 2 sisters. They cried - but I didn't 'cos I had an automatic shotgun and spare rounds. I realized they really were trying to kill us, I hated them. Soviet RPG7's, recoiless rifles, Stalin...
Hi- this is my first post on this forum. I found it looking for some place to talk about this disorder other than social media (although this might still count as social media? I don't know where forums fall on the spectrum. Anyways- not relevant). I've been diagnosed with DID for three years now, a...
Hello there. Could you please read this, and answer if it is familiar or not. Do any of you have a psychological network of people, groups, gods, demons, angels, and organisations that you communicate with in your mind? A kind of phenomenon where your own mind is a playing field for the thoughts of ...
I have watched the worst kinds of porn as the title says. Like, every kind. I ###$ up bad. I even made fakes of people I know. I feel immense guilt and shame and I should. I know this will always be a part of my past (I'm done now), but ###$ that hurts. I feel like I don't deserve happiness or a lov...
I’m worried about loosing my parent generation across my immediate family soon, too. Their parents are dead, and the funerals happened in the last decade. The economy is in chaos, and I’m not going to inherit very much at all. The government is in revolutionary chaos, and I’m both old and not at all...
Most people over forty already have set answers to situations that arise in the normal course of a day, and almost no one thinks they’re required to explain their reasons for anything, not that people as a rule are required to do so. Situations can be oddball, inappropriate, or difficult, and everyo...
Most think all I do all day is babble, and some very religious people I know think I blather so much that I might have been present at the Tower of Babel, but they’re hiding the fact that they think that from me, because they don’t want me to start thinking that I have my foot in their door to talk ...
Normally, I’d just say what was on my mind, using complete sentences to the best of my ability, but over the course of my life I’ve found that first, there’s a big difference between composing on paper or a typewriter, in which case you can spend hours thinking over your work and also have the abili...
So, I’ve already read the “ancient texts”, meaning Sigmund Freud, and I’ve carefully payed through the Manual of Statistical and Diagnostic Practice. But I’m still not sure what the names of the various syndromes or symptoms actually mean. The APA’s introductory book does clearly state that they don...