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Hi you might be interested in this. There are studies giving some evidence that a derangement of various dopamind pathwayz in the brain being the cause of BPD. Dopamine is the brain chuemical that gets released that causes us to feel pleasure. Their are several foods that will invariabl cause you to (increase) release this pleasure causing chemical, blackberries being the best one, but also blueberries, and black grapes and concord grape juice but not ...

I had another dentist visit yesterday. Second time in a year the same tooth needed repairing, and while they were repairing it there was another cavity lurking in there.

I am SO pissed off and fed up at the effects of bulimia. I'm not even bulimic anymore and still have to live with the crap it's caused each day.

All of my teeth are patched up. Fillings on fillings on fillings, my teeth always hurt. ...

I'm having a really hard time lately with the scummy feeling, like there's dirt on my body that can't be washed off. It makes me want to crawl out of my skin knowing that there's nothing I can physically do to remove how it feels.

Pretty sure other people go through this, too, so what do you do about it? Any pointers?

Well, I don't suppose "Normal" is the right word, considering there are five people in my head. :) But within the realm of DID, is it normal for alters to reveal themselves and then just ignore me? I met my first alter this past Friday (this is VERY new for me), and met the other three yesterday.

Prior to meeting them like this (I wrote Vincent a ...

For years I was completely incapable of feeling anger, I had completely numbed myself to that emotion along with many other emotions, although I was still hypersensitive and easily triggered. However, with time I began to feel my anger, and I didn't like it. I hate that emotion and it scares me to feel it. Therapists have pointed out to me that I am very angry, however, I don't know how to express it and ...

Just one more random thought. In the "cleverest" thread, some mentioned my experience. I thought it was a kind compliment but as always, my mind raced to see if it was true. "Self is this possible, is this true?" And it struck me.....even though I claim to experience certain things in my own way, I might not be experiencing them at all. For example, guilt for some is "A" but for me it is ...

I have a friend that I think may have Munchausen syndrome. She has been "sick" for the majority of her life. I've never doubted her until recently. She told me that she was having her colon removed because it is dead. Last week she was rushed to the hospital because of stomach pain. I went to see her and when the doctors told her about her condition, she exaggerated what the doctor said to anyone ...

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I just finished watching an action movie and after that I got two new alters that see reality as a movie. Basically everything they do, follows the rules of movies - physics and all. And that's when the problems started.

Other one hit my face with my cellphone because she thought that I was a bad guy! It really hurted and it teared my skin a tiny bit. (I didn't know cellphones can be ...

Perhaps an odd question; but it came to me while responding to another thread just now...

For those who are bisexual and sadistic/sociopathic/psycopathic/AsPD/what have you, does your desire to harm and destroy differ at all between the sexes?

How do you feel/expell your aggressions towards men?
How do you feel/expell your aggressions towards women?

Do you find that men & women trigger you differently?
If so, how so?

Do you maintain your sadistic, harmful, destructive ...

Every morning I wake up feeling worse than the day before. Most of the time I have this anxious/frightened/guilty feeling as if I have done something horribly wrong and I am awaiting punishment. Is anyone else familiar with that feeling? It's horrible and I can't make it go away.

I alternate between feeling like I am hidden under inches of ice (being numb), and getting triggered and feeling like everything is life or death. When ...