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I am a first time poster and quite frankly, lost. For years, I have been dealing with this and before I kick the bucket, I would love to know why certain things keep happening despite my best efforts to break old patterns.

I call it the debbie doormat issue. It transcends romantic and friendship relationships. I treat people the way I want to be treated - with respect, consideration, kindness etc. I am a nice ...

I have had a sudden revelation of my live-in partners Narc behavoir and seen it for what it is over the past week. Whilst I feel relief to actually see the inconsistencies of his madness and to finally realise why I, the stong empathetic person felt like I was going crazy after 8 years of this, I would like to have some of my needs met, having poured care and love into the man for ...

My ex N just keeps passing by my work... today we cross each other in the road where my work is located... I did my best not to look and pretended to ignore her... I did notice that she rotated her body slightly towards her right but her head was not turned away... as though trying to make it more apparent that she is ignoring me or not even acknowledging my existence... it hurt but ...

I’ve been trying to write this for over 5 hours now, but I'm finding it so hard to write & not dissociate or just get confused. Sorry if it doesn’t make much sense, I didn’t want anyone to look over it before I posted because I want to do it myself.

I’ve been really struggling lately, as I was inside for almost 2 weeks, then with memory loss, really bad dissociation & also severe anxiety. ...

Hi
Once again needing the understanding of those who have been through this.
It has been two weeks since I saw my ex and I asked to see my daughter and she walked away from me.
Pretty much three months have passed since the breakup and I have only seen my daughter once.
I called her yesterday on her home phone so she would not know it was me.
We had a talk for about ...

Ive never wrote anything before. im remembering things that happened to me when i was younger. I cant sleep at night. I keep having flashbacks of what my sister did to me. why are these things coming out now. i love my sister, should i hate her, shes the only one i can talk to. she never mentioned what she did to me ever, i dont get why now all of these things are spilling ...

No dignity here folks. I am back to day 1.

So I have this really critical grandmother. That tends to criticize, nit pick on everything. She's done it all my life to me & so many other members of the family. But thing is, shes like a strong authority figure in the family so no one ever really stands up to her. They say it behind her back, but never to her face about how they really feel. Today it came to a huge head…she ...

Is it only me or are here others who doesn't really want to get better?

I make up excuses for myself all the time, though it doesn't feel like excuses, but I've realized that that might just be what they are.
I have doubts about getting better. Maybe it isn't that great being social, being out there. Maybe this is just who I am, maybe this is how I'm supposed to be and how I'm ...

Been about 2 years now that my dad has been acting like this.... basically he lost his job and ever since then he will scream all the time "NO" "NO" "You cost me my job" etc, he will bother me when im home by knocking on my door as loud as he can and does it all the time and and cry a real lot. He also stays in his bed all day. My mom ...