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Honestly, some of the things I tell MDs and PhDs makes their chins drop. Why is a one time thing so bleepin traumatic?

I just don't get it.
I thought I had seen it all
Guess not

i have a problem , the visuals, theyre getting more frequent
no auditory anymore though


its mostly seeing things move which i know arent moving, or seeing bugs/rodents that arent really there, sometimes like small moving shadows



wont they please just go away :(

i want to start off with a hello! so i guess i will jump right in. sorry in advance but i know i will ramble, but i have no one to talk to as we have lost all of our friends over the past two years. in 2006 i was diagnosed with I.E.D. met my wife, thought i would never figure out how to control ANY of the ied. couple of years have now gone ...

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So, my ex has been very charming lately when arranging an exchange of last personal belongings that we had of each other's. I even started questioning whether or not I was wrong about him. Maybe it was all me and my fault.

Then, I found out through a mutual friend that he is doing really bad. He's been constantly drunk, has wrecked his car, gotten suspended from work, popping pills like candy...and I felt bad....like ...

I'm a 42 year old male. I have had a turbulent life. Ever since I was a child I have had emotional and social problems. i.e. 1) attempting suicide when I was none 2) drinking when I was twelve 3) Vandalism from eight to fifteen. I have never fit in anywhere except for a time when I hung out with substance abuse users. I have had very few friends over the last 25 years and ...

When your friends are looking for someone to talk to about their problems, how do you usually respond?

For me... Lots of times I have a difficulty understanding my friends situations, but I do know I shouldn't try to make them more down than they already are (lots of times when I am down they are the ones who comfort me) so I usually just reply with "Yeah, I understand you" when in fact I ...

Hi there i was diagionosed with cyclothmic disorder about 7 years ago apperently it is in the family, anyway i have doing so well for so long, but over the last 2 months things have been going down hill and i start having these episodes where i get angry and want to throw things i can blow up at people however i bottle it all up becuase in the line of work that i do ...

them? Or minimize it or excuse it?
Right now I am in a denial mode..gotta say its a lot less stressful than wondering why it had to happen.
Is denial normal?

i just signed up here because recently i've been feeling really messed up, i have nobody i can talk to about it without getting the piss taken out of me probably.. so i'm going to tell you the story, i need to get it off my chest.

apologies for bad grammar and whatnot, but here goes.

i guess it starts off when i'm in school, just started secondary school (age 11-12 i guess?) and it ...