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  1. Ozzy47

    Don't Panic, It's Only Panic!

    By Carrie Starke Imagine driving down the road one day with your window down. You're enjoying a nice breeze and the radio is on. The songs aren't your favorite, but you like them because you know all of the words to almost all of them. Feeling happy and carefree. Then it stops. Everything just...
  2. Ozzy47

    Getting Triggered and What You Can Do

    Getting your "buttons" pushed or getting "triggered" is an opportunity to heal and grow. The more hurts we've endured and the weaker our boundaries, the more reactive we are to people and events. Our triggers - our buttons - are our wounds. Codependents are off the charts when it comes to...
  3. Ozzy47

    How the Mechanisms of Mental Ill-Health Works

    The behavior of the mentally ill patient is not qualitatively different from that of healthy persons or from his own behavior before his illness developed. In fact, the behavior and the thinking of the mentally ill are strange only because they are exaggerated or inappropriate to particular...
  4. Ozzy47

    The Origin Of Every Mental Illness

    You have to find out the meaning of life because you need this important information in order to understand what you must look for when you think, in order to solve your problems, and in order to make the right decisions. If you don't know the meaning of life you don't know what to desire, or...
  5. Ozzy47

    Borderline Personality Disorder and Transference

    Nearly everyone with Borderline Personality Disorder who participates in therapy knows about the phenomenon called transference. Transference occurs when the patient's expectations, desires and feelings are put onto another person, usually the therapist. The types of transference issues the...
  6. PGen98

    How would you handle this situation?

    So I've been somewhat keeping closed off in my few posts so far, not really opening up about myself or why I might have an interest in posting on these forums, so let me start to break that seal just a little bit and ask you all your opinion on something. Let me preface this by saying that I...
  7. Bumblebee202

    Medications

    I have been on Qudapin since the summer and it’s been real hard to not want to end it all x
  8. Naiwen

    Is anyone psychotic?

    I’ve just calmed down today after calling a crisis hotline and doing some therapy exercises, guided meditation, breathing exercises and yoga. So, the slightest question from anyone else, I’d take it as “bossing me around”. Because I’m also paranoid and have BPD, I always take it as a personal...
  9. Azreddeye60

    Took big hit

    Hi everyone, I have something I have to get out....another event. I can say that life has pretty much sucked for me, like trying to walk around in wet cement and if asked if I'd do it all again I'd say hell no everytime. My wife surprised me a couple months ago by agreeing to foster two 5 day...
  10. Eagleheart

    Sick of it all

    I'm so sick of my life. Every day I deny myself food. I don't eat the food I want to eat. Every day I deny myself all of the cigarettes I want to smoke. Every day I deny myself the alcohol I want to drink. My whole life is run by denying myself of the enjoyable things. And I am sick to death of...
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