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Finally getting the courage in my mid-thirties to get therapy for the sexual abuse I experienced in my early teens. Wish I'd done it sooner. In my early fifties now and pretty sure…

Here is a little meditation I wrote a while ago on my depression and my medication that still rings true for me. https://dhubris.livejournal.com/14447.html I don't know about your …

From past experience, about four months after I've tapered off anti-depressants I'll want to die. It'll take about a year to recover once I'm back on them. But that's me. What work…

Have you considered that you may fall into the ASD range of Asperger? I mention this because what you described ticks a couple of the common traits. Understanding yourself better c…

> He keeps saying over and over how he could never tell anyone because it would get out. But that’s his false axiom. Talking would’ve been the only way to find release. There are h…

Getting therapy. Reckon I could have saved myself ten or fifteen years of suffering.

> How saintly of you to never have such a lurid thought. I have lots of lurid thoughts. I also have enough respect and self control to not blurt them out. I've managed to interact …

Good sleep hygiene definitely contributes to better mental health. Not bi-polar, but struggle with depression. After my last crash a few years ago, I was left curled up on the floo…

I similarly have a strong startle reflex. I hate open office spaces, and particularly office spaces where my desk has me without my back to a wall. People moving around behind me i…

Medication is only one tool, and often needs to be used in combination with other tools, but people are always looking for the quick fix. Dealing with some of this shit can take ha…