Published on 12, July, 2020
It's oddly comforting to read your words (please don't take that the wrong way, I wouldn't wish suffering on anyone) as I could have easily have written them myself. This weekend was like an eternity of the worst sustained anxiety and despair…
I have OCD. I'm sorry you do as well, it's really horrible and I struggle with it every day. I'm not sure if it's the same for you but I find it exhausting as well and it almost burns me out.
I get the usual like hand washing and if I…
Hello again - thanks for your thoughtful and though-provoking post.
I really like your 'goldfish' metaphor - I often feel that the world outside my little sanctuary is something that I have adapted to 'survive' in, but that it definitely isn't my 'natural…
I've never felt myself to be as innately introverted as my behaviour makes me out to be. The assumption, even from professionals such as therapists, that it's all down to being innately asocial or socially phobic really frustrates me. I wish more people…
That's a really fascinating idea, and I certainly think there may be something to it. At the end of the day, even the obviously sensory stims are done for their effect on our mind one way or another, and it's well known now in cognitive science that thinking…
Hi, I’m new here. Sort of.
I’ve been dipping in and out of this forum for the last 5/6years, usually only reading what others have written rather than actually participating myself. I find socialising, even online, very difficult, but I’m trying…
The dreams that I used to get when I was on Mirtazapine were definitely the oddest, some of them seeming like they had lasted for days, and extremely memorable afterwards - I wrote a couple of them down, as they amazed me so much (I very rarely remember…
Yeah, Blueray, I’m with you that you don’t need to be wealthy to be happy, but you do need to eat, have somewhere to live etc. I think my problem at the moment is I can’t quite work out what would be the best lifestyle for me. Definitely improving since…
Various people kept suggesting I was autistic about 10yrs ago so I very slowly began reading about it and then did some of the tests online and scored VERY high. So I began to read about aitism in women.
Just over a year ago I decided that my 2018 goal…
Welcome, Jason.
Yes, having a touch of "imposter syndrome" is perfectly normal from what I have seen over the past few years, and it does take some time for all the repercussions to work themselves out, especially when there are years of events from the…