The content outlines a complex medical journey involving a patient with multiple pulmonary issues and past mistreatment within the healthcare system. The patient is preparing for a vital doctor's appointment, aiming to use meticulous documentation of their medical history to advocate for appropriate care while managing the challenges posed by a coercive ex-partner and a tumultuous environment.
The author contrasts sophisticated narcissists with unsophisticated antisocial individuals, highlighting the predictability of the former versus the chaotic nature of the latter. While a narcissist's manipulative strategies can be navigated, antisocial behavior leads to relentless chaos and exhaustion. Ultimately, the author prefers dealing with strategy over unpredictability, emphasizing survival amidst turmoil.
The content discusses the detrimental effects of coercive control disguised as care in relationships. When someone ignores your boundaries, insisting on their version of support, it reveals their need for dominance rather than genuine concern. Recognizing such patterns is crucial, and setting firm boundaries is necessary for emotional well-being.
This essay delves into the author's personal encounter with suicide and the inadequacy of mental health services. It highlights dysfunctional families and toxic friendships as factors driving individuals to suicide. The author emphasizes that human treatment of each other, not just chemical imbalances, is at the core of the crisis, and provides unconventional resources for support.
I wrote a song yesterday describing my suffering. As usual, when I sleep, my mind sorts through the problems of the day, including problems I never realized I had. When I woke from my sleep, playing in my head was a line from the Bible...”Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live”. Suffer? In that … Continue reading Dealing with Pain and Narcissism: A Critical Analysis
Self-centered people fail to think ahead and are only concerned with their comfort-level in the present. I am repeatedly told I am different from everyone else and should stop expecting people to be like me. I am tired of that being used as an excuse by others to deny me what I need. Let's look … Continue reading The Golden Rule…it’s NOT just for Kids!
Do we get what we deserve? I am sick and tired of the 'just think positive' people. I am tired of being told I chose my shitty, scapegoat life before I was born or that I agreed to it as a child in order to survive. No being would choose abuse. No child would agree … Continue reading Sick and Tired
How what most consider just a problem can actually be traumatic...and one person's possible solution Trauma-informed therapy by therapists trained in trauma processing is a relatively new treatment modality. There are those of us who are 62 and older who have never had this type of therapy available to us. And, unless we have money … Continue reading The Elderly and Complex PTSD
The reality of the discarded elderly Amanda Quick Healing I so resonate with this philosophy of being. Unfortunately, it has always backfired on me to show up in the world this way. People are put off by me living my life as an example and celebrating everyone else. The goalpost is always moved every time … Continue reading No Good Deed goes Unpunished
The Social Experiments Conducted by Someone with Complex PTSD Many sufferers of Complex PTSD got that way by trusting too much and too soon as a survival mechanism. One would think survival would depend upon the opposite—keeping one's guard up and trusting no one. The first example is part of the 'fawn' response—presenting oneself as … Continue reading Is it Safe, yet?
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