Hello everyone, I'm hoping I can connect with someone dealing with the same situation. After I watched Harris Harrington's dpdr program a few years back everything he said clicked with me. I lived half of my life pretending that my family was normal until I realized it was dysfunctional and...

Hello, to all -- I hope I get a chance to become supported, as well as read and hear your stories and situations too; come to support you with my wisdom and experience as well. In short, I'll post one of my select (and most recent) bad day(s) accounts, which I type up during and afterward...

Me and my boyfriend have been together more than 3 years, today (valentines day) we agreed to go out to dinner when I got off work, I politely asked for only two things before I left for work: "dress fancy, and don't consume any alcohol". The reason I asked these two things I because he has a...

I know that everyone is probably sick of these kinds of questions/threads, but I am feeling very, very alone and (you guessed it!) need some reassurance. Or, maybe I'm actually crazy and you'll tell me that... Long story short: A few years ago, my mother (and I know this is fucked up) thought...

From wikipedia: Have you ever bonded with someone who bullied you? Maybe as a child did you become a "friend" with a bully and try to diffuse hostile situations with him/her? Were your parents emotionally manipulative, malicious and controlling? Were you ever in an abusive relationship? What...

This sums up my theory of why many of us from abusive childhoods have all manner of mental and physical problems, not just DP/DR. This is me to a "t" -- I have many medical problems, serious ones. Too many. I count anxiety, depression and DP/DR as part of these. If abuse can affect your...

http://www.amazon.com/Reconciliation-Healing-Thich-Nhat-Hanh/dp/1935209647/ref=sr_1_11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379739264&sr=1-11&keywords=thich+nhat+hanh+books Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child - 2010 by Thich Nhat Hanh Summary from Amazon: "An exciting contribution to the growing trend of...