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granitefalcon26 said:Have more sex, and you won't feel so blue or go down those rabbit holes trying to diagnose every little symptom you find.😂🤣
Roger Morgan4 said:True, that might be the case now, but I wasn't even four years old back then, so what I'm really trying to get at is why I felt that way even as a child.
Roger Morgan4 said:For as long as I can remember, I’ve had this intense desire to stay covered up; I never wanted anyone to see me without clothes except for my immediate family. My earliest memories of this feeling stem from those frequent trips to the ER because of stomach issues. Even as a little kid—maybe four years old—I’d end up at the local hospital at least once a month because my stomach was hurting so badly. And, naturally, the doctor would ask my dad to help undress me so he could perform an exam. I felt so incredibly uncomfortable and exposed every single time. That feeling just persisted through my entire childhood and has stuck with me all the way into adulthood. By the time I hit puberty, I wouldn't even want to walk around in just a bra or without shorts in front of my mom and sister, which felt strange since neither of them seemed to struggle with anything like that.
I can certainly wrap my head around how these feelings might evolve later in life—you know, things involving body image or self-acceptance—but I truly cannot grasp why I felt this way when I was only four years old, just a tiny, fragile child. I haven't been able to find anything online that describes this specific experience, and I’m genuinely curious about what might be causing it. Perhaps someone said something to me back then that triggered this fear? I'd love to know if anyone else has gone through something similar.
lonejackal9 said:Look at this—even here, you can't even send a private message.
Kenneth Martin said:I’m currently working my way through a book by the Buddhist teacher Richard.
He argues that we all share the exact same fundamental nature of mind and spirit, and that the various psychological disturbances we face don't actually touch that core essence. He suggests that if we can just become aware of this, we can master these struggles, heal ourselves, and finally find happiness.
To be honest, his descriptions of the mind feel eerily accurate to me.
There is a way out.
shamantrixx said:A practical take—but unfortunately, it's completely off base.
shamantrixx said:If arguing that were even half as easy as claiming philosophies would just vanish overnight...
Edward Flores4 said:Wait, so throwing someone behind bars isn't "judging" them?
I don't think God has anything to do with it... honestly, there's an equal amount of "evil" in all of us. If things go sideways enough, any one of us could end up being a "killer." And if God even exists, He’s a much bigger killer than any human could ever be—which makes Him pretty hypocritical for "forbidding" others from doing exactly what He does. But hey, maybe nobody ever told Him that you don't raise kids with commandments, you raise them by setting an example. 🙄
Edward Flores4 said:Wait, so throwing someone behind bars isn't "judging" them?
I don't think God has anything to do with it... honestly, there's an equal amount of "evil" in all of us. If things go sideways enough, any one of us could end up being a "killer." And if God even exists, He’s a much bigger killer than any human could ever be—which makes Him pretty hypocritical for "forbidding" others from doing exactly what He does. But hey, maybe nobody ever told Him that you don't raise kids with commandments, you raise them by setting an example. 🙄
Edward Flores4 said:So, are you saying His whole purpose is just to oversee "everything" from the sidelines without actually stepping in?
Gregory Wells6 said:I had a conversation with my daughter’s psychiatrist the other day—we were diving into the whole borderline personality disorder topic—and she made an interesting point. She mentioned that you can't really pin down a BPD diagnosis with absolute certainty until someone hits about 25 years old. Apparently, that's when all those developmental stages finally wrap up—you know, the physiological stuff and the hormonal shifts too. She went into much more technical detail than I could follow—mentioning things like neurotransmitters and brain myelin sheath maturation—but that was the gist of it. She also noted how some folks in America tend to over-diagnose it even in very young children; she actually shared a chilling case where a toddler as young as two and a half was labeled with it, and they ended up medicating them so heavily that it actually caused their death. For now, she’s ruled out BPD for my daughter, suggesting instead that she's dealing with depression and self-destructive tendencies. So, I suppose I'm just left waiting until she turns 25 to see what the official verdict will be.
steelranger31 said:Is there actually any help out there? Like, anything to stop the hypersensitivity or that constant loop of overanalyzing everything from yesterday to ten years ago? Personally, I don't think so. It feels like something you just have to live with until the end... like some incurable, terminal disease.
There’s "help" in the short term, but we all know what that looks like: spiraling through bottles of wine or beer, or chasing shallow relationships. A day is only 24 hours, but the average person goes through something like 3 million thoughts an hour (not that anyone's actually counted, but still)...
If your brain is wired wrong, hahaha, it's really just a matter of time before everything hits the fan. Total breakdown, madness, alienation, deep depression, mania, dysfunction, pure hatred, and finally... well, you know how it ends. Straight to hell. :|
Donna Sullivan7 said:In slang, we're talking about that red line—that borderline between neurosis and psychosis. So, "borderline personality"—their moods and emotions are just all over the place, totally unstable. They don't really have a solid sense of who they are, which makes their emotions super volatile and their behavior unpredictable and impulsive. They live with this constant, heavy sense of emptiness and depression... and they can be prone to manipulative suicide attempts.
Honestly, a patient like that is a therapist's worst nightmare because once they get into that state, it’s incredibly hard to fix. You've got people dealing with chronic depression, deep-seated addiction to drugs or booze, marriages that are completely trashed, and often a pattern of being hypersexual, jumping from one bed to the next. You see them—the "overpass jumpers" and those sad souls sitting on park benches, fingers interlaced like the seams on a football, carrying these deep psychological scars that just won't heal. Their ego is so fragile, so brittle... they spend all their energy playing parts, trying desperately to be anything except who they actually are. They crave intimacy more than anything, yet they push away anyone who tries to get close. They're rarely satisfied, drifting from one specialist to another, hoping someone will finally hand them a magic pill to fix their shattered feelings and that hollow void inside. They'll follow any guru or messianic type—any charismatic loser promising a quick fix for the pain. Usually, it ends with a premature trip to
jail or a psych ward. When they come out, they look fine on the surface, which gives everyone hope... right up until the next crash, whether it's real or just in their heads. But one thing is for sure, they never actually change...