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Please forgive me; but ... I NEED TO VENT!!!!!

The Devil is doing his mighty best to get me down further than I've ever been. And I've was just a shell of a person when I got away from my very abusive ex. But this is different.

My depression is lasting longer and I feel more severe. When I get too upset or or feel like I've done wrong; I apologize but my mind goes into my "other personality" (not diagnosed but in my head I become who my ex turned me into; THAT me had to deal with every type of abuse, and I believe it's my brain trying to protect me. However; that me; wants to die! And the last few months I was with him I would wake up praying, "God, please let this day be the day help don't get here in time and he kills me, I can't handle anymore. Every night I'd pray for God to take me in my sleep.

Anyway, I have been waiting to get into the place I got help several years ago for 6 weeks now. Originally I was told the wait list was around 2 weeks. Then a month! I am beyond frustrated. I gotta call in every Wednesday and I will tomorrow. Last week I asked how many more ahead of me. The lady who answered didn't know. Tomorrow I'm not sure I can hold my tongue. I SO SO want to tell them to go *U*K themselves, but as a Christian lady, I know I won't. But, I'm gonna ask to speak with someone in charge.
Okay, also I have really been looking forward to going to see my son and his high-school sweetheart at 11 years on Sunday. Making it "our Thanksgiving ". Although we had planned to go for Chinese Buffet. 😋
My son finally got his identity straightened out and got a job and will be working Sunday. Plus I signed up for a Thanksgiving meal for 2 box and pick that up Saturday. Now, I'm not even sure I have a ride now. This morning I borrowed my friends car to go to the next town over hoping to see Momma (a different very long story) but couldn't. So I went to my Storage (also used by my son) to pick up a few things and came back. I had made me a smoothie of strawberries, blueberries, honey and Flavored antioxidant filled coconut water. Well, thinking I wanted to save the rest for in the morning I unscrewed the bottom of my mini blender! I'M AN IDIOT 🤣! I knew better!! Unscrewing the bottom and ... there is no other bottom. So dark berry juice and yumminess went splashing down my sweater front, jeans, white Nikes and over almost everything a good foot distance around me! After thinking ... I'm an idiot, I tell myself, Guess I'm not saving it for the morning! After that's cleaned up is when I find out I might not have a ride to go visit my son. THEN... my friend brings me the laptop that (had been delivered earlier) momma got me so I can finish writing my book. I was a good girl and finished doing what I was doing (dusting) then sat down to open it. First thing I see is that the screen has many scuff marks (scratches), and I'm thinking; they have got to be kidding. Cause it looks like a used one. But I take it out and find the instruction sheet. They sent a kids tablet! Looks the same, definitely not the 128 GB ordered.
BUT; before I got out of that toxic horrible relationship I thought God wasn't answering my prayers. Later on I realized he had been answering them, just not how I hoped. Instead of my life ending by my Ex or God calling me home, he answered by: Making me strong enough to endure. I had told him ...
"I'm can't take no more, I need help, I have no life left in me" . He gave me the strength and I made a TRUE friend that had once been a stranger.

Thank you for reading this long winded rant. I could go on but I've complained enough.

Stay strong

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How Childhood Attachments Influence Your Adult Relationships

Have you ever wondered how your childhood experiences shape your current interactions? The attachments formed during your formative years are a significant piece in determining the quality and nature of how your adult relationships function.

The Four Main Attachment Styles

Attachment theory helps us understand how early childhood experiences shape our relationships throughout life. This concept illuminates the impact of caregiver interactions on a child’s emotional development and future interpersonal dynamics.

At the core of attachment theory are four distinct styles. These patterns, formed in our earliest years, often persist into adulthood, influencing our romantic partnerships, friendships, and professional relationships. Understanding attachment styles and learning about your own relational patterns -- often done with the help of an experienced therapist -- can be a powerful tool for starting to understand how to navigate your interpersonal relationships.

Secure Attachment

According to attachment theory, secure attachment often develops when caregivers consistently respond to a child’s needs with attunement, warmth, and care. These children tend to grow up feeling safe, loved, and supported, fostering a strong sense of self-worth and the ability to form healthy relationships. Securely attached individuals typically approach adult relationships with confidence, trust, and emotional openness.

Anxious Attachment

Conversely, inconsistent or unpredictable caregiving can lead to an anxious attachment style. Children who experience this may develop a heightened need for closeness and reassurance, often coupled with a fear of abandonment. As adults, they may struggle with feelings of insecurity in relationships. It may lead to seeking validation and experiencing intense emotional responses to perceived threats of rejection.

Avoidant Attachment

This is characterized by a tendency to maintain emotional distance from others. Individuals with this attachment style often struggle with intimacy and trust. They may avoid emotional closeness, fearing vulnerability or rejection. A person with avoidant attachment may experience relationships at arm's distance, and will often push for distance when the other comes toward intimacy.

Disorganized Attachment 

This is a more complex pattern that stems from unresolved trauma. This is also known as anxious-avoidant, which basically combines the two above attachment styles. People with disorganized attachment exhibit inconsistent behaviors, often switching between seeking closeness and intimacy, while also avoiding it. This can lead to confusion, fear, and difficulty regulating emotions. If you've experience a "push-pull" dynamic in your relationships, this may be a sign of disorganized attachment. At times you may want to become closer and more intimate, but then the fear of rejection or abandonment pushes you away again. This can become a destructive vicious cycle for relationships, leading to self-fulfilling prophecies and sabotage of relationships by acting out in response to perceived threats of rejection or distance, or even pushing away care and love that is there when it feels too scary to take in.

How Childhood Attachments Impact Adult Relationships

Whether secure or insecure, childhood attachment patterns often become a blueprint for interactions with partners later in life, and in how you dynamically navigate romantic relationships.

People with secure attachments tend to more naturally navigate towards more supportive and fulfilling relationships with trust, intimacy, and emotional support. While no relationship is perfect and all relationships have their struggles, secure attachments are more likely to communicate more effectively, resolve conflicts constructively, and maintain strong bonds with their partners even when issues show up. On the other hand, those with anxious attachments may struggle with insecurities such as jealousy and possessiveness. On a deep level, they may fear abandonment, which can lead to more controlling behaviors -- often having the effect of pushing their partner away in the process.

Individuals with avoidant attachment may struggle to form deep emotional connections or trust others. They may distance themselves from their partners, fearing emotional vulnerability or dependence. In contrast, individuals with disorganized attachment may show inconsistent behaviors, which can cause confusion, fear, and difficulty with emotional regulation. This can impact your relationships, from controlling behaviors to difficulty forming stable connections. This often happens when someone craves the closeness and intimacy of a secure relationship, but when they start to achieve that it feels threatening and scary to be so close (where they can be hurt again, whether from abuse, neglect, loss, or otherwise) so they go back to the safety of the distance. It can make it hard to know where you or your partner stands in a relationship, and can create a constant sense of instability in the relationship.

Developing More Secure Relationships

As you reflect on your relationships and relational patterns, it may be worthwhile to think about how your early experiences may have shaped your adult interactions. While childhood attachments give a sense of how your dynamics tend to operate, they are possible to modify and reshape to find more of a sense of security.

#Relationships #Anxiety #Trauma

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Hi, my name is DeepinHuniBeez6. I want to

Talk about sexual abuse of the male child by his Mother/Sister who is the adult. I'm now 43 but was abused from 3 until 26. And I have serious issues and need to release and heal. Nobody in my family will help because Many of them have and still accept and in some ways want the wrongs to continue.

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On that spiritual flow

I’ve been waking up to joint pain almost every day this week and I was already aware of this reality as I have been going to a rheumatologist for nearly a year and have not been able to find the right treatment for my ailment. I woke up sad today, thinking about how I’m missing out on key opportunities for my career and even social engagements as I cannot travel very far unless I am in a car. But still my body will feel fatigue. And it sucks. I come from a heavy trauma background and unfortunately I realized through the use of drugs (that I am no longer taking) that none of what happened to me was ever my fault. The abuse had nothing to do with me. To end this conversation, instead of focusing on the pain, I’m trying to see what I’m learning from this horrible experience of having an autoimmune disease. My conclusion is that, from a spiritual angle, I am learning that I am resilient and I am learning the strength that I have to not give up on life despite my circumstances. I’ve become more spiritual recently and never would thought of things this way earlier this year. Whoever you are, you are strong and you will get through your disease. I believe in you. Much love, Kai.

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Is it abuse

To destroy someone's property and yell down the entire street with the door open over the smell of Leaves, I got a 12 dollar candle pretty much the only thing I got for myself, and this ensued about three days ago, had a breakdown at the grocery store cause I'm broke, and a 24 dollar bottle of PJ's fell n broke before I got it home, all in all 36 dollars, I'm so tired I'm discouraged to caregive, then last night he yelled at my kid hyperly and loudly about Trump, talking fast for an hour, plus there was such a big mess multiple times each day, and so much loud tv shit and organic sugarless baking that its making me sick, my kid yelled at me a tiny bit, I feel like not eating for weeks, and its interfering with my caregiving, I have no one to call but to walk to the cops, and an appointment once a week, can't afford almost anything and must pay my credit minimums, dear God please get me through, do you want suicide stats and advocacy again, cause its pointless, I have my dogs, thanks, just down, and I have food, thanks

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Okay, I will try

I'm sorry, I'm not a native English speaker, but I wanna share with someone my thoughts and emotions about having BPD.
I'm trying hard to become more stable. Unfortunately, I can't get the psychotherapy for a lot of reasons.
I guess it's going more easy to handle with as I getting older. But I can't love. I feel so fragile. It's always the story about me black and white thoughts because of my fear of abandonment and abuse in my past. I don't know. This text is not complicated topic. But I guess, it's not bad. For a first time.
Thank you

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Learning emotions

Started learning about my emotions on the advice of my therapist last week. Using an emotion wheel and app to start gain some emotional knowledge. Hating it. Today I bounced around like a bl**dy pinball through half the negative emotions known to man... I hate that there is something inside me so changeable and unpredictable. On top of all that I have no understanding of how to communicate my feelings so every attempt blows up in my face and hurts the people I'm talking to. F*ck this sh*t.

#PTSDSupportAndRecovery #Abuse #PTSD #Depression #Anxiety #emotionalimmaturity

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i need help, i have no where to go

I have been married for nearly a decade, I have an 8-year-old daughter, and my husband's routine involves paying for naked women to view them nude on various chat applications. This behavior originated at the onset of change, the last instance he hit me was a year ago regarding the same issue.

He told me that time that the cause of his actions was due to my touching his phone, my going through apps to monitor him, if i do this again and check on him, it will be the end of us, then he will divorce me verbally and send me back to my parents’ home, and will hit me much more than previously, humiliating me in front of his entire family and will mistreat me in front of everyone in the house.

They never accepted me when I subtly indicated to my parents that I didn’t want to stay with this guy. They claimed we couldn't pay for you, your daughter, and her tuition, and they advised me to handle my issues and adjust to living a married life. I shared these details with my mother-in-law, and she repeated the same things to me.

I believed he would grow up to be a good person and a good Muslim as time passed, but I was mistaken. Whenever I inquired about his behavior, asking him why he felt the need to act this way, I reminded him that I am his wife and pleaded with him not to betray me. I expressed these feelings repeatedly, but he responded with abuse. He physically tortured and struck me, sometimes using his hands, other times a wire or piece of wood. I have evidence of explicit conversations and proof of when he harmed me. I hoped he would become a changed man.

Divorce documents were obtained through corruption for a reason; he wanted to go to America. He contracted a marriage with her boss, and they needed to create fake divorce papers for us through bribery, as in America, only one wife is recognized.

I have a friend in Canada who can offer me a job and a place to stay. I’m unsure about how to reach there stealthily, so I need to find job application links, resources that can help me secure a visa, and assist in my travel plans. Currently, I have no money or financial backing.

I have two months to find a way out of here; I can get away during that period, or it will be too late as my in-laws are covering the costs of my IVF treatment. A transfer is planned for two months from now, and I have frozen eggs stored at that hospital. I no longer desire that since I prefer not to remain here. I can't inform his parents because they have already spent 23 lacs on my treatment/process, they want me to conceive through IVF. If I don't want to be with this guy, why should I undergo IVF? I'm scared to reveal this truth to anyone as no one would comprehend my situation.