'snowbell, it's a difficult process.  Many people who have been abused, have a serious problem with this.  They think, if people closest to me took advantage of me, how am I ever to trust a total...|||Gossip Goat, I don't think your professor is allowed to ask such a question.  It's inappropriate.  If you know for sure he is the kind of person who has no tact, go to him before class to make sure...|||Can't think of a boring or ugly language but I think French and Spanish and Italian sound prettiest.|||So beautifully put, I sympathize with a lot of what you said.  Been recently thinking about the loneliness from that perspective also.|||Some women may or may not be like some men in some ways!!!  Sorry, somebody had to say it!|||Just wanted to say thank you to everybody here, I appreciated your posts and sharing your experiences with your own pain and pain of people close to you, and giving me words of wisdom.  It means a...|||Locked as per OP request|||It's a fairly sucky test anyways.  It had the look of being very accurate and comprehensive but it's not.|||It sounds fun in theory but it's a lot of work, especially if you want your theory to be respected.  But you can do it for fun.  Like a guy I knew who said women were of two personality types, the...|||If you look up one post above, in the stickies, you will see the reasoning presented by TreeBob.    http://personalitycafe.com/support-suggestions/43959-delete-old-posts.html|||Locked.|||Buddhism is a religion so it's hard to answer if it can be helpful for anxiety or depression as if it were a treatment.  Meditation and mindfulness, which are part of many different religious...|||Sometimes I think if I ever felt like a peacock butterfly on a sweet sunflower I'd suddenly burst into dozens of flashes of selfish rainbows.|||Yes, I love my psych degree, I used it to clean the toilet yesterday.|||cell phones|||Touched by an angel  It's so hot my white fan sighs each time she turns  to face me I feel the least I can do is make something of myself.|||Yes, let me know and if I can move it if you like. :)|||edit|||What has helped you?  I have PTSD and I'm sick of it.  Things trigger me all the time, I can't relax like before, when I used to just fall sleep and I'm up most nights, can't hold down a job, get...|||As a way of introduction, I have an academic and research background in psychology and have also been a consumer of psychotherapy for a number of years.  Using a question/answer format, this post...|||A cold glass of fresh unclotted blood.  Or some sort of soda, I'm not picky.   :p|||same here, lots of shows lose me and other viewers when they try to add the big emotional stuff to their otherwise lighthearted humorous shows.|||I enjoy Modern Family, I'm mostly into comedies, but I sense that's not the type of shows you might find interesting.  I like the Simpsons too, but old stuff, new ones suck.  Wish there was a similar...|||Just the strain on my back that bothers me.|||Thank you.  This is me this afternoon. :D  http://i61.tinypic.com/2m2use0.jpg|||I keep getting confused when people refer to social anxiety as SAD, as it's the common abbreviation for Seasonal affective disorder.  But there is cure, if by cure you mean not to meet the...|||Yeah I have the same problem....|||Hello and welcome!|||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bznxx12Ptl0|||Some of my favorite actors are people who play (or have played) people of opposite sexual orientation:  Eric McCormack (Will, in Will & Grace) David Hyde Pierce (Niles, in Frasier) Neil Patrick...|||I'm 3/4th Hindu, 1/48th Muslim, 2/93rd Jewish, 1/33rd Christian, 1/99th Buddhist, 1/8th German, 1/213th gay, 2/91st trans, 1/3rd straight, 1/882nd African, 1/83322nd short, 1/4th tall, 1/8th...|||I'm the worst nightmare of grammar police, vocabulary police, spelling police ,etc.  I don't follow rules.  Writing for me is an activity in creative expression, but by my own rules.  Only when I was...|||I still remember that great speech given by our hour most honorable leader, Carrot Top, on the famous mountain: I have a CREAM!...That I apply to my face when it's real sunny out there.|||Angelic Gardevoir, sorry for your losses and your bad experiences here too.  I obviously can't give advice about diagnosable things, but to speak in most general terms, I also deal with a lot of...|||I have a degree in psych and also been consumer of psych services for years, most recently for PTSD.    My suggestion is go to a GP, make sure everything else is working fine.  I actually wanted to...|||+111111111111|||I am new to moderating, but on my part I try to mention the reason why a thread was locked.  Often it's the OP who PM's me or other mods and says they want their thread deleted.  But since the way...|||Oh boy, solitary confinement!  For life!   http://40.media.tumblr.com/1e397a8bcf779a8176bef1108994cdad/tumblr_nj7kwdBTjb1qjljfao1_1280.jpg  No, wait, it gets better.  Only barely.  A second...|||Knock knock.  Who's there?  To.  To who?  To whom!|||My stomach hurts today. They call it heartburn. Sometimes I cry at night. Sometimes I'm numb - I don't mind. What if I die, what if I never find in this place of pain and hate,  my life, my...|||I'm a newbie myself to poetry but that's Rumi there in my sig.  I also recommend Robert Frost and T.S. Eliot.|||Without doubt Texas!  How could anybody not like the state that gave us the most adorable Sheldon and his mother! ...|||Thanks guys, I was starting to doubt my ability to read!  These stupid things are the reason robots will rise in near future and destroy human beings.  The CAPTCHA is eliminating humans not robots.  ...|||Haven't seen this CAPTCHA in a long while (hate these damned things), it's embarrassing but I'm having a brain freeze, forgetting how used to do this but nothing been working so far. Not sure what...|||Do you have a supervisor or a third party that can help?    Like this advice quite a bit too.|||Why?  Are you great at math or suffer from schizophrenia...or both?|||Pays handsomely, with usual perks like paid vacation and free blood transfusion 'round the clock.  Fax your resume to 555-HARK.  Picture of your office:  http://i.imgur.com/6Wexhtx.jpg|||I read like five pages and stopped, all those damned Russian names. :P  I hate books with so many names, I can't even remember five or six names I can actually pronounce, though my dad had said...|||That's so sad.  I know many parents don't react well to things like this (heck, people themselves often don't want to have gender issues either) at first but they usually come around.  Or they...|||Lindsay Weir, I have a degree in psych and spent some time in grad school and also did research but gender identity issue is not something I have much familiarity with.  However, I think this is...'