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Woah. That鈥檚 crazy cool. How fascinating. We are creatures of habit and condition.
ozgirl512 路 26-30, F
@DarkHeaven Pavlovian ;)
@ozgirl512 yup. Ring a bell and a dog salivates. Crazy. Gives me hope that my PTSD can be unconditioned, however some studies say that severe stress and trauma can literally rewire your brain and it鈥檚 neural pathways, so maybe not.
Trippy 路 F
@DarkHeaven I wanted to both apluad those who walked away and hug the shit out of the single girl who shyly said okay 鉂わ笍
ozgirl512 路 26-30, F
@DarkHeaven also that same brain plasticity can be used to overcome problems ...
@Trippy I鈥檓 very impulsive, part of my musician artist type personality... but because of my adult onset of severe mental illness and trauma that accompanied it, I鈥檇 have to get over my crippling anxiety to say the words and not just flee the situation.
@ozgirl512 Let鈥檚 hope so for me. I鈥檓 truly trying but many of the underlying issues are still there, so there鈥檚 not truly a full path back, because that road no longer exists.
@Trippy You should have met the girl I was before all of this. Lead guitarist and lead singer in a female lead Industrial Metal band. I was a fucking force of nature. But apparently I was meant to be the crazy girl that don鈥檛 hardly leave her apartment. Lucky me.
ozgirl512 路 26-30, F
@DarkHeaven I have total faith in you!
@ozgirl512 ty 馃枻馃
Trippy 路 F
@DarkHeaven You Dark...will rise above in the end. Never give up. 鉂わ笍
@Trippy I bet. Be safe and be well. Thanks for the interesting post. 馃尭
@Trippy My odds aren鈥檛 good, sweetheart, but I love your encouragement. The facts as they are is that I鈥檝e had five dosage increases since I left the hospital in less than four years. I鈥檓 on a specific cocktail of drugs to treat what I am. It took a long time just to get here and this is all that works. Barring a new medications for what I suffer (nothing has come to market for a long time,) I鈥檓 stuck with what I take. The medications are decades old and I鈥檓 already starting to near maximum dosage as my body slowly adapts and I build a resistance to it鈥檚 treatment. Eventually I will lose this fight, my hell will return, and I will be lost in the nightmare of my own mind... unable to separate reality from fantasy. My future is die back in the hospital trapped and alone, a victim of my own mind. The thought terrifies and depresses me but that day is not today. For today, I dance... and I sing... and I cry... happy tears, because I can tell people I love them and show people I care. I can hand a blanket to a homeless vet at the shelter and be touched by his tears. I will continue to burn my candle until my fires burn no more, as no one can be sure when time is done and their journey has ended. 馃枻
Trippy 路 F
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