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Putting it into Words [TRIGGERS]

Sexual Abuse 28 Responses »

22 Mar2010

*** TRIGGER WARNING *** This goes into much more specific and disturbing detail than my last post of this nature. Please, please take care in reading this. If you’re in any doubt about how much you may or may not be triggered, click here instead. P. xxx Earlier, bourach at Conversations with my Head wrote [...]

(Kind of) Discussing Child Sex Abuse with C – Week 43

C, Moods, Psychotherapy, Sexual Abuse, Traumatic Stuff, Triggers 12 Responses »

09 Mar2010

TRIGGER WARNING – If you hadn’t guessed from the title, this post contains a number of references to child sexual abuse in varying degrees of detail. Please, please be careful if you think this material may trigger you. Take care, Pan x I received a text message from my cousin Sarah early this afternoon to [...]

Anonymity and New Identities

Context, Random, Random Mental Health Related Philosophising 7 Responses »

01 Mar2010

I’ve made a few references to the relative anonymity of this blog in recent posts (here and here) and decided I would explore it more. I know many bloggers here in the madosphere write anonymously in order that they may reveal their deepest, darkest thoughts with complete impunity; for example, Bippidee gave a very good [...]

About the Author

WARNING: THIS BLOG CONTAINS SOME DISTURBING, POTENTIALLY TRIGGERING, MATERIAL AND VERY STRONG LANGUAGE.

Pandora

Your humble narrator is a female in her late 20s from Northern Ireland, attempting to find her way through the labyrinth that is NHS mental health services. Her diagnoses are a convoluted mishmash of:

borderline personality disorder
complex post-traumatic stress disorder
bipolar II disorder
major clinical depression
social anxiety and
transient psychosis and dissociation.

Through intense psychotherapy, she is attempting to recover from child sex abuse, as well as issues of abandonment, betrayal and self-harm.

Much more information can be found on the 'About' page. See below for the archives if you want the full context and detailed story since May 2009.

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I'm in the Republic for Iron Maiden gig, woo. Already intermittent contact may be even more so as I search for wifi. Have a good weekend x
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RT @BeyondMeds: RT @hyblis I have always found the rampant promotion of CBT to be a kind of cynical marketing exercise...
Just had the fun of sitting through what was inevitably going to be a difficult session whilst in the throes of an IBS attack. FML.

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