It's The LIttle Things That Get To You

[comes_the_light]

Standing in the return/exchange line at a local retailer is something I avoid at all costs. Invariably there are twenty people in line, few with receipts, and one cashier wearing a tag "new member in training". If anything can send me off the deep end fast, this will

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[melleecat]

This post was very helpful to me as it touched on the feelingless that helplessness evoke in me, and also put things in perspective.

[comes_the_light]

I think feeling helpless is one of the worst feelings in the world. Or maybe it isn't that I feel helpless, but unable to react in the way I want to.

[melleecat]

I have helpless dreams now and then--probably PTSD from when I was a victim of statutory rape as a teen. The dreams are not about the incident, but the themes are always that I can't find my way or get somewhere that I need to be. They are disturbing and I have had them my whole adult life.

[comes_the_light]

I'm so sorry to hear about your dreams. I cannot imagine how difficult something like your experience must have been. Have you done any work with hypnosis or biofeedback or anything?

[melleecat]

Not lately. back when i first went to counseling i was a fundamentalist Christian and opposed to any alternative ideas. Now that I am an agnostic, I have no problem with alternative approaches.