It's like falling back down the stairs I spent so long climbing, except they're different stairs as I start back up. What's at the top?

So I get angry at myself when I fail to be the thing people want me to be and then angry at them for wanting me to be anything at all, for having expectations of me. And that's when I just stop interacting entirely. I pull back, say fuck it, and want nothing to do with that person. With people at all. But I suspect I'm the one to blame, that I ( Read more... )

The neighbor who molested me when I was a kid is no longer living at the house at the bottom of the hill. He's in a nursing home, has had his leg amputated, and his kids all hate him. He's an old man. He's an old man and going to die ( Read more... )

From an article describing some of the work of Bessel Van der Kolk, MD

"In his presentation, he shared some of his research in which brain scans were performed on patients who suffered trauma. They found that it is the limbic part of the brain that is most affected by trauma. During a traumatic experience, the right posterior part of the brain, ( Read more... )