That is called Narcissistic Abuse and sounds like a malignant Narcissist to me.

I agree. Really looking for the constructive “next steps” here, hoping we can all figure it out together. Feeling... kinda too traumatized to do it by myself, hoping the orgy of sharing all these terrible stories is going to lead to... something.

My main point is: the freezing up is not just a response to physical…

UGH UGHNARRRRRRGghhh... ga. I think you just fucking broke me. Yup. That was the individual shitty truth about everything that did it. Fa.

I have been thinking about this in a similar, yet different way.

In this climate, you “dont believe it takes any real courage to transition from being a man to a woman”?

Really?

REALLY?

Here are some facts about PTSD, from a woman who has PTSD:

- PTSD is more like a brain injury than a chemical imbalance. PTSD typically comes from one stressful event, whereas c-PTSD (the c stands fro complex or compounded) comes from a series of related stressful events over time.

- Your brain rewires, creating a…

I have been having similar feels since Monday. All the times I have been made to feel unsafe, trapped and worried that I had to be quiet, or be okay with abuses or laugh things off in order to just... maintain whatever situation I was in. To just survive. It is both heartening and heartbreaking to read so many similar…

Talking about it is risky. Addressing the behavior of men is risky, especially when it does not fit a conventional definition of violent assault, but rather is a too-familiar “that’s just how it is” kind of psychological abuse and undermining of the reality of women. The consequences of “not talking about it” are high…

Ugh, this x100. The Democratic Party thought that they could subvert the system with an unfair primary in order to manipulate the democratic process to crown the candidate they wanted. They failed. They alienated their base, the base who has the actual social democratic values now being systematically threatened and…

I would really like to see this fucking guy try to explain any of this. I mean REALLY explain it.

As in: who in his direct orbit benefits from rolling back environmental protections. As in: what is the financial return on climate change denial, and on what schedule... how can this enrich people in 3.5 years or less?…

No, cuz... she wants him to Bend the Knee.

As in propose.

She’s exhibiting signs of trauma and poor judgement due to trauma. She is in the middle of either having her life ruined, or ruining her own life. The way the world is right now IS LITERALLY MAKING PEOPLE CRAZY - and you are piling onto a couple women who are actively in the shit fighting the patriarchy, without a…

To confirm: just broke up with a man for this reason, and staying single for same. Can NOT debate my lived reality as if it was some philosophy class exercise with a guy who thinks he’s a good dude but is by his own definition a rapist, makes 6 times more then me but thinks we should go halvsies on the groceries and…

+1 Salient point is salient.

If either of the world wars had reached American shores, there would have been more of an integration of America as a whole, where everyone is defending the country. There has been no landwar since the Civil War, no outside enemy to unite against and fight as brothers on, to literally…

I legit thought that was Wyoming for the first two loops.

How else do you think they will grow the army?

Perry looks like a future “escape goat” to me.

Or that the yardsticks that defined success in Network TV at different than the ones in broadband networks, and we are moving out of a time when Network TV is the leading way people consume their content. Do you have cable? Or do you pay for internet and subcribe to specific content. The ratings system known as…

I feel exactly like this. I feel exactly like you. I am also over it. I cannot play the game any more, because it’s not fair and the grownups all tricked us.

Honestly: why is no one drawing a connection to the Bernie Sanders Campaign here? Plus, we are talking about hacks of the DNC and the RNC, but what about voting machines?