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This is not necessarily a strategy for you, but this sounds very similar to how I feel. I have diagnosed ADHD and prior to that, always fell under the category of being a "highly sensitive person." I …

I just realized that I might be a victim of munchausen by proxy — I'm realizing that my whole life was a lie and I am feeling waves of shame, regret, anxiety. I'm a young adult female stuck in severe isolation still at home with just my mom and sibling. I think I ha…

Not Getting Anywhere — I finally started therapy on a regular basis about a year and a half ago. I was really struggling from childhood and it continued to snowball for decades. After a year of sessions I let my therapist k…

Getting help at 18 — TW: mentions of abuse(physical, emotional), self harm sorry if I overshare but Ive recently gotten help at 18, ive recently turned 18 and I havent even gotten my highschool diploma yet but i graduat…

Advice on night time anxiety. — By no means am I self diagnosing myself with something as I am not about that, but all my life I have been a very anxious person and I find that it all gets worse at night time. It will keep me up un…

Have a life altering exams on june but im losing the war against procrastination. Deciding to do my best the next 2 months — Background: I’ve struggled with procrastination for most of my academic life. I almost always end up finishing things right before the deadline. it always comes with a lot of stress and the feeling t…

SRA and hidden trauma — For fifty years I repressed memories of SRA (satanic ritual abuse). Throughout those decades I experienced a wide variety of physiological aches and pains: terrible pain in my head neck, back, arms an…

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It’s not enough. And it’s not diagnosing if you just count the traits. There are NPD and BPD traits, and you can do inventory check and discernment. Throwing labels on someone isn’t useful even in the…

calling out ppls attachments is a form of diagnosing

Yeah, I was going to mention this because I often see posts and comments online and on Reddit demonizing avoidents or diagnosing others of being avoident with limited information or perspective. While…

I am highly skeptical of people online armchair diagnosing anyone as a narcissist. 9/10 it just means "person that hurt me". It seems to be a way to write someone off and never have to understand thei…

As a secure partner, you wouldn't stay in an unhealthy relationship where your partner vanishes on you, nor would you look to diagnosing your partner with attachment issues to justify to yourself stay…

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Your post/comment was removed for breaking the rule about not giving/asking for medical advice or diagnosing others.

For me it was essentially a ptsd flashback and they “were” the person hurting me if this was taking place. Like I was trying to control the damage that I believed (rationally or not) was coming. So a …

I need to know who the fuck normalized diagnosing people with a fear of intimacy or commitment just because they don't want to text or see you as often as you want to see them. I get it's softer on ou…

I also think it's a completely different bag of worms to apply attachment theory to yourself as a tool to help guide self-growth (even if it's misinterpreted), versus using it to diagnose others just …

> People who claim someone as avoidant after dating them for three months Today's situation that set me off was after one date. I'm glad we can all agree that's not enough time or knowledge about som…

You are you. Is who you are, lol. Stop worrying about diagnosing yourself so much as you worry about listening to yourself. You sound like your nervous system is a touch wired towards anxiety as you n…

What on earth is wrong with people? Who on earth says this stuff? For what it's worth, I believe everyone should try therapy - anyone can benefit in one way or another - but I dont go around diagnosin…

> Emotional abuse is real guys, don't think you are above it. I see you. I thought I was above it, and for pretty much all my life, I was; until... I got into a relationship that sounds similar to…

Not diagnosing but sounds like one of my BPD bfs

Goodness, thank you. This post and the comments are a mess. OP is clearly a huge part of the problem here. An emotionally healthy person would not have shown up at that restaurant. An emotionally heal…

Get a new therapist. They shouldn’t be accusing and diagnosing like that

Not commenting on the rest of it, but I'm a 40 year old woman who was only diagnosed with OCD in the last year. I always thought you KNOW when you have OCD, similar to the movie As Good As It Gets, bu…

I'm so sorry this happened to you. A lot of people become opioid addicts bc the hospitals don't wean you like they should. Talk to your doctor about suboxone now to avoid taking pain killers longer an…

No diagnosing mental or physical ailments (including personality disorders and mental illnesses), and no recommending treatments. No speculating about fertility, menopause, ED, or "porn sickness." Goo…

I’ll echo what others have said and commend you for your post. I took a look at your posting history, and here’s a grab bag of thoughts you might find helpful: ChatGPT is in no way a substitute for I…

My mom sounds like yours. She definitely has bad anxiety (which she would never acknowledge, she’s convinced everyone else is the problem) which causes her to try to control others so she doesn’t have…

I had similar down ward spiral in my marriage, except she was a high profile criminal defense lawyer who had appear multiple times on TV for cases, while I was only mental health specialist. I value s…

😂. Bruh that is such bad vague advice.  More like figure out what is wrong (diagnosing the problem correctly) and find a good solution to fix it. If your current solution doesn't work, do something…

u/LivingProfessional59 You’re not overreacting. This is scary. Let’s strip this down to what actually matters: * He’s muttering aggressively * He’s hitting things * He said “I’m going to behead you…

I tried so hard to scroll past this comment but fuck it, I’ll bite. What AngryJanitor said is true: both of your points are as pointless as each other. But they can also be as helpful as each other.…

A lot of Facebook moderators are on a power trip and frequently misuse their power. I would not take what this person says seriously. They do not know you. I once was banned from a Facebook group fo…

I don’t think you should be self diagnosing. You really sound like you need professional help. I highly suggest you go see a mental health specialist. I am no expert by any means but I’ve dealt with…

Im not. Im talking about your brain developing whilst in this state causing permanent developmental changes. Its a good point tho because there is alot of overlap so patents and medical proffesionals …

He may have been interested, and then lost interest. This happens for all sorts of reasons, including when a casual partner sends a thoughtless, overreactive text message. I don't think that we're doi…

This clinches it. He’s a sociopath. That is one of the professions that they’re drawn to (law enforcement, lawyers, physicians, journalists. Anything where impartiality is needed, and the person is re…

>It's stunning to see though that so many people who have "done the work" classify everything into pathology: Love bombing, codependence, attachment style, personality disorders.  Yeah, I know this …

I strongly doubt you have NPD. From my understanding, most folks with NPD wouldn’t care enough about how their actions affect other people to try to be better. The fact that you’re concerned about how…

I am not diagnosing, but I'm curious if BPD research might be in your future. Check out the book "Stop Walking on Eggshells."

I remember being 6 years old and trying to drown myself in a pool, by the age of 9 I self diagnosed my mother via Google of being bipolar and scitzo, low and behold I found years later I was correct a…

Honestly, if you already feel stupid that might be your super power. Do you know how many "stupid" questions you'll have to ask before becoming good in anything? Do that! (For real though: We …

I know that feeling, bud. I know that need to hold onto something so tightly it can't be lost, but that's not how love works. Know that I say all of this with good intention. First of all, you're pr…

I think you're right, I haven't received any kind of diagnosis, although I do have a lot of symptoms of PTSD. Unfortunately, I live in the UK, where it is increasingly difficult to access mental heal…

People who don’t take accountability for their part in unhealthy relationships, constantly complaining about/diagnosing their partners. Also one-sided friendships where I’m always the listener

Fair point, Murphy is well-read here. What I meant is that most posts focus on the technique itself rather than diagnosing why the technique fails for people who are already doing it correctly. The co…

I hate psychiatrists so much. I don't know if it's because they resent being treated mainly as medication prescribers, but the amount of therapizing they all seem to want to do just sucks I can see m…

Being a good listener to the wrong people can drain you. Being a good listener to the right people can be helpful because they will reciprocate when we need a listening ear. Diagnosing their partne…

This isn't a phobia, it's sexual trauma, and you don't do "exposure therapy" for sexual trauma. This is why you leave the therapy to the therapists. It's one thing to tell someone they should seek th…

Society doesn't understand chronic illness at all. People don't get how it impacts your view of the self and basically requires you to reflect on your whole life. It's so weird to me that there hasn't…

I believe you. It hasn’t happened to me, at least not anything like you described, but I’ve definitely heard stories. Psychiatry often reduces trauma and complex human experiences as biological “illne…

This is very helpful thank you. ❤️ I would like to add that in my case, this was true, AND there were also some pretty scary long-term complex conscious deception and exploitation strategies. I think …

Yeah that’s true - communication might not be the entire issue. She won’t apologize ever and maybe I’m just too much of an optimist. This goes back to me not wanting to seem like I’m diagnosing her be…

Unless you are a mental health care professional, you not diagnosing anyone. But at the same time you need to pay attention to the patterns and understand what is going on, and most importantly how it…

Focus more on being a compassionate friend than going down the rabbit hole of diagnosing her mental condition. Grief at the loss of a loved one is an incredibly complex terrain, challenging even for …

What stands out right away are a few key facts that you might not be seeing clearly right now because you’re emotionally involved and your system is activated. That’s completely normal, and it makes s…