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GiraffesAreCHOPNS
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I'm just trying to function a tad better. I tend to keep different mixes of functions and needs in categories or characters of sort. I had to hide things since young, and new stuff really made that gradually absolute and intensely complicated for another decade. I was supposed to take care of a personal part and only act as a slave to finally have null worth and merit a suicide later. It was really nice to feel like I had a fate or place in society, and I'm still attached to it. I managed to create fog and confusion on a lot of painful nuances while overregulating things, so some insidious issues or simple details just amplified a dysfunction.

I wasn't supposed to have anyone in my life at this age, but the last secondary crisis made me terrified of having anything to do with my regulation, management, care, analysis/understanding, sympathy/pampering, guidance, punishments/conditioning or anything of the sort. I really feel and act like a non guided impersonal front and a hidden personal childish part since over a year now. My mind switched and to untangle I tried to dogmatize the idea that a professional could replace everything I was for me. Like an absolute for everything. I knew that too would have to change, but I had to break some patterns. I feel a need to assure that a visit to a professional would be my kind of safe for a ton of very intense and complicated problematic systems and issues. I still feel close to panic constantly at the sight of medical doctors or similar and tend to dissimulate anything. I can be too safe and open otherwise - until something is uncomfortable if irl.

I wasn't well enough at some point to allow having friends in my life - I had to go back to my old life plans until I'd get better. It got worse instead. Leaving during some crisis' kind of made a complicated sequence of reworks in my connotations about bonds/bonding with people : I don't think I could feel much bonds now, and those old ones are conflicting. It settled in a particular way. I don't know how to resolve the accumulated aftermath of emotions, since some complexity in the sequences of events just made it an unusual type of indirect. I lack my old ways of analyzing and managing those types of indirect issues - for the self sympathy, analysis, etc back and forths, and such.
I used to hurt myself to prevent being able to want to mention smaller personal issues to best friends. They're the only ones for which I felt that I could want or consider that. We coped together, were accepting and kept some introverted distance. It was special and I feel horrible about it. I've hurt myself plenty for it.
I feel like I could make the childish bond I mentioned for a psy professional, but that’s just poor. In general, I still mean that regular bonding doesn’t feel possible.

I used to regulate my distractions and goals. I had different types for different situations. I have some stuff to pass time. I used to be very creative and so on, but I lost it. I've tried to get used to safety feelings after moving last year, which is nice. Some games are nostalgic, but I can't enjoy new things for predictable reasons. I feel a constant lack of being totally bonkers all the time. I need that survival stress on tap, and separate from anything safe and personal, so that I could feel safe, but can't use it since year(s) ago.

I don’t want to add any other personal stuff or difficulties.
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I don't speak English, I mostly use it to write online. I used it to add another difference between guide/slave routines and roles. I've mostly thought of emotional or personal subjects only in English. The fact that I don't really speak the language makes my use of it often poor : I use my own terms sometimes, and the structure or grammar can be poor.
Sorry if ever I'd bother you to some degree.
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What would be good resources to help get to professionals, gp’s and such, and talk about personal things, considering my brain?
General Support / by GiraffesAreCHOPNS
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November 28th, 2021
...See more I kind of function as multiple parts. And I spent so many years obsessing about not disclosing personal information and reinforcing roles of separations in me for self care/punishments/functions/feeling emotions or personal subjects/etc. I was very creative and talented imo for conditioning. The more hurt, vulnerable and hidden part of me was able to come out in a pretty confusing way in 2018 after really unlikely kindness and understanding from others (someone directly mentioning protectors and someone kind of making it want to come out and feel safe elsewhere), and really intense 5h+ self harm episodes, like mimicking someone else hurting it. I couldn’t trust or be responsible or caring parts until maybe 2020 after those. I’ve spent close to 4 years now doing the opposite and working on talking more and more, to the point that nothing about me is recognizable. I’ve completely stopped analyzing anything about me for 4 years and did really anything to stop at first (except to out-think hurtful panic/triggers), so to stop managing things or ‘self care’. And to stop the constant intense stress and intense wariness. Problem is that the worse of it needs that analysis to open up safely, but it feels like genuine progress and a hallmark of health that I stopped. Some stressors aren’t there anymore, even less this year, and I’m alone finally. It feels extremely confusing because other parts of me are less defined sometimes, but I get really intense in whichever way at random benign triggers. It just comes back in some odd ways at times. Anything irl or clinical for talking with adult-ey people is still as intense as ever though. I’ve spoken extensively about maybe 80% of personal things online countless times, to the point that it’s casual and too forgettable, and I need to reread and analyze a lot because it still affects me in drastic ways. (In the past also, simply having cognitions or wants about considering talking or opening up in that minimal way warranted extreme amounts of punishments at times, weeks of routines at times, or at least until it was impossible to try. That part COULD NOT seek out, trust or open up at the time, and it’s not like it didn’t have baggage prior. So I’ll submit thinking that’s still current sometimes.) * I’m wondering if there’s a resource to help that jump - more so than active listening? I really don’t know what to do, and I forget how to explain context to convey how intense I am or those parts are for not disclosing information, but like I’d stay up multiple days about it and one part involved for the tougher subjects won’t come out for the first years probably. I’m against it too much. I’ve been going in circles or hitting plateaus often the last 4 years, and it‘s painful when it regresses sometimes. I‘ve never really had to use English except as a vent language (for separating subjects I think about) and don’t speak it, mb for anything.
How do you people share personal information with anyone in real life? (partly a phobia/panic and forced exposure management question)
Anxiety Support / by GiraffesAreCHOPNS
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July 26th, 2021
...See more Ok I figured I'd post this here since there's a quite the variety of things within just these subjects that seem pretty phobic for me and I can stay up for days completely messed up from the slightest overstep. Idk how to nuance the phobias (clinical settings, vulnerability, sharing, etc.), but managing one might be just as finicky and I assume most here are crafty on managing those things. Expanding on one statement : How do you make guaranteed episodes of both panic and intense coping mechanism (forced exposure) less catastrophic and more accompanied/buffered socially? What are nuances you might think about for those needed encounters. (I've pushed the self reliance to insane extremes, so I mean in an accompanied/relational way, not with parts of 'me for now.) [pasted from 2h ago: ] [My brain's kind of broken right now since few hours ago (I can't recall) also and I was panicking and other things earlier. Pardon my poor English, and so on. I added the more direct contexts and hope someone has something to say that might mimic it or bring other subjects into the mix; as well as maybe going about angles I mentioned later, and more. Or just a sentence or 2 is fine. I'm trying to address it again and I'm desperate. My brain's not functioning right since few hours, so bear with me please if you want, I'd beg if it's ok] I've probably formulated extremely well and explained extensively few issues and questions surrounding this 20+ times over the last years. I've spent the last 15+ years avoiding to disclose personal information with anyone irl; it went to some extremes once I was a teenager and accumulated personal/such issues. I've never been open with anyone irl. I've spent all my energy and time for the last 3.5 years now on only breaking mental structures that made sure no personal information would seep out by accident. I had literal suicide protocols and a lot of stuff like that and would spend literal months trying to break myself through stress, sleep deprivation and so on, so I'd make new fears and get in some survival mode easier. I could stay up 3-4 days often for few years just over these types of systems. Like I spent over 4 years on just that from 2014. I genuinely felt like multiple people and a team for this and in general since even before that. It's just a very serious minefield that ricochets on other sets of very intense issues, and it's not structured anymore; it's all entangled or completely loose associatively sometimes. And while I cry often about the very absurd amount of progress I've had, I'd still get extremely extremely wary and intense (unseemingly, if I can hide the stare) if I'm near any sort of gp or clinical people, among lots of other issues I'd have once that's resolved. Since my only life goal is to see a professional before dying, this is quite more important than my survival or responsibilities for me, though I do avoid it; sure that's something to delve into. There's so much to reformulate about the initial question, and so many deeper problematics to bring into this, and I had made a thread here maybe 1-2 years ago, and many other places with more diverse details before that, but seriously I need to make sure a discussion starts and that I somehow address it with my very increasingly deteriorated grasp on all of this, so I can start actualizing and growing again. I'm not functioning ok 95% of the time, and I'm neither the masochist I was or the machine my body used to allow. Everything's a veil right now, but please maybe give a reflection about your end on these things and on : Sharing information, addressing new vulnerabilities, addressing assured but unpredictable terrors and assuring it's not catastrophic once any sparks off, seeing a professional of any kind for the first time Treat me like I'm extremely young/intensely sensitive and tender; an extremely guarded teen/young adult or some sort of odd alien if you want. No other parts of my life have developed too normally, so discard any humanity there apart from base function of emotions, associations, cognitions, subconscious stuff and so on. Sorry for not nuancing anything in this, it's just not working out and I've lost it so many times my mind's not caring or grasping things right in this realm, and I can't focus on anything since some time.
How do you people share personal information with anyone in real life?
General Support / by GiraffesAreCHOPNS
Last post
August 2nd, 2021
...See more [My brain's kind of broken right now since few hours ago (I can't recall) also and I was panicking and other things earlier. Pardon my poor English, and so on. I added the more direct contexts and hope someone has something to say that might mimic it or bring other subjects into the mix; as well as maybe going about angles I mentioned later, and more. Or just a sentence or 2 is fine. I'm trying to address it again and I'm desperate. My brain's not functioning right since few hours, so bear with me please if you want, I'd beg if it's ok] I've probably formulated extremely well and explained extensively few issues and questions surrounding this 20+ times over the last years. I've spent the last 15+ years avoiding to disclose personal information with anyone irl; it went to some extremes once I was a teenager and accumulated personal/such issues. I've never been open with anyone irl. I've spent all my energy and time for the last 3.5 years now on only breaking mental structures that made sure no personal information would seep out by accident. I had literal suicide protocols and a lot of stuff like that and would spend literal months trying to break myself through stress, sleep deprivation and so on, so I'd make new fears and get in some survival mode easier. I could stay up 3-4 days often for few years just over these types of systems. Like I spent over 4 years on just that from 2014. I genuinely felt like multiple people and a team for this and in general since even before that. It's just a very serious minefield that ricochets on other sets of very intense issues, and it's not structured anymore; it's all entangled or completely loose associatively sometimes. And while I cry often about the very absurd amount of progress I've had, I'd still get extremely extremely wary and intense (unseemingly, if I can hide the stare) if I'm near any sort of gp or clinical people, among lots of other issues I'd have once that's resolved. Since my only life goal is to see a professional before dying, this is quite more important than my survival or responsibilities for me, though I do avoid it; sure that's something to delve into. There's so much to reformulate about the initial question, and so many deeper problematics to bring into this, and I had made a thread here maybe 1-2 years ago, and many other places with more diverse details before that, but seriously I need to make sure a discussion starts and that I somehow address it with my very increasingly deteriorated grasp on all of this, so I can start actualizing and growing again. I'm not functioning ok 95% of the time, and I'm neither the masochist I was or the machine my body used to allow. Everything's a veil right now, but please maybe give a reflection about your end on these things and also on : Sharing information, addressing new vulnerabilities, addressing assured but unpredictable terrors and assuring it's not catastrophic once any sparks off, seeing a professional of any kind for the first time Treat me like I'm extremely young/intensely sensitive and tender; an extremely guarded teen/young adult or some sort of odd alien if you want. No other parts of my life have developed too normally, so discard any humanity there apart from base function of emotions, associations, cognitions, subconscious stuff and so on. Sorry for not nuancing anything in this, it's just not working out and I've lost it so many times my mind's not caring or grasping things right in this realm, and I can't focus on anything since some time. (24M)
Do some of you use this day as a self care celebration? (To both care for you and feel safe/cared for). What rebranding have you given it otherwise?
Journals & Diaries / by GiraffesAreCHOPNS
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March 28th, 2020
...See more Ive been so relieved from recent personal progress and I've been happy about this day coming along. I wanted to share and open this topic if anyone feels the same regarding this day. What does this day mean to you (unconventional, or conventional significance)? It seems like a very useful holiday to rebrand imo. For me, todays a sort of self care, self protection, self sympathy/understanding, etc. celebration from certain years back. For about 5 years at some point I went a bit crazy intense and obsessed about complex resilience, self conditioning structures (with flexible opposites), intense stress/sleep deprivation routines, ‘management modes, unconditional acceptance of things, analysis, associative states of ideas/emotions/etc., [etc.]. Lots of dualities and very contrasted parts of me formed to function through a lot of different circumstances/restrictions. Unfortunately, their harmony/functionality and my general cohesion really broke in march 2018, so I got very dysfunctional internally for awhile. It felt extremely intense and impossible to work on those things since then, but very recently I felt like I could start developing myself to some extent from those roots again. I feel both like I can take care of me (to some limited degree) and like I can be cared for, if thats relatable. This is so happy and Im so grateful for things to be in a very slightly hopeful direction internally. The day's a bit less bittersweet and easier due to that, and it's such a convenient occasion to celebrate. Nowadays, I'm for varieties of complex reasons very far from anything this day usually is about, so I just felt like asking if this particular rebranding is a common occurrence, and what other ones are there. ***It's very similar to the inner child thing, if not equivalent, so I'd assume I'm not alone for it.*** I want to share this and express it quite a lot today in a pretty happy carefree way - like its the best thing and I want to share my joy and interest more. I feel like this is a good topic too. What broke the sort of system in me is that I would be unreliable and hurt myself in mean-spirited ways midway during punishments; dissimulating the hypersensitive personal part as an usual absolute process in that context made it feel both in a bad place, abused and unable to escape. It was a bit of a necessary Achilles heel for that situation, but still. Now my expression is validated and encouraged, which is so absolutely foreign and opposite comparatively. I wouldve hurt myself for hours for any feeling thatd have been slightly positive about maybe considering things like this. [Sorry that this text is choppy : it was restructured from a text where I tried to exclude certain topics too connected with those I had mentioned. Sorry for poor English also, I never use it irl. Repeated sleep deprivation might've helped actually writing, but butchered some of it, also.]
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