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crystallizedrequiem
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PathStep 12 Compassion hearts96 Forum posts22 Forum upvotes30 Current upvotes30 Age GroupAdult Last activeSeptember, 2022 Member sinceSeptember 7, 2022
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Hi, I'm 23 Trans Male and Queer. I'm engaged but struggling a bit with my relationship. I deal with undiagnosed chronic pain and am still going through tests. I have severe nerve pain, non-epileptic seizures, and my muscles twitch and spasm a lot. I also deal with PTSD, OCD, Anxiety (general and social), Agoraphobia, Insomnia, ADHD, and I am not diagnosed but in the process or attempting to get a diagnose for DID (I black out a lot and have had people and a therapist tell me to get tested), Nightmare Disorder, and BPD (I have had a therapist and people tell me to get checked for it) I was misdiagnosed BPD because my mother answered all the questions for me. I suffer from some delusions that impact my daily life.


On the positive side, I am a creative writing major. I like anime, games, and books. I spend a lot of time escaping into them. I am also Heathen (basically Norse Pagan) and wish I could connect more with that stuff. I'm currently fixated on Paradox Live, Genshin Impact, and Xianxia light novels and manhua. 


I struggle a lot with guilt, reality issues, and my chronic pain. It has bled over into other aspects of my life and makes it hard to deal with daily activities. I am in the process of getting a new licensed therapist and psych but it takes a while. I'm here to find community with people who have similar problems and work on coping skills. I am not good at doing things on my own, so I hope being here will help me hold myself accountable. 

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1 Week Clean after being Clean for 1 Year
Self-Harm Recovery / by crystallizedrequiem
Last post
September 8th, 2022
...See more TW: Mention of Relapse I had a relapse last week and blacked out. Fortunately it hasn't happened again but the pull is still there. I was clean for 3 years after the first bit, relapsed, was clean again for 2, relapsed again, then I was clean for one, but then last week happened. I wish I was free from it because it doesn't just hurt me, it hurt's my fiance. I can't control what I do during black outs and we think I have DID (therapist and friends) and so they don't think it was me who did it, but it still happened and I still feel guilty about it. I want to be able to make it to another year and then another year, and then just continue it, but I guess I have to go day by day? I don't really know what kind of goal to set for myself. I don't know what a good time frame is.
My Story I Guess
Bipolar, Schizophrenia & Psychosis Support / by crystallizedrequiem
Last post
September 7th, 2022
...See more I've been through countless trauma, and was diagnosed with PTSD as a child, then when I was inpatient I was diagnosed with Anxiety (General and Social), OCD, and Insomnia. As an adult, ADHD and Mixed Bipolar were added. Unfortunately some of these are wrong. They don't really talk about it much but inpatient places don't spend enough time with you to diagnose you. If they had spent more time, then maybe they would have caught the Agoraphobia. Then the Mixed Bipolar diagnosis was done by a doctor who listed to my mother over me, and who didn't look at my records. During high school, I changed to a self paced school and spent maybe one day a week there, before having a breakdown and going home. I still didn't realize it was agoraphobia. I did my junior and senior year in less than two months. I mention that because it is important. I was an art major in college, then a psych major working on a bachelors and now I'm doing creative writing. I've talked with others who feel the same way as I do, and who helped me find out what is actually going on in my brain. I'm not diagnosed properly and it is a struggle trying to get in and correct it. I have delusions, and they can get bad. I had a period of time where for 8 months, I had 3 dreams every night that ranged from nightmares to night terrors. Some felt like they lasted for hours, others felt like they lasted lifetimes. I rarely dream as myself, but there were a few times that I did. It bled into the world around me. It made me feel like nothing is real. I still get dreams like that today, but only a few times a week. I often find myself going somewhere, and looking at the scenery and freaking out because something that I swore was there, wasn't (it was only in the dream). I feel like the butterfly dream. Where Chuang Tzu dreamed he was a butterfly but it was so intense that he didn't know if he was Chuang Tzu dreaming he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Chuang Tzu. I feel like my delusions and paranoia are getting worse. I recently have found myself worried about cameras that aren't there. Not any government watching but the people I live with. I have a poor grip on reality itself and even though I have my partner with me, and we are engaged and I'm here right now, it feels like I'm just in another dream. Another nightmare. I don't know what I have, but I have theories. It probably doesn't help that I have DID and black out, but I'm not diagnosed with it yet, but others with it have watched me black out and have told me that's what happened. Those are the emotions and voices I sometimes feel in my head. I'm trying to get my diagnosis soon, but they want to redo all my other ones first. I'm also scared that I'm just making it all up, that nothing is wrong, despite people in my life telling me time and time again that it does happen. I don't know, everything feels like a dream and I don't know if I'm awake or I'm asleep. The fact that I can read and type doesn't help, because I can do that in my dreams. I even sometimes feel the pain from my dreams in my body now. Bleh, that's my story I guess. I'm not sure if this is how we are supposed to share it. I don't know. I hope I didn't do it wrong. I don't really know what kind of support I need but anything would probably be helpful.
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