I just bought primer for the first time and I genuinely don’t know how to prep my skin 😭 anytime I put moisturiser or serum on my makeup separates and pills. I have a party tonight and I’m freaking out help please !! If it helps I have combination skin.
My psychiatrist recently mentioned they think I might have PTSD from being sexually assaulted last year. It’s not a diagnosis but he did bring it up. If you are comfortable please let me know what you have been experiencing.
This is what I have been experiencing if you’re interested, I might just be a sensitive and anxious person I don’t know.
For the first 8 months or so after the assault it didn’t affect me much honestly, and then it hit me like a brick and I started having nightmares every single night about it. I have horrible nightmares that make me afraid to go to sleep and I always wake up sweating. I have also become very sensitive to people touching me even my friends and family who I trust, it just always reminds me of what happened. I am really easily scared by the tiniest thing and will jump or flinch at someone clearing their throat, which never used to happen. I also get panic attacks daily and they are random - I won’t even be thinking about the assault and it happens anyways.
What did you notice when your dosage was too high or too low? What side effects did you experience and how did you feel?
I’ve been on sertraline for 3 years now and to be honest I don’t know what it’s doing. I’m still extremely anxious but I am just an anxious person anyways so I really don’t know.
What did you notice when your dosage was too high or too low? What side effects did you experience and what did you feel?
I’ve been on dexamphetamines for a couple of years and I felt they weren’t working enough so my psychiatrist put me on Vyvanse just normal 30mg. It’s been maybe 3 months or so and I’m not sure how I feel about it and whether it’s the right dose or not. I don’t know if it’s too high or too low.
This is a bit of a rant sorry but please keep in mind I was 14 and this was my first boyfriend and I learned a lot of lessons from this relationship. A lot of these things I thought were normal to happen to girls in relationships.
When I was 14, I was dating this guy who constantly told me that he was waiting till marriage and that he’s a very strong Christian. He was also really manipulative but I was young and naive so I stayed with him for a while. One day I was at his house and he asked me to have sex with him. I said no and he immediately flipped out and started yelling about how he wants to break up because we ‘want different things from our relationship’. He went on a 30 minute long rant about how we’re basically married anyways and our love for each other is too strong to not have sex or something. I was so afraid of losing him because he was my first boyfriend so I gave in. Afterwards I bled a lot and I was in pain every time I went to the bathroom for the next couple of days.
After this, he kind of gained confidence to do more sexual things to me. I would constantly wake up from naps with his hands down my pants. He would tell me to close my eyes for a surprise and then shove his penis in my face and force me to perform oral or he would pin me up against the headboard of the bed and force me to do the same thing. He would constantly put his hands up my skirt and try to finger me in public and didn’t stop after I said no. One thing I remember well is he would get angry over the smallest thing so I would meet him in the park between our houses to talk it out, and I would comfort him because he was crying. I remember comforting him and hugging him and then he took his dick out and said he’ll feel better if I gave him oral. I always said no every time he made me give him oral but he would push my head and he never took no for an answer, or he would get angry at me and I felt like I had to.
He would say things like “Since we’re dating, you wouldn’t get mad if you woke up to me having sex with you, right?” And he would say he believes sexual assault doesn’t exist in relationships because being in the relationship was consent. Once he asked me if he could try the back door if you know what I mean and I caught him trying anyways even though I said no so many times.
Even now when I’m typing this out I don’t feel very emotional towards it because he convinced me that it was normal and not a bad thing at all. It’s been a few years and somehow a part of me still feels like this was okay. I keep jumping back and forth between “I’m overreacting” and “that was so fucked up” and I can never pick an opinion. I have never told anyone about this so I don’t have other peoples opinions to count on either.
I really don’t mean this to seek attention and validation or anything I genuinely don’t know how to feel about any of this.
My daughter was sexually assaulted (as a child) and the lasting effects are devastating to watch. She has been diagnosed with PTSD, has nightmares almost every night and constantly has panic attacks because of this assault. I have tried everything to help her and taken her to many therapists but she is so terrified of the perpetrator and she is refusing to make a police report because of her fear of him. I recently learned about the recognition payment/financial assistance for sexual assault but I’m wondering about the steps to apply. Would she be able to apply if she does a SARO? I don’t believe she would mentally be able to do anything more than that to report this. We do have many forms of proof of this assault that we can use if that would help us… if a police report is mandatory I think she will need more time to fully heal first before applying. Sorry for the ramble I am desperate to help her in any way I can.