Hi all.
Any idea of institutions in Kuwait that provide funding or financial assistance for PhD students who are doing a Phd abroad on topics pertaining to Kuwait?

Either for Kuwaitis or life-long residents who have graduated from Kuwait University.

I do know about KFAS but are there any additional places?

English below مخاطر الهواتف الذكية تتعدى مجرد السوشل ميديا و المحتوى الضار…رؤية اطفال بعمر ٣ سنوات مدمنين شاشات و هواتف تعور القلب بصراحة.

الهواتف الذكية قاعدة تقتل القدرة على التفكير و الانتباه و الذاكرة عند الكبار فما بالك الصغار اللي ادمغتهم قيد التشكل. انا مع اصدار قانون يمنع الاهل من شراء جهاز ذكي او حتى ايباد للاطفال، او حتى تسليمه هاتفهم في الاماكن العامة.

ما ادري آلية التطبيق بس شي احسن من ولا شي، لازم يكون في وعي اكبر بكثير.

للتواصل مع الطفل لمن يكون بعيد، بالامكان استبدال الهاتف الذكي بهاتف غبي لكن فيه واتساب و تتبع الموقع (لوكيشن) على سبيل المثال (يمكن التعاقد مع شركات عالمية لتخصيص هواتف آمنة للقُصّر)

The dangers of social media exceed harmful and predatory content…witnessing kids as young as 3 years old with screen addiction is horrifying.

Smart phones are obliterating our ability to think, our attention spans, and our memories as adults; and for kids whose brains are at developmentally critical stage the situation will be more precarious.

I do hope that new laws are enacted that ban parents from buying smartphones and tablets for little kids, or even handing their own phones to kids in public. I do not know how feasible this is but it’s still better than nothing. There should be more awareness on this.

Governments can collaborate with tech companies to produce “stupid” phones with basic functions like whatsapp and location tracking so that parents and kids can communicate when they are apart.

(I also posted this in the main CPTSD sub) One of my mind’s central coping mechanisms since my teen years is fixating on a romantic interest (usually one-sided) and projecting all my needs on him, blindly convinced that once he falls in love with me I will be cured from all pain and inferiority. I always long for him so badly it hurts like hell and my whole energy and time (my whole life) is always dedicated to this obsession.

I wonder if this is a common theme with CPTSD survivors. Or do you have other central coping strategies?

To add to that, most of the time they don’t even know I exist and if they do they are simply not interested. The rejection sends me down an awful spiral and complete mental breakdown that usually requires professional assistance.

I have been in intensive trauma therapy for half a decade and recently hired an additional therapist. The limerence is now less but still there and still very painful and the healing and sobering up is ALSO PAINFUL, wtf.

I have always felt so ashamed and like a loser because of this. I have never been in a romantic relationship and cannot focus on my career because this obsession occupies my whole internal world. So exhausting.

محتاجة مبلغ معين ف ابي ابيع اسوارة ذهب.

اللي عندهم تجربة، شلون الطريقة و شلون اتفادى النصب و وين احسن اماكن؟ بس ادش اي محل ذهب و اقول لهم ببيع هالاسوارة؟

Reposting my own post from the main CPTSD subreddit: Since talk therapy (CBT) had failed me repeatedly and then I tried EMDR and somatic healing, I believed that these were the holy grail and only path for healing. (it works amazingly but there is more)

I started EMDR in late 2020 and continue to this day. It had helped me IMMENSELY, along with somatic work and IFS, and I processed so much. However, despite all these years of intensive feeling and processing, I still felt trapped in C-PTSD and all form of coping responses. I still felt so stuck in all aspects of life I was still in immense pain.

My EMDR therapist is amazing, however, she is a foreigner and from a different culture, and we both communicate in our second language. The processing part is good, but I did not "click" with her in the talking part. I did not feel anything when we talked about my day-to-day struggles and did not feel completely understood. Her insights and validation did not resonate, mainly due to the cultural barrier. (I have to repeat I like her alot and we have a great connection but something was missing)

Then the unexpected happened: I then decided to hire an additional therapist from my own culture and age bracket, just to vent and to have more of a "best-friend" experience and day-to-day guidance with someone who would actually understand what I had been though, both from a cultural and professional standpoint. And WOW!! What was supposed to be just a simple "venting" and "guidance" space turned out to be such a crucial part of healing!!

With approval from my first therapist, I chose my second therapist because she was from my culture, age, we spoke the same language, same religion, and she seemed more specialized in women's day-to-day struggles than deep trauma work. So it was going to be a light-hearted trip. Just what I wanted. In addition to that, her main mode was Client-focused PSYCHODYNAMIC THERAPY, she was very trauma-informed, AND she was well-versed in IFS and psychology from our own spiritual tradition. Being client focused meant that the client led the session. Absolutely perfect fit!

My experience with psychodynamic therapy**:** I discovered how deprived us C-PTSD folks actually are from safe human connection, I realized never even knew what that was. Simply having a safe space to speak our fears, shames, sorrows, concerns, without having the other person (well-meaningly) minimize our experiences or trying to fix our feelings, and feeling COMPLETELY UNDERSTOOD and having your thoughts reiterated in a deeper language; and have your feelings, insights and experiences lovingly validated and empathized with. I never had that in all my 35 years of life, even in therapy. It was very life-altering to experience.

The therapuetic process was harder than I thought because speaking in the same language mad me feel more RAW. Speaking in a foreign language creates a protective barrier that shields you from the human connection required for healing. Also, I never understood how C-PTSD can cause PROFOUND SPIRITUAL INJURY, and how healing the incorporation of spiritual elements (from your own spiritual tradition) and the reconnection with the spiritual can be.

I will continue with EMDR but at a much slower frequency. I REALIZED THAT BECUASE I WAS SO UNDERRESOURCED, excessive EMDR may have been retraumatizing me because I was going at a very intensive pace due to my overwhelm by survival mode.

I am also incorporated PHYSICAL HEALING by working with a functional medicine practitioner and trying to heal my absoluteLy fried stress responses and hormones.

I apologize for the long post and if you have reached this far: thank you and I wish you all the best on your healing path 💜💜💜

الدوائر الحكومية عطلتهم الثلاثاء ٢٥ اغسطس لكن التليفون حاطلي انها ممكن تكون ٢٧ الخميس.

سبب اهتمامي بالموضوع هو انه عندي موعد في مركز طبي بالقطاع الخاص و لازم اختار احجز ٢٥او ٢٧ اغسطس. ما بي احجز بعدين يطلع عطلة 🙃

و مشكورين مقدماّ

انا ما عندي خبرة بسوالف الwallpaper لأن طول عمرنا نغير دهان و بس لكن انا ما لي خلق على ورشة صبغ عشان جدارين بالغرفة.

ابي نصايحكم و اماكن مجربة حق الwallpaper و يركبونه أهم. و من ناحية التكلفة هي هو افضل من الصبغ؟

Trigger warning: SA.

(long-story short**: I get mortally triggered at news of SA especially when a group of teenage males assault a teenage girl and they are legally absolved. I discovered a part that is deeply ashamed of femaleness and female sexuality, and hating and fearful towards the masculine. I am unable to process**)

Full story:

I am a 31 year old female with a significant history of complex trauma and abuse (emotional abuse/physical abuse/very severe emotional neglect/several disabilities from abuse/severe avoidant attachment/intense limerence). I have been in trauma therapy since around 5 years back and I progressed ALOT. I am doing EMDR and somatic therapy mainly, and now I am stuck at an overwhelming part.

Due to severe avoidance I have never been in a relationship, i am a straight woman from a conservative culture and I consider myself a proud feminist and kind of a man hater. I recently discovered intense fear and hatred and anger towards the masculine in general, to the point that it often keeps me up at night.

Trigger warning: SA against minors- skip this paragraph if you are sensitive. SOMETHING THAT TRIGGERED ME TO THE POINT OF WANTING TO OFF MYSELF: News about sexual assault trigger the shit out of me. especially: gang rape, especially rape against a teenage girl. i recently came across several incidents (in movies and in news) where this happened; a teenage girl would be raped and humiliated and filmed by teen male “friends”, and the rapists were legally absolved because they were minors themselves and there was not enough evidence that it was non-consensual. To make it worse, The males’ lawyers (or the JUDGE) would defend them by saying that the victim “enjoyed” it but later pressed charges because she was shamed for being a “slut”. The news piece had graphic and deep details of the incident because it was filmed. The absolving of the rapists and the further slut-shaming of the female victims in the courts (these are several stories not one) DROVE MY INTO SUICIDAL RAGE AND I AM PERMANENTLY TRIGGERED.

When I later dug deeper into this using EMDR and somatic practices I noticed intense shame toward femaleness as a whole and particularly female sexuality. While i am a proud feminist, I was surprised that a Part of me sees femaleness as inherently inferior and weak and thus inviting of male punishment, and straight sex and female enjoyment as inherently humiliating against the female. I have deep hatred and fear towards the masculine to the point of wishing them complete annihilation. I know part of it is cultural, but another part of it is a deeply traumatized part.

Background info: while I was never directly sexually assaulted, my dad was severely physically and emotionally abusive and I had no other male role models.
I was severely beaten by my dad at age 6 —to the point I thought I was dying of fear and actually wished to die— because I said sexual things infront of my adult cousins (I wanted to make them laugh and did not understand what I was saying). After my dad severely beat and scared and shamed the shit out of me and my mother not intervening, she went in to “soothe” me by being loving but also defending my dad and further shaming me because I said things that were “shameful”.

In my teenage years I had selective mutism and severe social anxiety and my school environment was extremely slut-shaming while males enjoyed being sexually curious and callous and demeaning towards girls without being shamed. My parents never helped me with my mental health issues because they saw them as my fault.

I am trying to sit with my ashamed part and let it move through me; I cried so hard in several sessions and even had full body tension-releasing tremors because it was that tense. I now realize that this part is trying to protect me because it equates female sexuality to danger of social ostratization and even DEATH. But the feeling still won’t be integrated and my core female shame runs extremely deep.
This part feels extremely helpless and really believes the shameful story.

If you read that far thanks alot.

Again: MISOGYNISTIC OR ANY ANTI-WOMAN SENTIMENTS ARE NOT WELCOME AND WILL BE REPORTED

عندي التهابات متكررة في اوتار القدم و ابي طبيب شاطر حسب تجاربكم

I am no stranger to somatic work and EMDR since years and I have experienced symptoms such as Traumatic Release Tremors…usually after a considerable time in my session…

however recently I started to experience SHIVERING whenever I practice the simple activity of sitting and paying attention to my body…not continuous shivers but these sets of single shivers when your body starts getting a bit cold, as soon as I start my practice/meditation.

This is probably within normal reaction but I would like to know about your experiences and how to make sense of it.

مع اني اعتني بأسناني عدل و قبل شهرين سويت تنظيف عند الدكتور لكن لاحظت تسلل خط من الجير باتجاه ضروسي الامامية مع اني افرش كل يوم عدل 😵‍💫 شكلي لازم اغير ادوات الاسنان. أفيدونا بتجاربكم و نصائحكم و اكون لكم من الشاكرين.

Following the news and even from personal experience it’s not secret that a substantial amount of males behave in very harmful ways; even “benign” men seem to secretly enjoy it (ie graphic porn (teen/rape/incest/humiliating etc) being constantly among the most sought-after porn categories).

I know it’s “not all men”, some men are truly moral. But looking at male behavioral patterns there obviously is a common SHADOW element that men deal with very differently.

This is not an attack against men nor a denial of the negative aspects of the female shadow…it’s just that as a female I am finding it very difficult to wrap my head around and accept the existence of the male shadow, it literally terrifies me so much and keeps me up at night. I am afraid of men with every fiber of my being.

Jungian psychology makes so much sense to me so I would like to have some enlightenment from fellow men (& women) on how they deal with their male shadow and how I should approach the issue.