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33F. I stopped seeing progress once I started this antipsychotic. I'm on a low dose but I feel like I'm craving sweets all the time and I think this is why I'm not seeing progress. How do I navigate this? Obviously I need to limit sweets but how do I go about this if the craving is really bad? I am recovering from an eating disorder so I have to be careful, I can't cut calories and my dietician doesn't want me completely cutting sweets (or anything) out. I eat fruit already but if I eat this when I'm craving sweets, will it help since it has sugar? The dietician has me eating carbs 6x day and I feel like this has impacted my weight loss too but I could be wrong. Should I increase my workouts? TIA for any advice.

33F. TLDR; How do I deal with this grief that my parents will never be what I need them to be? Does this grief ever go away? I've forgiven my dad, he's changed, but I am having trouble forgiving my mom. I yearn for my parents to be there for me emotionally but they never have been and never will be.

My father was emotionally abusive, sometimes physically, but he changed. He's not the same person anymore and he tries to support me in ways he knows how. I can't sit and talk with him about what's wrong but he'll take me out hunting or fishing to help me feel better and to just spend time together. He tries to listen and can somewhat understand why I get so overwhelmed in certain situations now. I have forgiven him for how he treated me growing up, even though he never apologized.

My mother was getting better but she's digressed. I'm having a hard time forgiving her. I yearn to be able to go to my parents, especially my mother, when i'm not okay. I'm grieving a life i've never had and never will have because my parents aren't capable of being supportive. They can help me financially if needed and babysit my daughter but I have shut everything else out from them and it hurts. My mother has been emotionally abusive, worse than my father, and she still continues to be. I know my parents tried/try, they treat me better than their parents treated them so I am thankful for that. You can't even talk to my mom about her behavior because she gets defensive and says narcissistic, manipulative things. I have tried going to them for my mental health and my mother especially makes it worse. My father just kind of shuts down when he hears I'm not well mentally.

Growing up I knew I needed help by 5th or 6th grade. I asked for a therapist, I knew something wasnt' right with me. There were many signs I was severely depressed. I was even self harming and they responded by yelling at me and making me sleep on their bedroom floor. They didnt' even ask what was wrong, they didn't care. I had signs of bipolar and psychosis by my teenage years and my mother wouldn't let me be medicated for bipolar. THey finally took me to the doctor at age 17 because my neurologist said they had to. The psychiatrist wanted to try the meds before diagnosing me. I was a terrible teenager because of being unmedicated and undiagnosed for bipolar. I understand they had 3 other kids to care for as well but my emotional needs were rarely met. My aunt sexually abused me for years and they told me to just let her, it wasn't harmful.

All of this set me up to think abuse is okay and I had abusive relationships from age 16-30. I forced myself to take a break from dating for 2 1/2 years and now I have my first healthy relationship and the only person who supports me besides my therapist. I have so much trauma to deal with throughout my life that i wont' mention and my brain can't handle trauma therapy.

Does the grief of not having what you want from your parents ever get better? Do you ever deal with and get over your childhood trauma? I keep stupidly trying with my mom. Someone close to me died and I tried to go to my mom for support a couple days ago and she just blew me off. I'm done. I miss my mom but she hurts me and isn't good for my mental health so I limit contact. She makes me feel so small. I don't want this life but I guess it's what I have. I feel like i'm so fucked up from having emotional neglect.

F33, single mom (without the dad in the picture, in case this is relevant) This may be a commonly asked question, i'm sorry if so, i've never been in this subreddit before. I've had a stressful life with a lot of trauma and I have some nervous system disorders on top of it like the dysautonomia and fibromyalgia for example. Can you reset your nervous system or vagus nerve? My body goes into flight or fight mode over the tiniest things like going to the grocery store, making a phone call, going to a concert, etc. How can I stop this or fix it?

I am in therapy and I take medication for various issues. I have a lot of mental and physical health issues. If I started doing yoga daily, would that help? I can't live like this. I do exercise and try meditation most days. I am trying to figure out how to lower the stress in my life but I feel there is something more I need to do. If anyone can help, thank you!

F33, single mom (without the dad in the picture, in case this is relevant) This may be a commonly asked question, i'm sorry if so, i've never been in this subreddit before. I've had a stressful life with a lot of trauma and I have some nervous system disorders on top of it like fibromyalgia for one example. Can you reset your nervous system or vagus nerve? My body goes into flight or fight mode over the tiniest things like going to the grocery store, making a phone call, going to a concert, etc. How can I stop this or fix it?

I am in therapy and I take medication for various issues. I have a lot of mental and physical health issues. If I started doing yoga daily, would that help? I can't live like this. I do exercise and try meditation most days. I am trying to figure out how to lower the stress in my life but I feel there is something more I need to do. If anyone can help, thank you!

F33, single mom (without the dad in the picture, in case this is relevant) This may be a commonly asked question, i'm sorry if so, i've never been in this subreddit before. I've had a stressful life with a lot of trauma and I have some nervous system disorders on top of it like fibromyalgia for one example. Can you reset your nervous system or vagus nerve? My body goes into flight or fight mode over the tiniest things like going to the grocery store, making a phone call, going to a concert, etc. How can I stop this or fix it?

I am in therapy and I take medication for various issues. I have a lot of mental and physical health issues. If I started doing yoga daily, would that help? I can't live like this. I do exercise and try meditation most days. I am trying to figure out how to lower the stress in my life but I feel there is something more I need to do. If anyone can help, thank you!

I need some support. I'm doing this on my own, the father isn't involved. My daughter is 7, 8 in july. She has CPTSD, ADHD, and generalized anxiety disorder. Her anxiety has been so bad she's waking up at 1am, 3am puking for 2 hours straight. The doctor has me monitoring her food intake to make sure it's not a new intolerance she developed but it seems like it's anxiety. She told the doctor everything is fine at school but i asked indirect questions and she's still being bullied. She's too scared to tell the teacher and says the teacher doesn't do anything anyways. I can tell her anxiety has been worse lately. I'm at a loss for what to do and I feel like shit that she's going through this. She's in therapy but i don't think they're working on anything besides talking. i'm going to ask her therapist about working on coping skills in therapy. I feel so alone right now and helpless. Has anyone else gone through something similar?

School is thankfully over in a week but she'll be with the same kids next school year so who knows what will happen.

**I am not asking for medical advice, I've already made an appt with my daughter's PCP, i'm just scared and need support**

My daughter (7, 8 in July) has been having new stomach pain and I didn't think anything of it at first because last year the doctors said she possibly has IBS. I have IBS and get random stomach pain sometimes. Well now she's been having these episodes of vomiting bright yellow that goes on for 1-2 hours and it's usually in the middle of the night. She doesn't vomit every time she gets the pain but while vomiting she has the pain. It seems to start by her belly button and travel down and to the right. I believe at times without vomiting it's been similar pain. I'm scared it's her appendix or something and she'll need surgery. I'm dealing with this on my own as the father isn't in the picture. TIA if anyone reads this and has support or advice.

I will be contacting my daughter’s doctor too but I have a feeling it will take a while to get in. usually a couple months. F7, almost 8. takes guanfacine, melatonin, miralax, and multivitamin. she has anxiety, ptsd, adhd, possible Ehler’s Danlos syndrome, and was born with constipation issues.

every week lately in the middle of the night she wakes up vomiting and one day it was during the day. no other symptoms besides tummy hurting. sometimes she has random tummy pain during the day that comes and goes, I think the right side but I’m not 100% sure. her vomit is always bright yellow. I’m worried about her. this vomiting goes on for 1-2 hours, on and off.

I just need to vent. F33. I have a boatload of mental health issues on top of physical health issues. I'm a single mom, the father isn't in the picture, and my only support for mental health besides my therapist is my boyfriend. We are trying to get my mental health stable again but it's been a struggle because i'm so sensitive. I've tried almost every medication and don't really have any left to try so i'm screwed if it doesn't start helping. I can't increase these dosages either if they stop working. I'm terrified of getting tardive dyskinesthia. I've been taking mental health meds since I was 17. I've been depressed so I feel like a terrible mom, even though my daughter is still taken care of. I feel like a sack of potatoes that lays around.

My house has become a disaster from this depression and my family is making comments on it that are rude. I can barely function. I'm hoping the meds start helping fast. I'm in therapy weekly, I've done DBT, I've done PHP and IOP.

My chronic pain makes me depressed sometimes too. There's nothing left to help my pain either. Somedays it's an 8 or 9 but who cares. Being low income and not being able to even pay all of my bills is making me more depressed too. There's no way to get out of this situation when I can barely work. I've been trying to get on disability but it's a process.

I feel like a waste of space person, I just want to end things. I have OCD, BPD, Anorexia nervosa, body dysmorphia, CPTSD, ADHD, autism, bipolar type 1 with psychosis, anxiety, and depression. A lot of health issues too. I could go on but my post is too long as it is.

F33. There’s like no other meds to try and I’m stable right now but it’s so hard to orgasm. How do I deal with this? Being stable is more important but damn.

F33. There’s like no other meds to try and I’m stable right now but it’s so hard to orgasm. How do I deal with this? Being stable is more important but damn.

He used to be able to make me have multiple orgasms sometimes, especially with his fingers. The last month or so I can't orgasm with him. I almost did last night but since he got there before me, he went limp and fell out. He's been going limp more after getting hard too, which isn't like him. Could this be from stress? We're still attracted to each other and very close emotionally. Sex is still fun but I'd like to orgasm once in a whlie with him. To orgasm, I have to really tense my body sometimes. I Don't understand what's going on. He went down on me the other day and I barely felt anything (which isn't normal). Last night his fingering me barely did anything. I felt an orgasm building for a few seconds then it went away. TIA for any advice.

I'm a nurse in long term care. I worked over the weekend while in psychosis and it was absolutely terrible. The masking was so hard and I almost had several meltdowns at work. That was the beginning. I've had a med change and it's day 4. My psychosis is worse in some ways, better in other ways, and there's literally no way I can go into work tomorrow. I'm afraid to tell them it's because of psychosis. I am going to ask my doctor for a doctor's note so I'll have to have some mental health excuse. What do I say? Anxiety? Idk if that's an excuse to miss work.