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                        <title>A Potential Girlfriend??</title>
                        <link>https://www.healthypages.co.uk/community/general-health-ailments-mental-emotional/a-potential-girlfriend/</link>
                        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 16:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Hi All, I hope you are well and fighting fit?
1 month and 3 weeks ago this week I walked passed a lady who came out of her working place and almost immediately we clicked by making eye cont...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span>Hi All, I hope you are well and fighting fit?</span></p>
<p><span>1 month and 3 weeks ago this week I walked passed a lady who came out of her working place and almost immediately we clicked by making eye contact and smiling at each other but one of her work colleagues came out as well just seconds later and got talking to her for a few minutes and whilst they were doing that I had to contend with two blonde haired men who kept on staring at me for no reason what-so-ever, well unless they deliberately wanted me to feel very uncomfortable and embarrassed and in some cases they did succeed!; but anyway after the two ladies had chatted for some strange reason the lady who I clicked with, just suddenly walked away from me without even introducing herself?!</span></p>
<p><span>I have been wanting to go to her workplace again on the day we had met each week for: 1 month and 3 weeks but fate had other plans for me because I am an unpaid live in carer for my grandma and so I have been looking after her and her home by doing all of the chores that needed to be completed and her car broke down twice and in the end her car needed a new battery fitted!</span></p>
<p><span>But during last week I did manage to walk passed the ladies work place again and I heard two of her lady colleagues talking about me saying â€œthat is him who had supposedly ignored our lady colleague even though she fancied him because he ignored her but we would tell him when she would be working next; due to changing her timetable because of now going to college but he would have to talk to us first of course either today, next week or the week after that as that would be our cut off point!!â€�.</span></p>
<p><span>So this week I did manage to walk as far as the outer area of where they work but unfortunately my social anxiety kicked in because: What if those two ladies made me feel twice as uncomfortable and embarrassed just like those two blonde haired men did to me? therefore making me speak in my effeminate voice like I normally do when I am anxious, very faintly, mumble, not make any sense at all and just finding myself completely running away from the situation!!</span></p>
<p><span>I then said to myself â€œI know that you have been single for a while and you do not normally like change do you? although you are the only person who is still single in your family but in hind sight you would like to get married and have at least: 1x child of your own!!, you are scared of confrontation and making a complete idiot of yourself just like a clown would! and you can try to get a ladies attention by flirting with them but when it comes to the next stage you just want to run away from the ladies instead?? what a complete loser you are!!â€� so if you were me what would you do?Â  I wish that I could be saying this to a physical friend or friends but I have a bad history when it comes to making new friends because they always let me down in some way e.g. by disappearing, insulting me, telling me it is my fault and not theirs and also blaming me when it comes to them breaking the law due to getting caught!</span></p>
<p><span>Thank you all for taking the time in reading this and I look forward to your replies.</span></p>
<p><span>All the very best,</span></p>
<p><span>TheBattle2009</span></p>]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>Coronavirus vaccine side effects query.</title>
                        <link>https://www.healthypages.co.uk/community/general-health-ailments-mental-emotional/coronavirus-vaccine-side-effects-query/</link>
                        <pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2021 13:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi everyone,</p>
<p>I do hope that you are all staying safe and looking after yourselves and others..... I wish that I could say that I was also looking after myself well but it is becoming increasingly difficult, because since my second Coronavirus vaccine nearly 2 weeks ago now it is giving me nasty side effects such as: bad headaches, making me move and think slowly so whatever I do it takes me twice as long to bloody do it!</p>
<p>Making me think very negatively, continuously having a go at myself, 2x magnified anxiety and depression due to still being deliberately bullied, harassed, neglected and abused by my family, feeling threatened, feeling like a prisoner, on a knifes edge so to speak and I have also been getting horrible flashbacks when it comes to my unreported mental and physical child abuse by my disowned father which started from the age of just: 6 to the age of 14 years old (when I decided to live with my mother’s parents); on top of this I am also having to deal with being diagnosed with Asthma which is a type of lung disease since: 2020 (during the very first UK Coronavirus Lockdown, that was bad timing!).</p>
<p>So I was wondering if any of you have had these types of side effects from your Covid-19 vaccine?, how long they lasted for? and how you dealt with them?</p>
<p>Take care and stay safe everyone.</p>
<p>All the very best,</p>
<p>TheBattle2009</p>]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>Been stabbed in the back by my own CBT Therapist!</title>
                        <link>https://www.healthypages.co.uk/community/general-health-ailments-mental-emotional/been-stabbed-in-the-back-by-my-own-cbt-therapist/</link>
                        <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2021 15:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>I hope you are staying safe and what a year I have had when it comes to last year and now this year because since: 05/05/2020 (during the first UK Lockdown) I have been diagnosed with having Asthma which is a type of lung disease, no thanks to an innocent coughing cold that I had for: 9 weeks like I sadly usually get each year!; which triggered off my Asthma as thankfully after I had a Covid-19 swab test it came back negative.</p>
<p>Since yesterday morning (13/06/2021) my very own grandmother turned my CBT Therapist against me even though I did her a favour of allowing her to see my CBT Therapist for years now, because my grandmother is still finding it very difficult in dealing with her senile dementia as she sees things that are not real and thinks that her own family are turning against her including me which is just untrue!</p>
<p>Because my grandmother managed to manipulate and brainwash my CBT Therapist (due to telephoning her) into thinking that I had locked my grandmother out of her own home, so my CBT Therapist text messaged me by saying that my grandmother sounded distressed and would I let her in as you know how mentally ill and frail she is and then threatened me by saying if I did not she would call the police, to force me into letting my grandmother into her own home.</p>
<p>Then continued to bomb me with other slanderous text messages by also accusing me of harassing and threatening my own grandmother who is frail which cannot be allowed to happen, as otherwise she will get the police to safe guard my grandmother and if I do not stop, there will be big trouble mister! then more than an hour later my CBT Therapist continued to slander my name and reputation by asking me if my own grandmother need medical attention??</p>
<p>My CBT Therapist did not like reading my sarcastic text message reply as I put them straight by saying “you call yourself a CBT Therapist but you do not know how to diagnose or deal with a person with senile dementia, because my grandmother had locked herself out of her own home and could not find her front door key which was in her trouser pocket all along!, so yes I did naturally let her in again but please feel free to call the police as they will just laugh at your slanderous text messages especially when you slanderously accused me of threatening and harassing my own grandmother who is frail!</p>
<p>How you can accuse me of harassing and threatening my own grandmother is beyond me!, are you sure you do not have dementia as well?, she does not need to be safe guarded by the police as she needs to be locked up in a Mental Health Hospital and I also know someone else who needs to follow as well and that she was not the only one who needed psychological medical attention!, as you can imagine I did not receive a text message reply as my CBT Therapist went all quiet on me and did not even have the respect to apologise to me for their slanderous remarks!</p>
<p>Even though for years I have been telling my CBT Therapist that my family as a whole treats me like the runt of a litter including my mentally ill grandmother, just because I am a good person who respects others but them on the other hand are evil and poisonous narcissistic psychopaths who deliberately causes fights within our family and at least half of our family have moved abroad to be able to completely disown our family and as I am one of life’s losers and victims I have been unable to move on with my life even to be able to disown my own evil and poisonous family which includes my own grandmother therefore I am forced to endure it!</p>
<p>What do you think I should do with my life? as I do not know what to do anymore because I am always stuck between a rock and a hard place therefore I cannot be freed!, should I start off by removing my CBT Therapist from my life?</p>
<p>Thank you all for taking the time in reading this and I look forward to your replies.</p>
<p>All the very best and take care,</p>
<p>TheBattle2009</p>]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>Internal landscapes - External reality</title>
                        <link>https://www.healthypages.co.uk/community/general-health-ailments-mental-emotional/internal-landscapes-external-reality/</link>
                        <pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2019 22:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[The terrain inside me described
“Keep out”
The fabric of external reality around me described
“Heaven sent”
Which one is?
Alpha
Omega
Two worlds beside
One that is fed up of being trapped inside
One that is free to reach out to life
Both are living on a knife
And then beyond the relinquished emotional tide
A salient realization is made
My inside &amp; outside are poles apart
Yet both have access to a caring heart
My existence forges two unlikely halves
I’m no longer living a life in parts
I’m north, east, south &amp; west
I’m knees, toes, head &amp; chest
Forgive me now as I take a rest
This journey is sweeping me off my feet
and yet all the parts of me I get to keep!]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>To end painful memories</title>
                        <link>https://www.healthypages.co.uk/community/general-health-ailments-mental-emotional/to-end-painful-memories/</link>
                        <pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2019 10:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[I'm posting this hoping it may help someone out there. The author suffered from diagnosed PTSD until she began to search for her spiritual identity.

I loved this wonderful realisation that she had:

"I realized at that moment that the memory was a thought I didn’t have to nurture and hang on to as part of me forever. I could choose to discard it. So that’s what I did. I resolved to release it. That very day, it lost its hold on me. Within a couple of days, the sense of burden and pain was gone completely."

<b>To end painful memories </b>]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>Cursed; will I ever get a girlfriend??</title>
                        <link>https://www.healthypages.co.uk/community/general-health-ailments-mental-emotional/cursed-will-i-ever-get-a-girlfriend/</link>
                        <pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2019 23:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hi all, hope you are all well.....

I have been really depressed recently as when I look back at my love life or the nonexistence of one, well apart from a 6 month relationship with a lovely girl when I was 12 years old. But our relationship ended due to her being unhealthily obsessed about the way she looked and did I love her?! Asking me this nearly every 10 minutes for 6 months which seriously did my head in!

Don’t know whether this has been a curse or not but since this experience I have never been able to attract women, on or offline not even when it comes to using my wingmen and wingwomen and no I do not complain about it to my potential dates in fact I keep it to myself! I feel really cursed in staying single for the rest of my life as no woman seems to want to go out with me and this has been going on for 23 years this year as I am 35 years old this year!

Some would say I could be clinically depressed because my own disowned brother has a child of his own out of wedlock and he is only 25 years old this year!, My female cousin who is 36 years old has two children who are 5 and 1 years old and married!! and her sister who is 29 years old is getting married this year in Rome, Italy!

So everyone is moving on with their lives in my family apart from me! sometimes I feel as though I do not belong on planet earth at all and sometimes I just want to end this nightmare as I am just so pissed off with being single for 23 freaking years!! What the hell can I do to break this godforsaken curse?? especially as I am not the most ugliest man in the UK, or on earth and can make both male and female friends easily!!

Please help me.....

All the very best,

Oliver]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>Anxiety</title>
                        <link>https://www.healthypages.co.uk/community/general-health-ailments-mental-emotional/anxiety-7/</link>
                        <pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 08:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Can anyone advise on this.
As a soul when I hit 7/8 this was the age where I noticed I started to develop anxiety complexes.
Before then I was more carefree, less worried about life and rare...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Can anyone advise on this.
As a soul when I hit 7/8 this was the age where I noticed I started to develop anxiety complexes.
Before then I was more carefree, less worried about life and rarely felt any kind of stress, emotional pain or anxiety in random situations out and about in the everyday world around other people.

I guess I would have felt traumas from inside family issues though which would be normal but not the anxiety issues around others and everyday life situations.

Growing up in a physical body and getting used to this earth plane as you become more conscious inside your body is tough.]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>Broken</title>
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                        <pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2019 19:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Hi all, title says it all, I am completely broken.

please help]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hi all, title says it all, I am completely broken.

please help]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>Potential girlfriend problems on a Social Network.</title>
                        <link>https://www.healthypages.co.uk/community/general-health-ailments-mental-emotional/potential-girlfriend-problems-on-a-social-network/</link>
                        <pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2018 20:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hi all hope you are keeping well.

I need some womanly advice please as last year I met a lady on a social media network where we both clicked, but unfortunately she had only just split up with her previous boyfriend and said to me “please give me a year to recover from my last relationship then we will go on our ‘first date’”. So I agreed and during that time I kept in touch with her by liking her posts, she did the same with my posts, occasionally I posted comments which were humorous, witty and friendly and have been chivalrous on many occasions.

As obviously the last thing I need to do is upset her in anyway as it could go against me when she is ready to date men again and have a relationship with, 4 months ago she stopped liking my posts and became robotic when she replied to some of my posted comments. A year has only just passed I left her a private message just saying “I cannot believe that a year has passed so quickly can you? and thanked her for her follow and post likes”. 24 hours has passed and she has not replied back at all but has been active on her profile as she has been liking other peoples posts. On other public social media networks (which I am not following; as I do not want to be seen as a pervert!) she said “I am not ready for a relationship yet but I should be ready next year in 2019 so why not ask me then”.

In her defence I cannot see her going on dates until after her birthday in March 2019 what really annoys me is that she has made no contact with me and has liked someone else’s post which says “I wish I had a boyfriend or husband because I am not strong all of the time”. On several occasions I have offered to go out on a date with her but she said “I am not ready yet” because we seem to connect in some way being boyfriend and girlfriend material. I know that women can be confusing to us men sometimes especially as most of my family are women and have been told that the eldest grandchild (me) normally has baby girls when having children which has even been proven within my family!

So I would like some advice on what to do please? e.g. leave her another message and hope she replies, leave her alone by giving her some space and hope she not only becomes less emotional but heals from her previous relationship and asks me out on a date next year (as I have already stopped liking her posts, posting my usual comments and stopped posting on my social media network; as I do not want to upset her). I do think I am taking her actions more personally than I should do because she could be my first ever girlfriend and I am in my 30’s, due to my evil and poisonous family who kept me from living my own life. Also a father who stalked me whilst I lived just down the road from where he lived for 16 years..... but still here to tell the horrible nightmare.

I look forward to your replies.

All the very best,

TheBattle2009]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>*D.I.D* DISOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER</title>
                        <link>https://www.healthypages.co.uk/community/general-health-ailments-mental-emotional/d-i-d-disociative-identity-disorder/</link>
                        <pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2018 02:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[I&#039;m new here my name is Denise nice to me everybody I&#039;m not sure if I&#039;m doing this right or wrong but well here goes nothing I wanted to talk about something called did it&#039;s dissociative ide...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[I'm new here my name is Denise nice to me everybody I'm not sure if I'm doing this right or wrong but well here goes nothing I wanted to talk about something called did it's dissociative identity disorder it's just something that you would call or refer to better known as personality disorder and I have that I am 27 years old I am a single Mommy I don't work I'm looking for a job but I have really bad anxiety problems and I have also different personalities so it's very hard for me to fit into the mundane world and I just feel like I don't fit in I don't belong like I need to be somewhere else but then other times I feel so vibrant so happy full of life like this is exactly where I need to be so it kind of sucks having to live with so many personalities..... well I'm not even sureif I did this properly if anyone would like to talk or share a little more I'm here.. n if I did this all wrongI do apologize as well thank you]]></content:encoded>
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