Did you ever feel you couldn't speak?

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I thought I could never succeed in the outside world after I began thinking I couldn’t speak. A trauma silenced me. I am now understanding it so I think I might get heard a little better now.

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I used to have dreams of trying to speak with my mouth shut. I’d wake myself up trying to do this. It likely had something to do with my family that didn’t like me expressing myself on the web. I blew my lid at my sister in reality when she proceeded to tell me what I mustn’t talk about on Facebook. I used the ■■■■ word a number of times, shouting into the receiver. So what I did then was just to make a ton more posts on my WordPress account starting a year ago. Like everybody, I have a strange family, thankfully replaced now by a foster family of my choosing that really cares about me…

So, yes, to answer the question.

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When I had my first major depressive episode I stopped talking to people. I just lost interest in social interaction. When I regained it, I found I didn’t remember how to talk to people anymore. Took me years to get back to about 85% normal there.

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The home I’m in is like having a foster family. It’s a good thing.

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It really is. Thanks for saying so. I have a good church and I made friends in group. Have a next-door neighbor who’s good to me. I have followers on WP and the gang here on the forum. People aren’t hell to each other after all.

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Next, it’ll be time to make amends to my sister’s family if I can. Dunno. I must remember that I can’t mind read what they’re up to now. Also, I know I said a lot of mean things when I drank. Hard knowing how these things got started… Thanks for listening.

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I think most of we mentally ill have to tread lightly because we’ve behaved badly when we were sick.

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I go mute sometimes when I get too stressed or scared. I’m normally pretty quiet when I go out in public.

And i have an alter that never speaks as far as i know shes completely mute.

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I’ve had quite a few dreams where I tried to speak and I couldn’t. What a dream interpreter would make of that is anyone’s guess.

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