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    Advice For My Kids

    a reply to all your input wich is really helpful i need more than 1 brain right now.. Yes thier father is an all aroud good guy he just wasnt for me, he has more help than i do when it comes to our girls, stable and very much able! my worry is me. i feel so out of place without them they are my...
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    Advice For My Kids

    I am looking for advice on what to do with my 2 kids ages 7 and 4 both are girls. i am a suvivor of 3 rapes and 1 horrible uncle a mother and father that didn't care. I do care about my kids and they have more people to help with them than i did however my mental stability is another story, i...
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    Frustrated!!

    Thanks Trapped, I recently had a breakthrough in therapy, she said i am a hypersensitive person so i feel emotions more than most people and it is common with survivors. I am feeling a little better knowing that but i feel like i haven't actually came to terms with my illness. I guess there's no...
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    Frustrated!!

    Okay, I am really frustrated with this site right now it has been so useful for me up until this moment. prepare for me to ramble... I have tried posting a blog to let out my thoughts and can't do it! I tried going into the diaries and it won't let me do that eithier! GRRRRRRRR so i am going to...
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    It Feels Like it Wasnt Me.

    I too feel the same way. I love knowing that we aren't alone in alot of this! I have herd or read somewhere that, it's normal reaction to child abuse, children kinda leave the mind from the situation kinda like blacking out from it. or at least that's how i feel about it....
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    Hi I'm a New Member

    hi naomi! i am also new to the fourum it has helped me a great deal there is lots of support and knowladge here. i too tend to isolate myself and then feel bad for it but sometimes it is best to stay away until you are calm and/or ready. it takes time and it IS NOT easy! good luck and we are all...
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    Breaking Taboo's. An Anecdotal Explanation of Self Harm - And How I Overcame It.

    THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!! i self harmed yesyerday for the first time. I didnt realize excatly what i was doing until it was done and it scared the hell outta me! i'm so happy to have foud this fourum had it not been for your post i would have probably continued it at least until i seen my...
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    Dude! Where's my Mind?

    what i am dealing with now is my restless, depresive, angry, bad in genreal feelings... It seems like I know i'm not a bad mother, housekeeper, and significant other but i feel like i am and i tend to let my fellings override what i know. I cant take critisim eithier, that just makes it worse! I...
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    Need to Vent and Ramble

    Tahnks mick and tammy... I really feel like taking all that out WAS a good thing I don't want to go back!!! what i am dealing with now is my restless, depresive, angry, bad in genreal feelings... It seems like I know i'm not a bad mother, housekeeper, and significant other but i feel like i am...
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    Need to Vent and Ramble

    Okay, today is my second therapy appointment. I look forward to seeing my counsler. I feel thats a good thing however i dont like not knowing whats going to happen. (that goes for anything) last week i was running late so i called ahead, they wanted me to reschedule and i lost it and went into a...
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    Parenting While In Therapy - Suggestions?

    Thank you so very much!! I have been racking my brain trying to figure out what to say to my 7yr old. Your post has helped me! My daughter has been showing a whinny or crying for nothing, and being bossy behavior and i know she senses something from me. I just wasn't sure how to approach it...
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    Home Alone - Stress Induced Anxiety

    I agree with everyone else and i too try to do all those things. However I seem to run into road blocks :wall: such as, when I step back or step away, go in my room door closed alone to try to "breath in the calm and out the confusion" I feel like i am isolating myself then i get even more upset...
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    News Stress And The Skin

    I have cystic acne and have had it since i was 12 when my trauma started it has gotten extremly worse over the years and at the end of 2007 i decided to go to a dermatologist since i got medicaid. the first cyst she drained was tested and found out i had staph in it. I wondered how long i had...
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    Poll Do You Believe That Ptsd Effects The Way You Operate In Society?

    I hate large crowds. I will get in the store do half my shopping and if it gets crowded i will have to just leave. It feels like all those people are breathing all the air and i am going to suffocate. Partys are not for me. Loud noises. They make my heart race and my head hurt then i feel...
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    Poll Do You Sleep With Alot Of Covers?

    I really like to have a heavy cover. I even have this 3xl thick robe i carry around the house it comforts me and at night i sleep with that in a ball and my teddy with 1 sheet and this like3in thick comforter. Hmmm maybe that's how they got the name comforter, because they're comforting!!
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    What Bad Shit Have You Done - Daily, As it Comes To You, Your Past, Lets Be Honest

    cheated on high school sweethart numerous amounts of times he even takes care of my 2 kids that he didn't father! i 2 was a stripper and sold cocaine as well as did my product! drank drank and drank somemore. tried overdosing on darvacets, recently tried hanging myself! (that's what put me in...
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    My Traumatic Childhood is Destroying my Adulthood

    welcome! I have simialiar issues. i've just recently started trying not to be a victim or a suvivor but a conquerer. at least that's what i'm telling my brain! It's very hard... my mother just stoped mothering when my grandmother died i was 12. I've always been angry about it just recently i've...
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    Dude! Where's my Mind?

    thanks for all the warm welcomes!:smile: I have noticed that its a little bit easier to talk than before everythings out in the open now.. Sorry if i offended anyone with my "worse" mcomment, i was ignorant to the fact that PTSD is PTSD. I never thought of it like that. Also, i tend have the...
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    New Here - Raped in my Own House

    I agree with everyone above. I'd like to add that there's a book and a workbook my therapist recomended and it has a workbook also "The courage to heal" by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis. I'm currently alternating both and they've been very helpful... Wish you all the best!!:thumbs-up
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    Wanderin' Round Trying to Find Some Sense

    Hey Indigo!:hello: Welcome! I'm also a mother and got abreveations!:crazy:I hope you can get the help you need too. I understand how it is not having the help you need.:wall: Best wishes!:thumbs-up
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    Dude! Where's my Mind?

    Hey Ya'll!!!:hello: My name is, Lacey. I'm originally from Mobile Alabama. currently living in New Orleans Louisiana. I'm 24 yrs old. I was diagnosed with PTSD at the begining of this month (apr. 2008). I'm in an unusually good mood at this moment.. I geuss i'll just come out and tell you...
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    Seeking Information / Opinions / Whatever

    I found this definition through google. I had no idea what it was but now I'm interested! Hope it helps you... Sensorimotor Psychotherapy is a body-centred psychotherapy that makes it possible for clients to discover the habitual and automatic attitudes, both physical and psychological, by...
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    What Are You Feeling Today? Not Thinking, Rather Feeling! Can You Identify Yours?

    I feel confused, not too bad but not too good.. I feel alone. scared of what the future holds 4 me. happy that i've managed to make it this far. I feel "just here".......
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