Happy Birthday Anthony!
Thank you so much for being born. You've done something very remarkable with this forum and have helped sooo many people.
Wishing you long life, and the fulfillment of your highest aspirations. Enjoy your life. We do.
sky
Hi Teddy,
Take heart. You're among friends. Welcome to the forum. I'm a PTSD survivor and I'm married to saint, (for over 26 years) like you are.
At the same time, I work very hard on my recovery. I've seen a therapist who does EMDR for three years, I use Buddhist meditation to work with...
Gee,
Here's a club I have mixed feelings about joining. I've a real problem with my anger too. That's all I can say for now. I'm so sick of it I can't even write about it now.
sky
Hi Ted,
Welcome to the forum. Thanks for your service (both you and Sean). Any of us with PTSd owe a debt of gratitude toward combat service men and women. Without you trail blazers, PTSD wouldn't be recieving the attention and research it is now.
Looking forward to reading your posts and...
I know so little about losing a limb that I just googled it. There is a book written by a logger named Gary Edinger called "Will to Live: A Saga of Survival.
Not suggesting you read it or anything, just sharing what I've found in my first google attempt to learn more about your situation...
Hi Ed,
Welcome to the forum. That's alot to deal with. I cannot imagine what it would be like to lose a limb. That's got to be one of the most challenging situations I've ever heard of for coming to wholeness. You're grieving. Have you and/or your wife seen a therapist? My partner and I...
superjen and anthony--
Good description of the difference between DID and PTSD dissociation. I know I've had dissociative strategies since I was a young child. When my abusive foster mother, (my aunt), would seat me down for a 'round table discussion', which was this very confrontative ritual...
Welcome to the forum. I'm looking forward to getting to know you further. You've had a number of traumatic experiences in your life, and now you have a secondary trauma going on with your dear friend.
I may be wrong, but I think anthony generally suggests you either post as a trauma survivor...
Welcome to the forum. I'm so sorry for what happened to you and your child. It wasn't your fault. You're quite right that it was an injury caused by a doctor.
You've come to the right place. Lot's of support for you here.
Hi Just me,
I just wanted to offer you a few words of encouragement and a 'hang in there'. I thought my 'main trauma' was an assault that touched off the PTSD. It turns out my main trauma is from childhood violence and psychological abuse. I fought my therapist over that but he kept not...
My sister and I see our childhood abuse by our foster aunt differently. My sister is two and a half years younger than I am and she bonded with my aunt as if my aunt was her mother and called her mom. My sister tows the party line that my aunt did the best she could and had our best interests...
I've used EMDR in my sessions with the therapist a number of times. We spent a lot of time just building a safe place to escape to and a mental support group before going into trauma reduction.
I've gotten better about telling him when I have had enough of it and need to come out.
We've used...
Taking a shower is a good idea. It use it myself to make transitions and kind of wash away a mood. It sometimes workds.
I see my therapist today. I tried to call my sister last night and my stomache was in a knot the whole time. Luckily, she didn't answer. Our last conversation two weeks...
I'm so happy to read this thread. To get to the point of feeling the absence of suicidal ideation is wonderful. My therapist says that progress shows itself often as the absence of something.
I had a dissociative episode last year that resulted in a kind of suicide attempt. (Took pills and...
That seems huge to me. I've had times when showering and dressing werer too much for me. Where my partner had noticed I had swept up some dirt in a corner but didn't pick it up for over a week. Same thing with leaving the laundry in the dryer for a week.
It's hard for most people to...
Funny, I got into freecell and solitraire for awhile and then became addicted by positng on political forums. I spent a lot of time arguing with people. It was some weird way for me to express my aggression toward strangers and I thought I was being altruistic, always defending the underdog...
Hey, that's quite an accomplishment! Navigating snowy roads for anyone is a big deal. For someone who's had a traumatic car accident it's nothing short of miraculous.
You're doing so well. A little shaking is to be expected. Bravo!
Hey James,
I am mighty impressed. I can barely boil water. Great work to overcome the past trauma and put your own loving energy into nourishing yourself.
My partner and I are having 'Jewish Christma'. Chinese food and a movie.
In past years, my partner and I made it a practice of going to silent Buddhist meditation retreats over the holidays.