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    Is aging making CPTSD Recovery harder for anyone?

    I am 70 now and feel I am slowly fading away in many ways. 10 years ago, when diagnosed, I found help with methods suggested here, in therapy and general reading.....offering just enough help to make it half-way and sometimes all the way through a day. It seems like my brain is connecting with...
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    Childhood Born in the wrong place at the wrong time - Struggling with loneliness & rejection, isolation & insecurity, seeking connection.

    Pauly86, I relate. I am 70 years old and have faked my way through personal encounters my whole life and continue to do so. It is good to hear from others who experience the same, so I don't feel like the only one. It is a human condition, unfortunately. I understand how i got this way and i...
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    Which Cultural Virtue/Gold Ring Has PTSD Reversed For You?

    I definitely fit in here. As I stumble through daily breathing/living, the next necessary thing, the next WTF thought, the next I Do give a hoot thought..... the main thought that makes any sense on any given day is the reality and truth that I am a person with CPTSD. Without all the info...
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    I'm wondering how many are using wine to calm panic/anxiety? If so, is it helping?

    My panic has been so intense that I have started using wine after a long time of sobriety and many psyche meds. I already know alcohol is generally frowned upon so not looking for a lecture, my mind is already filled with lectures around this. I am looking to hear from those who find a little...
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    The physical side effects of ptsd…

    I have started drinking wine lately after quite a few years of sobriety...the panic is just too much.
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    Difficulty integrating into society

    I relate to your anxiety and confusion experience as well as your feeling far away from everyone 100%! Though I have had different life experiences than you. I continue daily to use tools to aid in making it through the day , counting each effort (though un-seen by those I pass by, as some...
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    People scare me so much that I shake when they are near

    I am so sorry about all you have gone through😞 Words are not enough.
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    People scare me so much that I shake when they are near

    yeah, not considering myself a victim is a good route to go. If I felt I had the energy I could read about tips for getting along with others, etc....since I am not the only one with this issue. for me, it is about not feeling like I have an identity and feeling like everyone else is somehow...
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    People scare me so much that I shake when they are near

    thanks arfie. i like your perspective and it basically is how i am handling my aloneness vs interaction. I realize being alone for too long without interaction puts me in a bad headspace where negativity and paranoia creep in. When I do check-in with other humans, often I walk away feeling...
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    People scare me so much that I shake when they are near

    i seem to be getting worse. The only people I am around anymore are my son and his family and even being around them makes me shake. I understand what happened to me to make me this way, so afraid of people. I was able to wear a mask and interact with people for many years. Now, they trigger...
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    Abusive Family and Roots of Trauma

    I can definitely relate to most of the experiences you mentioned! Thanks for sharing, helped me today.
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    Sufferer Isolating and struggling to cope

    I identify with your struggle. Some days I tremble a lot and am pretty non-functional and definitely hide from people. It has been going on for years so I understand the frustration of one step forward etc. I just have to take a day at a time and see what my nervous system will allow. It makes...
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    Abandoning Self

    I really desire to learn to do this.
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    You Know You Have PTSD When...

    ....you and your dog go on a new hiking trail and encounter absolutely no-one else then decide you had such a wonderful time with no triggers at all and must go to that same trail every day and hike for 2 or 3 hours or more
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    Thoughts of life.

    i can relate.... time flys and there seems to be no way to make it stand still
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    Identifying avoidance

    I totally relate to the anxiety it causes when i walk out the door and cringe at the thought of another human being seeing me or a possible interaction. I know where it comes from (way long ago) but knowing does not help the feelings of anxiety and disassociation i experience daily after all...
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    Identifying avoidance

    I can relate to this thread. I find I feel more normalized since everyone else needs to isolate also, though for different reasons than I usually do. I have to work hard not to go down into the pit emotionally. I have to turn off the news at a certain point several times a day. The hike with my...
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    My social anxiety is diminished with Social Isolation in place

    whiteraven,yes, my therapist and I are meeting via computer. this "avoidance of people" thing is so deep with so many tentacles. I am fully realizing, during this pandemic situation, that I do like human contact and I have always found my own special ways of interacting despite all my...
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    News Worldwide impact of the novel coronavirus (covid-19)

    just watched a press conference and was yelling at my computer at the absurdness i heard ...telling people to take the medicine that is not even approved yet just to name one..................i was telling him to quit making excuses and blaming people, quit all the gaslighting,......we need a...
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    My social anxiety is diminished with Social Isolation in place

    I find myself dreading the day that society goes back to normal. Not that I like the horrible impact on health and lives and economy, etc. of this pandemic. I have noticed I feel very comfortable knowing I don't have to interact with others. I usually feel so awkward and distant from others when...
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    Ketamine vs TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation)

    update. i had my last treatment last friday and it is sunday now. i believe it was of great help and i am seeing some new ways of thinking, being and behaving in a short period of time. I am very hopeful that this a treatment that will be instrumental in treating massive amounts of sufferers. i...
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    Ketamine vs TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation)

    good to know, rainman8772!!
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    Ketamine vs TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation)

    glad the nasal is helping with suicidal thoughts joeylittle. yes, my clinic has the same requirements on having someone pick you up. fortunately i have a daughter, son, and friend available especialy during the virus they are even more available. i walked there yesterday, it took 45 minutes and...
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    Ketamine vs TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation)

    thanks for your input joeylittle. gosh, a lot has happened with me (and the world) since March 8, just over 2 weeks ago since I posted last here about ketamine. My TMS doc shut his practice down for clients a week ago Monday, after receiving 12 treatments. That was the day I had been...
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    Ketamine vs TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation)

    BeTheLight Everything I am learning about Ketamine, I imagine it helped your grandmother and gave her some relief. Maybe the people around her considered it abuse but that would have been before it was studied and now regularly used for people with mental illness..... that's my take on it...
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