Disrespect! Oh, this is a big one for me. Whether it's directed at me or someone else, it gets my adrenaline flowing and I get very anxious. I've lived with this all my life. I wish I knew where it came from.
I have a chronic pain disorder and the doctor has recently switched me from Darvocet to Ultram. I was researching Ultram online and found that in addition to being a pain med, it also works in the same way as an anti-depressant. Some people have found it to be helpful. I was just wondering if...
I have not taken anything specifically for PTSD since this whole idea is so new to me.
I have treated depression quite successfully with daily doses of 5-HTP as well as the homeopathic Ignatia Imara occassionally.
I take milk thistle on a daily basis becasue I have been on narcotic pain...
Thank you for the information Mina. I will check out the links you posted. I have been medicating quite sucessfully with herbals for about 25 years. I do understand the concerns with these remedies. Thank you for cautioning me. :)
I'm good about crying.......does that sound right? I'm an emotional person. I don't hold back my tears. I let them flow as they may. I am crying now as I go thru these polls and realize more and more about PTSD.
Sometimes I can read and re-read a sentence and not understand it. When I do read, I must be calm and I must do so in a completely quiet atmosphere. Even the ticking of the wall clock is enough to distrurb my reading.
Yes! Under tense conditions I want to run away. I do not want to be part of tense situations and I just want to run away. I hate the way a tense situation makes me feel.
Marijuana is the only illegal drug I've ever taken. I quit about 18yrs ago when I stopped drinking. To this day, I recall how much better I felt when I smoked pot. I've since tried it again in the past year and the effects seemed too insense for me, even in the very smallest amount. In years...
I have never physically attempted suicide. Altho, there have been times when the stress has been so bad that as I lay in bed at night, I'd be thinking how nice it would be not to wake up in the morning.
I suffer from upper torso pain. Neck, arms and shoulders, but I'm not consciously aware that I clench up there. I'm quite sure I must. I have caught myself in a full body clench in bed on a number of occassions, as I was trying to relax in bed before going to sleep.
I'm an aspiring writer and photographer. I've been writing all my life and in the past year have discovered a love for photograhy. As the result of photography, I feel I will never see the world in the same way as before. Everything now has become some form of beauty and I see beauty in...
In addition to the above I also wanted to mention that during times of emotional stress, my thoughts feel short circuted. If I try to talk it's as tho I can't get the words to come out. Can't think of the right words. I have always likened this to short circuiting because that's how it feels...
My bf tells me that my memory is awful. He says I frequently ask the same questions. For the longest time I thought it was him exagerating, but I'm begining to think I have memory problems. I also have to keep notes in order to remember stuff. It seems there is always so much going on in my...