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    Trusting Your Gut, AKA Maybe it's Not Paranoia

    In an abusive relationship, your brain shuts down your emotions, then shuts down your gut to survive. For some, once their gut is shut down, they get hit every day and never leave, and even die. Thank God my gut was still working to some degree, enough to get us out. When my gut thawed out...
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    Why Do I Look Different When I am Triggered?

    The other day my kid said "Why do your eyes look small?" Actually I had noticed this during my last big episode. I thought I looked horrible. Like I was dehydrated or something, sunken eyes and all. Is this like a physical manifestation of what's going on in the body or something? Or just lack...
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    Do You Notice a Pattern/Cycle?

    How does your cycle go and how do you stop it? I'm still figuring out my cycle...I know that part of it is... ...hypervigilance, fog, depression... There's probably stuff before and after it that I haven't identified. I had figured out some ways of short circuiting some of them sometimes...
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    Do You Notice a Pattern/Cycle?

    Do you cycle, and when you start do you notice a pattern? Is it the same everytime?
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    Nightmares are Back

    I think that it's more about the present and future if that's possible. Having a hard time getting out of the house and getting anything done...now I'm in that frozen mode. Sigh.
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    Nightmares are Back

    The divorce was final recently and of course he is worse than before...screaming at me, then no communication... (we have kids, so we have to communicate to some degree). The sleeplessness and nightmares are back, not quite to the point of waking up in a panic yet, but almost. I'm hoping they...
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    Paranoia - Just a Tad!

    So does it get easier to recognize when you are being triggered at the moment that it is happening? And can you do anything to stop it? It's complicated because the things that trigger me would be legitimate concerns...it's just like my brain/body totally overreact. It usually takes someone...
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    Paranoia - Just a Tad!

    Does anyone else have problems with paranoia? I feel like everybody has something to hide, that they are lying, not who they say they are, etc... What can I do about this?
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    I Want It To Stop - The Pain of Symptoms

    So how do we do it? How do we trust, how do we stop from being triggered? It seems like I get over one trigger, just to be triggered by something else.
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    I Want It To Stop - The Pain of Symptoms

    I have been out of the abusive situation for over a year now. Earlier this year I started to 'thaw out.' It was intense. I want the overly intense emotions to stop, I want the paranoia switch to stop flipping...I want ALL the weird symptoms to stop flipping at will because of some obscure...
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    Hello, Reintroduction

    Hello all, I am a former member but was locked out somehow and couldn't figure out how to get back in, so I reregistered. Sorry for the confusion, but it's actually just as well since my soon to be ex is cyberstalking me. The question I wanted to ask is...do any of you have problems with...
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