Once again, I can relate. Although for me, it doesn't feel like I'm burying my past. It was so automatic. Everything just got buried somehow. I was so intent on becoming popular at school, then going on to become a lawyer or a film maker. I am nothing, professionally. At 46 I am very angry...
Thank you for the words "someday is now." That is my motto. I will strive to remember it on those days when my brain tells me:
"What are you doing? You are FINE. You don't need to withdraw from a busy, outward oriented life in order to heal. Just be good and do what you're supposed to do...
What Next?
OK, I've introduced myself, looked around... I need to "establish" myself, but I don't seem to be able to start new topics. I am a new member that wants to talk about Complex PTSD...any takers?
:crazy: For instance, how does one begin to change? How does one get past the...
I belong here
This is the first time I have been in a community where others understand the nightmaresl I went through as a child. I'm so sorry we all have this fallout in our lives. I'm glad I'm not alone, but I am sad that so many can relate. :think:
This is almost my story with my mother verbatim, but unlike you, Gma, Herc, my mother is in denial and still very sick. She would get furious with me when I would pull away. Neither of us understood it, but I suspected its because I cannot trust her.
Her own wounded-ness is so deep and she...
No, its my psychic pain that seems to intensify in winter. Perhaps its a trigger of some sort.
Having talked to the folks at the treatment facility a bit today, I'm leaning toward going. Money is an issue, of course. Praying praying praying that our insurance company "approves" and chips...
Hi everyone,
I'm not sure I will stay on this forum, but I had to sign up to look around so here I am.
I began having symptoms of...something...when I was 18. Back then, it looked like OCD, then depression. I have had many episodes of depression throughout my life. Have been in counseling...