nov_silence
MyPTSD Pro
Just wanted to introduce myself. My name is Antoinette and I was diagnosed with PTSD three years ago. I most recently had to go on medical leave from my school counseling job at the end of the academic year. I worked at a bookstore for less than two months before I was in the hospital in September. That was the third hopsital visit in the past three years (the second one this year)
I was physically and psychologically abused by my parents;esp my mother. I was also sexually abused when I between the second and third grade.
It's been really hard not working, but I needed the time to do intensive outpatient. i now need to re-start individual counseling, but I am in the process of finding a new counselor. I miss working as a counselor... miss my students a whole lot, but I am doing the right thing for myself... for the first time in my life. And trying to not feel guilty about it.
I hope to be working within the next week doing temp stuff. Taking it easy. Hopefully by the spring I will start looking at counseling jobs again.
I have been depressed as long as I can remember. Anxiety really took hold in the past three years. Medication helps
I live in Maryland with my three dogs and my husband. He also struggles with PTSD. :hello:
I was physically and psychologically abused by my parents;esp my mother. I was also sexually abused when I between the second and third grade.
It's been really hard not working, but I needed the time to do intensive outpatient. i now need to re-start individual counseling, but I am in the process of finding a new counselor. I miss working as a counselor... miss my students a whole lot, but I am doing the right thing for myself... for the first time in my life. And trying to not feel guilty about it.
I hope to be working within the next week doing temp stuff. Taking it easy. Hopefully by the spring I will start looking at counseling jobs again.
I have been depressed as long as I can remember. Anxiety really took hold in the past three years. Medication helps
I live in Maryland with my three dogs and my husband. He also struggles with PTSD. :hello: