Sufferer Hello To All

[sui generis]

I was and am confused that PTSD can strike you when things are going good many years after it's cause. Confusion is a great part of my life. I have been effected in varying ways since I woke in my closet crying in 2002 telling my wife to "remember how I was". I knew then he was gone. I am not a story of failure, but one of many attempts to live a life I want to be in. I know many of you suffer, and I know pain, from my heart I wish I had an answer. I still look though and will continue. My respect and prayers to all of you. Thank you for being here, even writing these words has given me faith in this moment.

 

[BoN-bOn]

I was confused by this as well. My PTSD wasn't recognized by myself or anyone else until recently. It all made sense that I've been struggling with it for the last ten years & that my way of managing it on my own isn't working anymore. At first when the counselor told me I had PTSD I argued with her. That can't be possible! I'm a nurse, I would have recognized it! I've been out of the abuse for ten years! Why now?! I realize that I was minimizing my symptoms & hiding them from everyone else in an attempt to "be normal."

 

[hodge]

Welcome.

I also have delayed-onset PTSD and I also started feeling it in 2002. I would sit on the floor by the heat register in our living room and cry.

All of my therapists have explained it along the lines of "everyone has a breaking point." For me, I can see it was a combination of 9/11 and the priest abuse scandal.

Sending prayers for you, too.

 

[sui generis]

Welcome.

I also have delayed-onset PTSD and I also started feeling it in 2002. I would sit on the floor...

Thank you so much.

 

[sui generis]

I was confused by this as well. My PTSD wasn't recognized by myself or anyone else until recently. It...

Thank you, there are many treatment but the work is to us. What works that is the quest.

 

[EveHarrington]

Welcome! :-)

 

[Ironlady]

My respect and prayers to all of you. Thank you for being here, even writing these words has given me faith in this moment.

Thank you.. and same to you. (((Hugs))) if you accept.

 

[sui generis]

Thank you.. and same to you. (((Hugs))) if you accept.

Hugs to you. :)

 

[Ironlady]

Thank you @sui generis :)

 

[Deleted member 34328]

there are many treatment but the work is to us

Yup!

If you're willing to do the work, then yes, the work is for you. - and your wife.

Welcome

 

[sui generis]

Yup!

If you're willing to do the work, then yes, the work is for you. - and your wife.

Welcome..

I ( we ) must do the work, and the work is to me not my wife. She can support but only to her ability.

 

[sui generis]

Welcome.

I also have delayed-onset PTSD and I also started feeling it in 2002. I would sit on the floor...

It is to me a strange phrase " breaking point ". What exactly has broken? We aren't. :)
Thanks for sharing, I wasn't diagnosed with PTSD until a change in Psychologists a year and a half ago. She took twenty minutes to say it. I have been under treatment for MDD, GAD, and mood disorders for fifteen years.