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Yes alcohol makes me worse. :( I had alcohol because of Christmas. I had a dinner and party at my apartment. I was stressed so I drank about four drinks that were left. It's all gone now. I won't do it anymore. It was a mistake. I will use the Trauma Release Exercises instead for stress relief and shake it off...lol. Those really work. I was lucky to have found the TRE. I recommend it to people. I did it before bed and had sound mind and felt ok after. It changes a lot psychologically and emotionally.
 
I can't do it anymore. I can't fight anymore alone. I don't belong here and others deserve their wo...
I was really upset last night. I totally shouldn't have posted that. It could be triggering or upse...
Please don't beat yourself up; in my past life others perfected that position against me and now it is time for me to try only try to not beat the living hell out of myself. Posting your feelings and where you are at the moment is always good and you help others here (me included) to reflect on our own lives and present circumstance/condition, Please, please drinking while/when dealing with depression is a recipe for complete disaster. This time you came through, next time may not be so fortunate after drinking while you are trying so hard to come to grips with the reality of your past and to try and deal with your trauma issues @lonelyone82.

Alcohol and depression - well, that's a loaded gun pointed right at my head; I speak from painful experience of drinking to numb myself from the horrific pain and then cutting myself so badly and ending up in psych. hospital (had to pay several hundred dollars for apt. front door after paramedics/fire rescue knocked my door down to get to me passed out, cut all up, and pot, valiums trying to escape my pain). I am not against drinking. I am simply sharing lonelyone82 that my former (past) experience of drinking while in depression well I almost completed suicide attempt. And after reading your post you wrote while drinking, it took me back to the times when I not only used alcohol, valiums, and even smoking weed to numb me and to unsuccessfully try to stop the excruciating pain which only made all that was just beneath surface hidden so much worse. I was not in recovery then, I did not even know that I had anything to recover from due to my brain's ability to so rapidly in and out dissociate from my most all of my hellish past and some of my recent hellish past, as well.

I am grateful for your post while you were drinking lonelyone82 (not for your drinking while you are depressed - distinction vs. extinction - for you reminded me that I even with the hell I am currently finally now trying to deal with in EMDR Therapy - that without food, excess spending, sex, alcohol, drugs (weed, valium, etc.) I am learning to try to find an ounce of gratitude to be breathing and vertical rather than forever horizontal on the other side after drinking during extreme depression . Only when you are willing please continue to post your thoughts, issues, feelings and I hope you will use caution re: drinking while you are dealing with depression and past painful issues @lonelyone82 . So many caring people have answered you here in this forum's thread, and we all care about you, and you must try one day at a time, one second at a time if need be to not give up and not give in and learn as I am learning in this forum and through EMDR Therapy that I do not have to make those who hurt me the focus of my life anymore. And I want so much to try to learn to live for me today; and not give those who so nearly perfectly tried to destroy my core being (me) any more power and no more control over me than the trigger, the flash, and then me Jade - telling these intrusive thoughts to leave me alone as I try to grow in recovery. hugs and more and more hugs @lonelyone82
 
Thank you for sharing your ongoing situation.

It-and all the supportive posts that followed have given me encouragement and inspiration to continue with my own healing.

You and I- all of us, really - are in good company here, and I am so grateful for that reminder for, as it's said, The wolf is always at the door.

Thanks to you, I'll never feel alone when the time comes to answer it.

I wish you the best many times over.
 
Thank you for sharing your ongoing situation.

It-and all the supportive posts that followed hav...
Truth, I live in fear (wolf) when the darkness closes in on me, and my emdr therapist discussed with me prior to Christmas that fear cannot exist without darkness and (vice versa) , and dr. said that the same applies to love, that light cannot exist without love (vice versa). Afterwards, I came home, and read my shorthand notes about the above - seemed like such an intrinsic natural and believable credence, until the flash, the trigger, and the coming out of nowhere paralyzing historical past remembrances (horrific memories) and tries to overtake me and take control of my moment by moment thought life.

Please continue to share as I have not arrived and continue to deal with pro. comp. ptsd. We can help each other by utilizing this wonderful forum and speak our truth for today, as it changes daily as we grow, and learn together. JadesJewel
 
:hug: I am glad you came back, too! Not wanting to be in pain is completely normal, and wanting it to go away FAST is normal, too.

I hope that knowing that you aren't alone, and that you are VERY welcome here, will soothe your heart. We accept you, and understand your pain, even if we have "arrived" here by different traumas.

Please know that PSTD, and the lying "voice" of depression is TOO LOUD, and lasts TOO long! But, it doesn't last FOREVER!

Reaching out for help is THE MOST IMPORTANT thing you can do! The kind of pain that you are in, CAN be treated. Meds can buy you time to get well, and get you to a place of healing. Just a thought.

Peace and :hug: hugs for you...
AKJ
 
I just realized last night that this is a bad time of year. It was today six years ago my boyfriend died on the way to my house at the age 28. They got in a bad car accident and I got woken up at 3:30 a.m. to a short phone call saying he has been killed, and that was it. It was the final blow before I developed symptomatic PTSD. It was my first time attempting suicide after that event because I couldn't cope and had no support. It has been six years but I don't forget him and I miss him a lot. My health keeps failing I have to go to the specialist again in a month. There is a possibility it is cancer because I keep losing weight, and have some really unpleasant symptoms with abnormal blood tests to confirm my symptoms are not somatic. I don't like talking about it with people I usually keep it inside. I will stay away from the booze as I said before. I'm not an alcoholic just really stressed and I hit the alcohol because of being overwhelmed keeping all of this inside over the holidays. I hosted parties and faked it but I was not having the greatest time. I miss my friend.
 
I don't like talking about it with people I usually keep it inside. I will stay away from the booze as I said before. I'm not an alcoholic just really stressed and I hit the alcohol because of being overwhelmed keeping all of this inside over the holidays. I hosted parties and faked it but I was not having the greatest time. I miss my friend.
I get that and can appreciate it. I'm sorry you're having health concerns. Sending :hug:.
 
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