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Hi, Here in Belgium there is a shortage in vvolunteers so they are happy with open arms for any help. The work itself is in the...

Also...if it's fast paced...be ready to ask questions it's completely normal and they typically appreciate it.

Be open-minded. First days can be a complete mess! My PTSD likes to explode in situations like that and decide (for all manner of...

Hi, Next monday I am going to check out a place to start volunteerwork. Any tips and tricks from anybody? Looking forward to of. Peace

Postponed the session for 2 weeks. Talked about other yuckness that has risen to my full awareness. My therapist told me that its a lot...

I can totally understand why you would be tired of this... just reading your post i feel f off for you...kudos to you for facing this in...

Hi, Tomorrow we have an EMDR session planned about my mother and her masturbating next to me from 10 to 14 years old while obligating...

The big thing to consider is - work adds another layer of stress. So if you add more stress how will you function on a normal day...

Yeah - similar. And I've just started a role that includes things like a desk, and a phone, and... Do I really want to go back to...

Hi, On a good dat I feel like I can do any job. On a bad day especially after a horrible night of reliving stuff from my past, I feel...

Tension in your back and neck.... Lived with it so long it became normal, so did low back pain. When it was bad no sleep, back spams...

Cptsd. Always debated if I have DID. Some labels help until they don’t! Welcome

Welcome

Happy Christmas to all. Patchîng new good safe memories over the old ones. When I succeed in this, and yesterday already went pretty...

The entire team here at MyPTSD want to wish all of the members and guests here a very happy Christmas and New Year. It can be a hard...

I'm having a really hard time, too.

Feeling The Blame I Do. It has a hold on me. Everytime I think I am out... it pulls me back in. Black sheep I still am, and when I...

I've been there. It gets better. If this is helpful, great; if not, toss it. Sit with the pain and welcome it in, it's clearing you...

I am in pain. I try to convince myself that the violence towards me in my childhood is not my fault. But for some reason I always get...

Hi with you in these feels. ❤️

Hi, I still can 't put into words what is going with me right now... Alexithimia according to the Body keeps score. The glooming...

Thank you for this. Copy paste on what is going at the moment with me. More selfcare seems the solution. Thx again.

So that makes sense then, yes? No pain in adrenaline fueled overdoing, stop doing and the effects flood in as the natural painkillers...

the overdoing and being a human doing indeed of balance and a human being is mosdef a part of it. Thanks for the feedback

in my personal herstory, acute and random body aches are normal for coming out of any of my hyper-states. when i am hyper i clench...

Doing a lot and not laying down and resting. During the last week I have rested a lot which was good, but then the overal body pain...

Hi, Is it normal when getting out of hyperarousal that I am having lowerbackpain and radiating pain in my legs, feet, hands, shoulders...

All of the above. Sometimes I feel energized even when we did something tough, if something comes of the process then I feel great. That...

Once the emotional component of the childhood trauma is changed, the childhood trauma will lose it's unconscious control over your...

Hi, Reading the Body keeps score made me aware that my brain is damaged from chronic childhood trauma. What can I do to heal my brain...

Last session traumatherapy was online at friday. Today 3 days later exhausted, also sick from a cold i guess. Very lucid and intense...

In the early days of trauma therapy, I would sometimes feel agitated and have flashbacks that I would need to calm. Nowadays, that...

for me, that varies wildly with the type of session/group meeting. to help with regulating, i sandwich my sessions between calming...

I usually feel energized. I'm very much in the "bring it!" camp and having a place to go where I can actually do narrative processing...

TRAUMA therapy? Shattered. Dysregulated as faaaawk. Kill someone break some shit. Suicidal as hell. Homicidal as ‘Bring it!’. Sleep...

Better? Worse? Both? The same as before? Dysregulated? Connected? Relieved? Also, if you feel bad after, what helps you re-regulate...

https://www.myptsd.com/threads/stressor-vs-trigger-what-is-a-trigger.9903/ This ^^^ is the best distinction I’ve come across.

yeah those arent really clear for me. I am just realizing since a few weeks how far away from reality, in the moment I most of the time...

Yes it does. Which is a good thing big picture wise.

There was a lot of abuse. My ACE's is very high. Working through it now with Traumatherapy, EMDR, etc...

The trauma I have fully and completely processed I don’t have nightmares about… per se. I’ll still occasionally dream about it...

The nightmares and flashbacks are often about my parents

I don't think it's abnormal. Having nightmares is my normal, more than a decade later. Which isn't what you want to hear, but I would...

Thanks. At least I am not alone.

Hi, Is het normal to keep having nightmares while being in Traumatherapy for almost 2 years now?

Put my tools and skills list for complex trauma on the fridge and the bathroom door

Folded the four or so loads of laundry 😬😅 thank God for de-wrinkle spray

Ha. I relate. I mean, it feels nice to be wanted but… You can always quit if something doesn’t work out

Without the rushes it feels like detoxing from something

I’ve learned to treat those as an Avoidance symptom. Easier to be mad/hurt/insulted/whatever at someone NOW than to deal with symptoms...