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Yes its a way of protection,hiding emotions from others is pretty common,i am now doing it for so long i doubt i will ever change as i no longer remember how to,often others ask me "What are you thinking" as my expression shows no indication,i hold back to feel safe.
Yes I understand your mixture of what to do. She has been there for you for so long helping you through things, I too had to have my 13 year old dog put to sleep and for days I pondered on what to do, I felt like keeping her close but she gave me a glance one day right into me that I felt she...
Not cut my hair in a long time, but at as a teen when things were going on abuse etc, this is my reason for PTSD I cut my hair for what felt for no reason. But of course there was a deep reason as I had lost my memory of the abuse but inside my heart had not forgot, I just hacked it off. I...
Not really we never get over a traumatic experience it stays embedded in our memory forever,having said that we do live a life but a different one to what we would had we not experienced trauma,for many we cannot recall a time before it our life starts from trauma on wards we don't get over it...
I am gluten free anyway so my diet is limited,now I discover chocolate is off limits and so is citrus fruits!
I guess I am healthy not eating gluten,but oh I do miss choccie!
I have had doctors say things that were really cruel beyond belief,i now do not bother with any kind of therapy whats the point when they make you worse with a cruel tongue!
I like cycling its exercise that really clears your head you feel so refreshed cycling along, nobody to bother you and all the open space you get fit just by enjoying yourself, but I do own a tread mill/rowing machine/exercise bike the lot really but never bother, all do in January then give up...
These are the responses I have had on telling others,
There isn't such thing don't be silly.
You need help your crazy.
Get over it.
Get on with your life (screamed at me by a doctor).
Not this nonsense again.
Fuss you make you only got abused.
Your traumatic stuff was years ago.
Your making it...
Welcome to this forum I too have scoliosis and have had the surgery, I am a victim of a wrong diagnosis so this delayed treatment so because of this am now in constant pain, PTSD was part that and part something sinister but this site is a nice place as we can all know what the other is feeling...