Recent content by Caroline01

@PtsdEdu Honestly, any & all input is greatly helpful, as I was SO deeply in denial & lacking awareness that I prior to 2 months ago I did not believe I had actually experienced genuine trauma...so to be thrown into this world of accepting, understanding, managing, healing & recovering PTSD from...

My psychiatrist gave me a prescription today for Klonopin to take as needed to prevent panic attacks. She also gave me a Trazodone prescription for my difficulty sleeping. I've taken Trazodone before....didn't really like it, especially because I had recently been on Ambien, which I found to...

@itsKismet I very much appreciate your input!! Especially because you make many really great points & really speak to how incredibly confusing this aspect of trauma recovery is for me...which, I now am understanding that sort of confusion is not abnormal What you say at the end about...

@joeylittle Thank your for your supportive words :)

@edgarbedger Thank you for your reply! I do have a wonderful psychologist.... without her I wouldn't even have come to the realization of what I have actually been dealing with! This went on for the better part of 3 years without my ever even considering I had truly been traumatized and/or was...

@scout86 Thank you so much for such a thoughtful response! Do you ever experience verbal communication issues....like difficulty when it comes to verbally communicating your emotion or emotionally charged thoughts? And by difficulty I mean a situation where you are speaking, but struggling or...

I recently came across the term Alexithymia while reading a book.... it is a Greek word that lierally translates to mean "no words for feelings." The book then further explains that "people with alexithymia experience emotions but experience great difficult explaining to others how they are...

I have an incredibly difficult time telling my story for several reasons: first of which being, my PTSD and related issues has been going on since 2011; however, I in no way identified with the word ‘trauma,’ let alone PTSD or anything to do with it until about 2 months ago. Overwhelmed doesn’t...