Recent content by Cr8ingMagic

My opinion is that if something from the past triggers undue anxiety in terms of experiencing situations that would not normally bother someone in the present, then it qualifies as trauma. For example, I was bitten by dogs five different times in my life. If I see a dog now, I will go out of...

Salu, It's something general and round I'm looking for! I'm not mad about your statement, but I'm asking because there were a couple of occasions when someone asked, I said that I don't see my family anymore, and there was this HUGE awkward silence. I don't want to say that I don't see them...

I, too, have found an alternative therapy that really worked for me, just within the last couple of days. A friend of mine found a web site put up by an empathic healer and she gave it a try, with amazing results. So I tried it, too, what I like most is that it works through e-mail, so you can...

I would like to add to what TLite said, meditation does help, but I struggled with learning how to meditate for a long time because I would just get frustrated by all the thoughts, and I couldn't seem to make them STOP! Then I read this book that said that when you are meditating, if your mind...

I have cut off mother and sister, I try to cut off dad, but he keeps trying to stick to the bottom of my shoe like a piece of nasty gum I have stepped in. I consider my friends to be my family, now, two of my friends are an older couple that I think of as my new parents, and I have several new...

One thing I have found really helpful is to look at what I like to do and see if I can find groups nearby that I can join where people will accept me there because we have common interests, like a craft store up the road where they have classes on doing new kinds of crafts, and a kayaking club I...

Yeah, I always feel like a real stooge when I have an intense reaction or panic attack, but I always feel in the end that the release of the associated emotions is well worth the embarrassment. That is one thing that I dislike SO intensely about traditional therapy, the more calm and relaxed...

I try to have as much fun and laugh as much as I can when I am preparing for something stressful, it allows me to approach the situation with a more positive frame of mind, which then lessens the amount of stress I feel when I get into the situation. Also, deep breathing exercises and...

I have thought about this a lot myself, and my conclusion is that EVERYBODY worries, everybody has the same behaviors as those of us with PTSD, but I think it's just far more intense for those of us with PTSD because the new stressful situations trigger the old stressful situations, which...

I don't have anything to do with my family of origin anymore, and since I have terminated relationships, I have met some new people who ask about family. I have yet to come up with a response that I feel comfortable with that stops them from asking further questions. For example, if I admit to...

I'm having an issue, wondering if anybody else has dealt with this and how, but I have terminated relationship with my abuser (mother), don't have contact with sibling, and have told my father that I don't want to have a relationship with him anymore because he's too dysfunctional, but he keeps...

Hi, I live in PA, have PTSD from early childhood trauma. All my life my family was always saying, "What's wrong with you, why do you act that way?" and it always made me feel really bad because I didn't know the answers to their questions, in fact, I spent a lot of time asking myself the same...