Recent content by Edith

Happy birthday wishes. Hope you do something a bit special today.

Yes, I can recognise this. A small thing can just push me into a screaming match with my suffering hubby. I feel like I can't hack life in large dose...

My parents are dead as is one sibling but I have nothing to do with any of my family other than via a lawyer - kid you not. A few years back there was a good forum Toxic Families named after the book by Susan Forward - I think was the author's name. It ended and another forum of the same name...

Wishing you all the very best & sending good wishes across the pond.

I got the diagnosis last August and have received the offer of anger management 75 miles away which I declined & got to see someone who is training in psychology - They were a volunteer in my medical practice - who I saw for a few weeks and didn't like that they kept saying how I should look at...

Thanks for that Suzetig. That does make sense. I did reach out for help when I felt that I really really really needed it but it isn't there in the NHS. I am stuck with a label of BPD which I don't want, nor need & just left to get on with it so i will have to look to other sources as I have...

I think you are being brave - I don't know if I am of the strength to expose myself to an MP. Not putting that well, but I don't know where to start.

Hi Robert - I didn't fill in a questionnaire. It was years ago when I had a few meetings with a CPN & she said that she reckoned I had PTSD as I'd had to move due to being illegally evicted by a nasty bully of a landlord who's taken over the place I'd lived for 18 years & I'd had to move to just...

Hi Fatty, I take St John's Wort & that is helpful for me. I used to do a lot of self medicating but don't any longer. I live very cheap so I manage but there was a time where it was very difficult money wise & that does add to the stress. I do without a lot of things that most folks take for...

Many thanks for that. I understand better what you mean now. I will try & get some reading done - not great at concentrating sometimes but will look out for something suitable.

Thanks for that - but I don't see how I can increase my choice or autonomy. I went seeking help & none is available apart from drugs it would seem. I now have a massive file in my medical records with pages of past abuse & other highly personal information that is of no benefit to me and is...

If I knew where to start that would be helpful, but at the moment I feel I am a headless chicken - well would be if I had enough energy to zoom about in opposite directions, constantly changing course.

Hi Digger - I did get an advocate to come to meeting with psychiatrist as I felt I wasn't getting 'heard'. The advocate was quite good & she said that she didn't think I was getting dealt with professionally but what with cut backs & stuff that is what is happening - you get offered drugs &...

Hi Kilted - Thanks for that. I agree about meds. I do take St John's Wort & find that really helpful. Had a very bad reaction to other prescribed anti-depressants. The psych is not recognising that I have C-PTSD & reckons I have BPD. Which I doubt I have. I wish there was yoga class nearer I...

Have you been tested for Vit D deficiency? And also Heomochromotosis which is iron overload & can effect joints - highly unlikely you have it but worth ruling out.