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Hello I have had trauma almost all my life but commencing treatment for PTSD with a psychologist, all is going well. However, I have noticed that I always have a fear of going to paid employment. It is fairly recent. There was a security job which was long hours and I didn't have much of a...

They are already dealing with the health anxiety I just have a lot of fear because I have had people in my life always say oh if you do X then this will happen to you So it's the fear conditioning

Yes I have but I have learned acceptance What you are doing is demanding of yourself, I did the same. But remember, healing comes with acceptance. You have PTSD and you are working through it. It's like being rehabilitated from a severe physical injury, it takes time and acceptance. Bit by bit...

Hello, I have CPTSD As soon as something happens to my mouth or any other part of my body, I immediately assume the worst and/or convince myself that it is something incredibly horrible. For example, at the time of this writing, I have a small ulcer in my mouth (it's very small, most likely...

all the agorphobic thoughts are the same or in a similar vein "Escape" "Holy (bleep)" Your brain is just trying to protect you in that specific situation I do not know your history but in my history I have had a lot of people forcing me to do something against my will so perhaps my brain is...

I am not a psychologist but perhaps you may have some social anxiety disorder. I have this after being exposed to relentless judgement and criticism from abusive people I've found that it is best to accept that some people are jerks but on the whole the majority of humans are good people that...

You can eliminate the panic attacks but the thing is to be slowly doing it. I've come from not leaving the house to going to the local shops and to a bit further because I've constantly been chipping away at it. The thing is your brain is trying to protect you and doesn't care about your life...

Thanks Slow and steady wins the race

yes but avoidance strengthens the fear. i have slowly trained myself to face more situations and have educated that it is all trauma related and nothing that is not fixable. the hardest thing for me is dealing with the thoughts my brain shoves in my head that is 'oh my god im going to f*cking...

Hi I have cPTSD with agoraphobia I can't handle shopping malls when they're busy, can't handle ques, situations where i cannot readily escape... whenever i feel trapped or closed in (avoidance of physical and emotional abuse trauma I know) Has anyone else here got this? And, what have you...

I get what you're saying. I dont have people pleasing but I feel like I am empty inside and I do not know who I am even though I do things I like (such as typing on this forum. Typing is an interest of mine but I do not feel connected to it) My main thing I feel daily is "am I ok? is this...

Hello. I have been surrounded by toxic religion and toxic individuals for most of my life. I made the break from religion in general in 2016 and made the break from the toxic people in concrete terms (fully ignoring them and moving forward) in 2017, this year. In fact, it was my new years...

thank you for sharing your story, i was not sexually abused but i was physically and emotionally cannot begin to know what you are suffering from i do hope you can rise above the pain and sorrow

the cult came down heavy on me when i made a commitment to it, total and complete control but given the link between human behaviour and environment, i have experienced a major reduction in anxiety and defensiveness because i no longer associate with the cult members most of them leave me...

yes indeed. Weird thing is, when I stopped attending at age 18, the stuff didn't effect me anyway Then again, I was in a normal high school at age 13 - 18 so I guess that offset a lot of the damage that the cult would have done The aim was to homeschool me (one of the cult members advocated...