Recent content by Finch

Chocolate solves everything! ;-)

Today I had a massage - yay!. And an forcing myself to socialise out of the house tonight.

Hi @illusionist and apologies for delay in writing. I appreciate your long reply. I am really sorry to hear re your adoptive parents dying at such a young age. The therapist I am seeing is connecting my terror at being alone to the trauma I had when I was little, along with when I attempted...

Appreciate your reply. Did you end up leaving the relationship? Did toy manage on your own? My relationship isn't abusive just extremely codependent. He is a lovely man but focuses all his attention on me and it's suffocating. I have relief on him and us far too much and have nothing else...

Thanks for replying. What part can you relate to?

Hello everyone. I haven't posted in quite some time and wanted to reach out as I've had memories flooding back of being abandoned, let down by family and found today extremely difficult to cope with. So much that I am taking it off with cocoa and melted cheese sandwich. I have recently...

What a beautiful little bird! :-)

Hi everyone and thank you for the warm welcome! I dont like going out socializing even though I function ok most of the time on a daily basis. Wishe I enjoyed random socialising with other people but I find it an effort. I hope you all have people to help you through your challenges. Xxx

I had a surge of memory about my Dad's long drawn out battle with cancer this morning and the time I had with him taken away. I have complex PTSD for this and a number of other traumas and boy is it complex. Some of it is grief and some of it is unprocessed trauma. Very confusing. Holiday...

Hi Jenny0329, wishing you all the best in your recovery. It took me a number of months to feel safe enough and ready enough to talk about some of the traumas that have happened to me. Give yourself time and try to remember that it's ok to take time too. :o) Thoughts are with you.

Hi all - thank you very much for the welcome! ScaredOfLonely and Pinkcake - sorry perhaps "re-living" was the incorrect term. I meant that the treatment involves re-telling the story and with updates over and over again - which is difficult in the beginning but gets easier as you go along...

So, as much as I dislike labels, this is the first time I am "publicly" introducing myself as someone who has complex-PTSD, and it actually feels quite good! I've had a number of events through very sick parents and "unlucky circumstances" in a number of countries over a lot of years and...