Recent content by Hollandi

What utter crap!

OK, I'm going to be very direct concerning your medications - take them! These pages are filled with the details of other people in crisis and very often the most common feature is that they're refused the medications offered. DO THEY REALLY SOUND AS IF THEY KNOW BETTER?

And..?

I very much doubt that your PTSD was diagnosed as a result of your ex-boyfriends attempted suicide. Your choice to leave this 'unhappy man' displays to me your wish 'not to be a rescuer' and of course you should distance yourself from his family and wholly disregard their biased opinions. Such...

Most sorry to learn that you've reached suicidal thoughts, though I should mention that blood pressure tablets aren't a reasonable route. Of course, nothing I write is going to dissuade you but I do have to believe that 'attention' rather than suicide was on your mind. Danelover, I do tend to...

'Anger', true anger, isn't an unhealthy response. Certainly it is dangerous, most usually our acculturated attitudes forbid it and allow expressions of anger only to be permissible in movies or other culturally controlled forms.

Such an extraordinarily stupid line of conversation.

Oh Matthew, at 31 you seem to be willing to take on the troubles of the world! Wouldn't it be more productive to focus on yourself. If you have PTSD then your partner would have been 'sub-consciously' aware, in fact these are the features, most often, that attract us to other people, their...

The decision to marry anyone with a serious psychological disorder is HUGE. I would ask, therefore, why is marrying so important? I did suspect from you message that there were 'cultural' issues. All I can say is that 'you simply must not these (if they exist?) count at all'. Marriage is...

I can't see how these things help you?

Vulnerability is such a vague term Junebug. I'm sure that it ain't vague to you however. Everyone is vulnerable in fact, most of us don't measure it as a perspective in our lives, we move it toward the vulnerability of others, our children perhaps, our elderly parents or our socially recognised...

Thank you Rubyrose. I am a bit reluctant to comment right now. I am, however, quite sure today that I need to recover those memories and begin to understand the impact on the following 63 years of my life. Meanwhile, after a very serious incident 6 months ago I am now in the hands of...

Thank you Esterio. You mention the 'dog attack' as your first trauma at 3 1/2 yo. This suggests to me that there are other traumas, later? Iain.

Now, fully 63 years after the trauma, I have been diagnosed with cPTSD, I'm now 68 and was 5 1/2 when this trauma occurred. What happened? I had returned from school, where I had only recently started, and my brother Paul, then 4 1/2, and I went out to play together. We lived on a houseboat...