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Greetings from the dissociated realm of CPTSD! I imagine some of you know it well... Here I am at nearly 40, still struggling to find a...

It's so comforting to know that others understand you. I feel like I push friends and family away and hurt their feelings. They somehow...

Introductions are the most difficult part of forums for me. Hello, I am an individual who has faced many challenges in my life...

What do you do to help yourself calm down episodes, panic attacks, break downs? One of the biggest copping mechanisms I’ve had help...

Hi @Paige… Really glad you found us! Hope you the best!

...and you are being under dramatic. We discount our symptoms so much and so often that we never really tell others how hard it is to...

I've only been on this site for a week and I just want to say how much help I'm finding. I thought I was alone in my extreme symptoms...

I can identify with the isolating--especially when I feel the PTSD overwhelms others in social settings. The interactions left when you...

I identify with your struggle. Some days I tremble a lot and am pretty non-functional and definitely hide from people. It has been going...

HI @Paige… . That is a fine introduction, and you don't have to worry as much about overwhelming people here, as we all have to be...

I don’t know if I can help but I really understand the triggers you are going through. My partner who I love dearly has triggered...

Thank you! Your reply is incredibly helpful and it makes complete sense. It's like a light bulb just went off in my head. Stress. Stress...

I felt this too with a break up. I was young, 24, been together since we were 19. Some of the traumas came back during this period. It...

that is a great win! ! ! how 'bout we showcase that win, regardless of what else evolves here? i am going through similar with several...

So yesterday, a person who I thought I was going to be friends with for a good chunk of time sort of ended the friendship. She's a...

I'm so sorry, it sounds like you're going through a nightmare. I trigger myself just thinking about trusting again. I mean if I try and...

I've always had trouble trusting people(I assume due to abandonment and abuse) but anytime I've tried to let that wall down for someone...

My (very!) strong suggestion / word to the wise is not to make big decisions when just starting therapy (or in the middle of any other...

Me too.

gentle empathy, warrior. it has never been easy for me to trust. after 2 1/2 years of covidic social distances marginalizing all...

I have recently blocked or unfriended several people in my current city. Most of my friends live in another state which makes friendship...

I joined this support group several years ago. I fell out of the practice of checking in. Honestly, I don’t remember why. In some ways I...

Good on you. 😃😃😃

I'm so sorry you're experiencing this. I can relate.

That’s fair. Some people are twice a day -in established relationships, bunnies in new ones- or once a month in new relationships & once...

I got cptsd from my church. Seems stupid but I trusted so much that I didn't even recognize it as abuse at the time, so denied the ptsd...

Hello to all who read this.👋This is my first time being a part of a PTSD group. I’ve been in therapy for two years for C-PTSD. I was...