Recent content by J.L. Pitts

I started dissociating many years after I had been treated for PTSD I do not think in my case it was due to the PTSD I had a psychotic break due to untreated postpartum psychosis. After that break I had 15 people inside me every one of which had a different job or function. So when I dissociated...

You are taking the phrase "if it doesn't kill you it makes you stronger" in the literal sense. I agree with your physiological findings. That has been proven by medical science. But this phrase is not literal. This comes from a point in your journey that when you have reached it you will...

Can you believe Wellbutrin was the weight gain culprit with me 35 pounds in a year. It is supposed to be one that helps you lose weight. Now my eating disorder is all out of control and morphed from Bulimia to Anorexia!

When my book was released and I got ten copies in the mail and I was so speechless I had actually done something and that day for my daily bible quote this was posted ( since you said you talked to a minister I do not think this will offend you, forgive me if it does but it seems like I should...

The sense of touch. It has a wonderful but sometimes eerie linger to it. Be that as it may the human body was designed to touch. The largest organ is actually your skin. It can feel the slightest breeze. I have been where you are. I wanted so badly for it NOT to be any kind of issue. But I am so...

I got an email that they werre accepting articles for a newsletter they are trying to roll out and I submitted an article on Hypervigilance.

Yeah I felt so bad my wedding night I loved my husband so much and that gift I could have gave him was ripped from me. They think well it could of been worse they are trying to rationalize it. They need to see the actual damage and scars it has left. but because you kept all your body parts your...

Yes I have scars from those words. But I learned to speak up and told them that a small scratch can get infected and kill a person. So the damage that you bear from the abuse is real and it is there.

I was diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder it took a lot of medicine to keep me in my right mind. I was over medicated for 8 years from the time they added that last Anti psychotic I was an impenetrable numb. I dissociated from everything in y life first thing I did was to separate...

Maze, I so know what you mean about being a child inside. From childhood to 32 I was very much thinking how can I do "this grown up thing" I am just a little girl?" What I learned in therapy is that is a true inner child. And we have to learn to parent our inner child to help them learn and grow...

prolongrd exposure is a joke it just traumatizes you over again when I wrote my story I had to edit it and edit it I read that story so many times I hadn't had flashbacks or nightmares in like 20 years but reading it over and overr just made me whacked.

I was a military wife when ptsd took me down.cant say i had much of a life hubby gone a lot. when he was home depended on him for everything man I was so co-dependent I could have been his doppel ganger but he was on maneuvers when I crashed and called a suicide crisis line. They calmed me down...

see you rescued your dog! fight those thoughts and keep every negative person out of your life just tell them you have enough negative thoughts you don't need theirs ao call them, write them,email them, text them but set a firm boundary!

Nighthawk is that your dog in the Picture? is he/she a service dog? Animals look at people so differently. They don't know human thoughts but they are very empathetic and know when a human is hurting. My dog is not a service dog he is an American Cocker Spaniel. But he knows when I need lovin's...

OK I'm new Anthony so what does all that mean? I don't know what PC stands for and I am unaware of a problem. I like coming here and do not want to lose the privilege. Could you tell me what I have done wrong from the bold type it indicates this is a "strong better be listened to statement" but...