Recent content by KA60

Not sure if this is a question but antipsychotic meds antidepressants - I take lamotrigine for seizure prevention. This drig can and is prescribed for bipolar disorder. Stay hydrated and inside or in shade in hot weather..watch caffeine intake

Welcome. No judgements here. Site has been helpful for me

I understand and have been where you are in the past and am here again with my dad. Take care of you. People who say things like bury the hatchet just get over it etc do not understand trauma is in the nervous system and we need to continually adjust our responses so we make good decisions stay...

Would appreciate some perspective on this. Can people with PTSD have trouble keeping themselves out of controversial subjects opinions etc? I read this. My husband has PTSD. Veteran. War combat. I see this in him. Not just with me. You tell people what to do and you can get quite the opposite...

Agree. This platform has helped me.

I have and still am spending an inordinate amount of time online with banking payments calls customer service issues where the company- walmart Verizon was in wrong got nm atty general involved and sutuatuon was corrected. I am not a victim but I am worn out. Going in a store frankly just bucks...

I have an addition to this. I have gotten back into codependency behaviors I think setting up scapegoat like situations. I won't go to community center anymore for meals. The cook there very young having financial difficulties. I don't need nor want this. I am working on issues with me. Plus the...

I have let codependency creep back in my life. Accepting things people behaviors not ok. And taking blame. I am addressing it plus just hard things like adding my husband as joint account holder on my credit union account preparing for loss of his medicaid. I have medicare and a supplement...

Welcome. Hope you find support here. I have. I would offer this- yes you are different and so is everything and everyone else.

I got bacterial meningitis of my brain in may 2014 from chronic sinusitis. Craniotomy done to remove abcess left temporal lobe..In a medically induced coma on a vent septic multi organ failure. Dialysis. Cardiopulomary aresst. I resonate with your post. I was hospitalized 30 days. Many...

I just got insight into my part of this. My husbands fsther was verbally physically abusive to him. Me screaming crying asking to stop this focus on current events- I am echoing his father's treatment of him. He said his first wife- long divorced now- sounded like me. That does not exclude his...

He screamed and cried this evening too. I have caused him pain as well. I made a list last night of all the good things he has done for me for us. My thinking gets black and white with this. The list has about u things on it. His beliefs have gotten to me . I just looked at the resources in my...

Thank you Mutty. I have looked in the past at these resources. I need to check again to see if they have changed due to funding cuts. This evening I asked my husband if I can say I am getting overwhelmed aka fear if we are discussing something. And can we table this discussion till later. I...

Thank you moving forward. This post from you is helping me clarify. We had a talk again today. Not good again. We addressed some of8 the questions you raised..For one thing I told him the pain and fear from all that is happening is greatly effecting me. For another I think there has been a...

Ok. Thank you. I have a hard decision to make. I don't expect or want him to change. Maybe Magical thinking but I have friends finally here a church to attend. I am not sure it is safe to leave. I have activities friends here outside of my marriage. Rent is very high - place on my own..He has...