Recent content by lynn T.

Imprisonment and never being able to escape. Recurrent night after night, but stopped finally. Actually think it was due to a medication at the time that was not good for me because when I stopped it, felt 100% better and with talk therapy, the same ole nightmare stopped. Horrible at the time...

Your situation sounds very painful. It resonates with me in regards to your spouse. I can't advise you what to do but any daily verbal onslaught is simply demoralizing bad for you. I look back over the years I spent and wonder how did I function as well as I did. I worked, had kids, kept a...

I'm concerned about the medications and possibly your trial and error with them because we know the poly-pharmacy effect can be lethal. I think there are doctors who over-prescribe in trying to help but problems can arise. A person can forget they took one pill and then take another thinking...

aHow much I miss my grandkids

I can relate to this, and I do feel mine correlates directly to domestic abuse (being held in a closet against me will) and in childhood (father drunk and breaking into our home). It's resulted in some panic if I feel there is no exit handy. I don't like motel rooms without sliding doors out to...

I've just concluded that I don't need to be in the midst of people who don't show empathy. We do have the choice of departing and doing that departure with some peace in our hearts. As for any rude comments people make, that's a gift we get to cease meaningful communication with them. I've...

Very nice words, Junebug. I thought about your wondering if ptsd can be understandable to average people. I seem to intuit after meeting some people within a matter of minutes that no, indeed, they are not of a character type or personality that is compassionate. I feel the clue there is...

I agree that we are some of the strongest in the world for not only surviving the chronic trauma and resulting anxieties, including those awful nightmares we speak of on this forum. I recall being so very grateful when one of my recurrent night terrors stopped, and it was not due to any...

It helps if we can simply forgive ourselves for feelings we have, esp. on holidays. I think it's great how you can express yourself, something to add to your list of what you're thankful for. Much better than being closed off and not expressing out loud the fact that we can still want to...

Sadly, reminds me of my sister. You speak of his being a trigger, then you mention the trust is not there. I do sympathize with you. I stopped communication with my sister because of the triggers of criticisms, snide remarks made at family dinners to whomever she felt like targeting, but much...

I just recalled from high school an English teacher of mine who scolded us for using two words in essays.... always and never. She said to stay away from writing or thinking in those terms because it was too extreme and dramatic. Of course, those words are used a lot but maybe they indicate...

It sounds like anticipatory anxiety at a level that doesn't seem reasonable to the ptsd sufferer. I've had too much of that in the past and came to a rational decision that about 90% of what I feared might happen did not happen. It can slip into superstition and some OCD behaviors of checking...

That's a terrific accomplishment! Bet you're proud of it.

Trust in the therapist also matters and I suppose that is dependent on a lot of factors such as time spent with them, your satisfaction with how you feel after a decent number of sessions, how vulnerable you feel to opening up. Since we have experienced traumatic events, maybe it takes more...

Through reading some posts here had some thoughts about traumas and issues that cause us to feel great anxiety that lead me to thinking about whether we have stopped embracing what could be a gift of sorts versus what seems like a curse that is terminal and so bad we feel we'll never experience...