Recent content by magnor

This thread gives me comfort. I'm 34 and in the same boat as all of you. Relearning how to feel for the first time. Just spent 5 straight days in my room feeling every kind of emotion. I think to myself, 'Is this what healthy people feel when they feel emotions?' I have difficulty gauging what...

I will write a note and decline but unfortunately, I do not have any money to send a gift. Thank you.

I don't know how to respond to a wedding invitation. I have PTSD and CPTSD. And the person is a family member but I have not spoken to them nor have they been apart of my life in maybe 20+ years. I don't know how to address the note. Do I say: "Hello, _____ I'm sorry but I will have to decline...

Congruency, your story is like mine and the fact that you broke free gives me hope that all is not lost for me. It wasn't until I started seeing a trauma specialist that they explained to me that the agoraphobia was a symptom of PTSD, not a cause. It sort of "clicked" at that point back in 2016...

Sorry to confuse. My mother has the MSbP. I will correct it.

I began cutting strings over a year ago. I know I need to get out of here but being housebound and monophobic, I'm stuck. The more I try and do exposure therapy, the more they try and sabotage it. My therapist says the stronger I get, the more abusive they get. I'm trying to save any money I get...

Hello. I was diagnosed with PTSD as well as C-PTSD almost 2 years ago. I was medicated by my mother when I was 16 for illnesses I didn't have in order to cover up the abuse in our home. I was the "identified patient" in my family. I still am. I have been put on 28 different drugs over the span...