Recent content by MaplePancake

I am sorry. I am sure it must be so hard. Most of us deal with money near everyday so I have a lot of sympathy for that being a trigger to someone. As for the shame, maybe it would help to look at the news and see that the wealthiest people can be jerks. I don’t want to get political here so...

Welcome. Even though my experiences are obviously different from yours I relate to feeling nervous about making small mistakes for fear of others reactions. Healing is hard but don’t give up. You have a lot of strengths

Ok. Feel very detached writing this. was sexually assaulted years ago as an adult. Always felt that it was more of a “ok, technically this fits the definition of sex assault rather than something significant. Sex abuse is always portrayed as being such a big deal that I used to feel like I...

So did your heart re-start on its own? You said you were not helped when your heart stopped. And you did not get help with life threatening asthma attacks. are you talking about many doctors or one doctor? I hate to ask an obvious question but did you ever try to stop seeing the abusive...

If anyone is uncomfortable with that opinion all I gotta do is make up some pseudo psych term. Call it “Daughter mother complications” now that I came up with a label for it I normalized it and it can not be called abuse

I was physically violent towards my mom when I was about ten or eleven. She was not an abuse victim. My older brother was physically aggressive towards me up to his early twenties. A psychologist I was seeing told me that was normal sibling behavior. I think if it isn’t a problem for a...

My complaint about my mother is pretty mild compared to what a lot of people here have had to put up with. It still effected me badly, so here goes: I wish she had been more balanced in terms of considering my emotional/mental state. She never wanted to hear from me, but always had to be sure...

I relate a bit. I guess I don’t think too much about weak people. I do get intimidated by self confidence though. As I got older I have been learning that self confidence people aren’t actually smarter than anyone else. They can just compartmentalize their weaknesses so they don’t feel...

I am sorry for your struggles. I was about to post something similar! I don’t really know what my triggers are because some days I am so hyper aroused it seems to be everything. And other days I am just suspicious and on guard. I wish you success in fighting this.

Ok so the post is titled Understanding Trauma for PTSD diagnosis and Anthony is the poster. I hope it will help answer some of your questions. You have been dealing with this for years and deserve peace and healing

To go through that sort of treatment for months on end is really really tough. And this was your job so you couldn’t just leave. You had to endure it. I can not add much more than what Friday said about PTSD diagnosis. I know that the link between an event‘s supposed severity and how badly...

First of all, this may seem like an obvious question, but did you at least share this with a therapist or psychiatrist? I only ask because you say you haven’t shared this with anyone. Secondary trauma is trauma. Police officers can get PTSD by hearing details of child abuse of children they...

glad to know it helped! Keep talking!

I will hope and pray your struggles ease soon. Before the infidelity did you and your husband have a good relationship? Did anything seem wrong? You had such a hard betrayal not just by him but other people in your life. Keep posting and I hope you are able to eventually trust people in real...

Hi and welcome. You have a lot of important questions. I am not a child abuse survivor but I will try to help a bit and I am sure when other people see your post they will have even more help/support for you. You have gotten a PTSD diagnosis for combat stress. Now you are wondering how to...