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@Friday, this was very helpful. The stress cup- I just googled this. It describes my experience perfectly.

Menopause is a biological change that naturally occurs with age. Trauma is inflicted by outside forces. That’s the difference.

If your brain has a permanently altered chemistry, altered physical structures, or otherwise long-term altered functioning, to me this is an injury. It is an injury to your brain chemistry, physical structures, etc. We’re playing semantics here, however. I would say that there is a good bit of...

As I understand it, PTSD results from a brain injury. I have no head injury. To me, a physical injury is a physical injury. If stress causes it or if getting hit in the head causes it, your brain is physically injured. The treatments for these injuries will be different, depending on the case...

Interesting. I’m not extremely versed in DID. In that condition, when your identity shifts, you also sense yourself to be someone different, correct? Meaning you have a different name, may be a different age, etc.

During the height of my PTSD symptoms, I would experience profound depersonalization. During these times, it seemed like my eyes would take on a distinct look. They would be kind of still, and wide open, when I looked in the mirror. During these episodes, something very strange would happen. I...

@Friday, PTSD is what I consider my brain injury. As I understand it, an overload of stress hormones causes a physical injury to the brain. The point I am getting to is that I think I have a very severe brain injury. My hyperarousal symptoms are so intense, my other symptoms are so pervasive and...

I have a very frequent and quite persistent mental paralysis. Doing everyday things like cleaning the house seem impossible. The things I cannot do, without having to exert extreme and usually not possible to have willpower, are cleaning, filling out paperwork, and most other tasks that require...

Yes, I have had this happen in the past. For the first 13 months of my condition, it happened all the time. I’m good for a week and then I’m murdered again. It hasn’t happened like this in a long time though. It feels almost like a new thing, even though it’s happened many times before. I do...

@Sideways, I devised the treatment myself, and my psychologist recommended it and approved it. I have a machine called the Kasina, and I have programs that I use with it. The programs are hypnosis audios written by a master hypnotist who trained under Carole Erickson, among others. The Kasina...

I just looked this up. I do not have CPTSD. I had the wrong idea about that condition when I typed that. I actually may have heard or read about an alternate version of what CPTSD is. There are many notions of what makes up this condition I didn’t say that it is not PTSD. I said that CPTSD and...

I have been suffering from severe, chronic PTSD for 2.25 years. My condition improved dramatically in July and August 2020, when I started doing progressive relaxation exercises. Due to the severity of my condition, I still was, still have been, and still am very unwell. I have horrific...

@Simply Simon, I’m horrified to learn of your experiences and traumatization (please excuse me for this quote feature. I’m new to this site and didn’t mean to use that). I was also sexually abused, although I didn’t develop any PTSD symptoms as a result (I do think I have CPTSD from my...