Sadielady3
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I hope things go well for you and your cat tomorrow. She sounds like a great companion and I hope she keeps you company awhile longer.
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Thank you! 15 minutes ago, she just showed a slight improvement! Keeping hope!I hope things go well for you and your cat tomorrow. She sounds like a great companion and I hope she keeps you company awhile longer.
I think maybe a lot of us are nervous to write something here or respond to someone else. This whole reaching out thing can be a very new part of the healing journey in our traumatic experience. Anyhow, despite my intellectualizations, welcome! Glad to meet you, to spite the circumstances. :)I'm a little nervous when I write something or respond to someone else, afraid of using the wrong words to say what I'm trying to say. I've finally got to a place where I can interact with people I don't know who also have PTSD.
I'm so sorry to hear of your failed marriage. I think maybe I can relate a little bit. 12 years. Not a healthy relationship. Quite ugly at times, indeed. Anyhow, we give it all we can, and then some. Only for it to fail. To not work out. The dream of our life. Shattered. It sucks. I'm so sorry for the invisible pains and the physical things you can't hide.I joke that I'm "dumb as a box of rocks", because since having a brain injury 31 years ago, I feel I've lost some IQ points. I've lost a few other things too, but I compensate.
I have difficulty teaching myself new things. I get easily overwhelmed by technology and how to use it.
Example...my boyfriend replaced my 20 year old phone. Very simple to use- dial, answer, or text by pressing the numbers until the correct letter displays, one letter at a time and press "send". That was it!
I'm not ungrateful for this one that is like a typewriter, computer, tv, games, music and amazing camera! It does more than I know what to do with! I've only had this a week, my hair is turning gray! My brain is overwhelmed! My guy is a tech genius and he spent much of our camping trip showing me the different functions of the phone. If I'm shown, I can learn. Teaching myself is a frazzled mess! Getting teary eyed from frustration is a side-effect of TBI. I think that may have been a factor in my failed marriage. I'm much better now, just over 31 years of dealing with it. I've come a long way! No one would know from the outside, but it does affect me. There are physical things I can't hide.
I'm losing it all. So be thankful that you still have your long-term! Teasing. It is hard adapting to the changes, isn't it?Short term memory isn't very good, but I can remember long ago very clearly. Strange how that works.
Accepted. I like that. I'm happy for you. This seems like a very good thing. I love to feel accepted.My last regular interactions with people were physical therapy and counseling and being a caregiver for my mom, my only relative. I've spent the majority of my life avoiding people, hibernating. Cats are my companions. I had a couple of my own, then inherited mom's two.
Off and on, over the last few years, a good friend and I have become very close and its wonderful to finally have a normal life! Yet I'm not quite normal, I'm accepted.
I am so happy that through your tragedy, you are able to come to a happy closure with a positive outlook for the future. I smile for you.I have a chance for a happy future, I've prayed for that over 10 years. Depression has improved over the past few months
Nice to meet you too!I think maybe a lot of us are nervous to write something here or respond to someone else. This whole reaching out thing can be a very new part of the healing journey in our traumatic experience. Anyhow, despite my intellectualizations, welcome! Glad to meet you, to spite the circumstances. :)
I'm sorry to hear that happened to you also. Divorce is upending to our lives...an additional thing to recover from.I'm so sorry to hear of your failed marriage. I think maybe I can relate a little bit. 12 years. Not a healthy relationship. Quite ugly at times, indeed. Anyhow, we give it all we can, and then some. Only for it to fail. To not work out. The dream of our life. Shattered. It sucks. I'm so sorry for the invisible pains and the physical things you can't hide.
It really is hard adapting to the change and having enough awareness to compare what used to be to what is now. I find it frustrating. I've learned to make lots of notes and try not to misplace the notes!I'm losing it all. So be thankful that you still have your long-term! Teasing. It is hard adapting to the changes, isn't it?
Feeling accepted instead of repulsive brought a lot of joy to my heart...however, in a strange twist of events, it was I who decided not to continue the relationship. I guess we had "personality differences". I'll be happier in the long run for making that choice.Accepted. I like that. I'm happy for you. This seems like a very good thing. I love to feel accepted.
Thank you for your kind words and positivity! I'm here for you as well.I am so happy that through your tragedy, you are able to come to a happy closure with a positive outlook for the future. I smile for you.
We're here any time you want to talk.
Woodsy
Thanks for a fantastic idea! I'll also be nailing some doors closed. I'll leave 2 for emergency exits but the others will be fixed to be difficult to open. Its a creepy, "violated" feeling knowing my space was invaded.I hope you get some answers in regard to who stole your things. I would feel uneasy knowing that someone had been in my personal space without my permission or awareness.
Maybe make the password into a hieroglyphic that only you know the meaning of. That way you can put it in a frame somewhere and it looks like artwork and no one would even know it's a password. I think in 'art terms'. This may not help at all.
I hope you have a good day Kittie. Be kind to yourself.
oh ya - you will. I've done it spectacularly a couple times! But you will find that the people around here are very forgiving. I mean, its a on line writing site for people with ptsd. Mistakes are bound to happen so people will usually give you a chance to fix it.My concern is my reply won't come out as intended and someone will end up feeling offended. I
Ok - admittedly it's the dispatcher in me but please be careful with this. People get stuck in rooms like this and then die because they can't make it to the exit they thought they were going to be able to get to in an emergency.I'll also be nailing some doors closed.
Yes...and when it eventually happens, I'd feel just awful! I only mean to send good feelings and would NEVER intentionally hurt anyone, but if I do, I hope they would let me know. I wouldn't take offense to things said to me, I accept criticism and take from it the good things and discard the rest.oh ya - you will. I've done it spectacularly a couple times! But you will find that the people around here are very forgiving. I mean, its a on line writing site for people with ptsd. Mistakes are bound to happen so people will usually give you a chance to fix it.
I'd like to do a set-up similar to the Flintstones, haha...a removable plank! This house has 5 doors, a few too many and on different levels...impossible to know who's lurking unless I watch the security screen. The windows are impossible to open, they'd have to break the glass.Ok - admittedly it's the dispatcher in me but please be careful with this. People get stuck in rooms like this and then die because they can't make it to the exit they thought they were going to be able to get to in an emergency.
Instead of nailing it shut, you can use dowels to block the doors and windows from the inside so they can't be opened from the outside but if you need to get out it's easy for you to move them. Your security company should be able to walk you thru how to do that.
Way safer than nails but still serves the same purpose