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Dear Josep, I have been using Sertraline for 2 years, and to be honest, it doesn't always work for me either. It is a tricky one, when I am in a bad patch, I can take many things and they don't seem to help. My best advise would be to listen to your body, and if the drug is making you worse...

This forum is not social media for me. I use it to help myself and others navigate through this thing called CPTSD… That said I have days when even that subject is too much for me and I have to take a break. Nevertheless it has been helping me through a very tough time, and I am not sure if I...

Hey Arfie, at the moment, I can‘t handle much intake. I am depleted and the news makes it worse. I read something yesterday by accident and it sent me into panic. It stays in my head and terrifies me even more. My guideline is my day, am I feeling strong or scared. Am I feeling hopeful or...

Good for you! It is not your fault. Have compassion for your 14 year old self 🧚‍♂️

Well as sad as it is not to have family to support us, we have others people who do. My father is a bully, and he loved being cruel. I cut him out of my life 28 years ago. I gave him a last chance 10 years ago. Here I am without contact and that is really okay, in fact better for me, my...

I feel the same Deno, what you share means a lot too. Finding the right people to be opened with, is not easy. I guess the internet did something good besides just stressing everyone more 🤣. I have never explained my struggles to anyone besides a small amount to my therapists. Even then I was...

Your sister’s lack of empathy and her not standing up for you makes me unterstand why you didn‘t tell your family. I am sorry to be blunt, maybe she has now apologized. My sister wasn‘t always kind to me when we were young either. Again in my opinion you did the best you could, let yourself...

What a coincidence I am an ESL teacher too. I started teaching in 2006. Somehow I managed … As I was raising my son. I get the anxiety feeling. I had to work, my son was 6. I kept it up until my first real breakdown end of 2020. Returned to work in early 2022. I broke again this Feb...

You were a teenager and it sounds like you did the best you could in a horrible situation. That doesn‘t mean weakness. Be kind to yourself… you deserve it. 🧚‍♂️ I can understand why you didn‘t want to risk yourself… bullies are well not very kind people. I wish I could help more…

I understand this, being stuck in the cycle of this. I have had peace for 3 days, and today I am spinning in it. I don‘t ask why me anymore, it doesn‘t change anything. I have accepted it. However, after three good days, it is hard to be stuck. I agree about being the one nit to pass this...

I used to think my family was a reflection of myself. It shamed me and therefore it made me feel everything was my fault, and I was the reason they all abandon me. Now, I know that isn‘t true. I still feel a twang of shame about my worth when I am honest about my past, but mostly I really...

restorative sleep 👍. I understand 🧚‍♂️

I made a step forward by reaching out, and yet I still feel the panic. I seem to lose sense of time or days and just sit in a void of getting through. I keep wanting to apologize to my son for being this way, he is just starting his life and I cannot lay this on him. I am isolating myself...

Panic again since yesterday....I was doing quite okay, and then bang the sadness, loneliness and isolation set back in. I thought I was coming out of the worst. I know this struggle and I know it is an illness, and yet it is so hard to accept. I cannot read anymore articles about this...

🙏. Thank you 🙂

Trying to get out of the apartment to explain myself to another therapist. My mind is trying to figure out what to say. I need a form so I can try and find a therapist that deals with CPTSD. Talk therapy is not something that works anymore. I know what I have and I thought I might give...

I can relate to this. I think any form of change to a running system is overwhelming for me. I am in the middle of my own readjustment. I just wanted to give you a line of support. 🧚‍♂️

I so understand this… the default thinking, the over analyzing …I had these feelings for years. I am much better now. I don‘t do groups…to overwhelming for me. 🧚‍♂️. Accepting who we are and our boundaries is hard work 🪷🌸

Hello Rorster93, well first off I think the person who touched you when you clearly did not like it, is the socially awkward one not you 😊. Is it social healthy to get drunk and bother other people? 🤔. I would day no, but it is something that happens quite a lot, in public when people drink. I...

I don‘t think anyone can decide what is best or right/wrong for someone else. I have had people tell me I have to love my parents. I say we didn‘t pick our parents but we can pick our friends. The was a hard truth I learned over many years of struggling about it. 🧚‍♂️

I am relatively new here and finding the support I never had… here… has helped me deal with a new episode much much better. The kind understanding… It is such a difficult road, but having support from fellow sufferers, makes me realize I will get through this once again. Welcome to the forum...

It took me years to admit it, say it and have any form of compassion for myself. I used to describe it as an deer on a road looking into the headlights of an oncoming car unable to move out of pure fear. I felt this way a lot in my life. I used to tell friends I was tired, go lay in bed and...

Thank you Roland, I understand this as well. When I am in the absolute thick of it, unable to function, I also have this no idea what is going on and months go by, and I have little memory of how I managed. This has been my experience most of my life. It makes me so very tired and sad. I...

I do not know if we are lazy, I think we didn‘t learn that we are important. I raised a child and worked … in a frozen state of panic. My will would not allow me to not take care of my son. I couldn‘t let him suffer in anyway. This kept me going for 25 years. I cooked, cleaned and worked...

Yes Rose White it really is and it leaves very little room for peace. Thanks for the support 🧚‍♂️