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    Worries & Concerns

    @Survivor3 with you on that, I have dental issues too. Can't pay for them for few months more so I'm purposefully not worrying about it because there are more urgent stuff. As said as that sounds. I'm worried by the time I get my finances in order I'll get sued. Also that I'm so angry at...
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    In this moment where would you rather be?

    My ballet studio.
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    What Are You Grateful For Today?

    Books that make you cry when you can really really use that.
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    If I Could I Would..

    Never ever ever again remember his face, or anything else about that night.
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    What made you feel better today?

    Writing fanfiction. Nothing like being extremely DRAMATIC in a fictional story, to get all bad emotions out of you and allow you to sync in a different world altogether. In a real book you have to be careful with how realistic you come out of. Fanfiction is just for fun and you can let all your...
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    You Know You Have PTSD When...

    You recheck you have locked the door way too many times at night, and you still don't have a clear recall if it was locked the last time you checked, so you have to check again. Because you can't risk a mistake.
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    Can you get yourself out of hypervigilance or freeze response?

    @arfie Envy away, I'm doing the same right back lol 😆. Personally my life needs a lot of practical changes that need my attention- so really, excess energy would be super welcomes right about now. Today this feeling reached peak, and now I gave up eating mildly healthy cooked food and being...
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    Can you get yourself out of hypervigilance or freeze response?

    Not eventually/with as long as needed but more intentionally? I'm stuck and I'm just digging myself deeper. I was on an upswing for a bit I think and now it's bad for a while. I need to help myself. The longer this goes on the more I abandon even self care activities that help mildly-journaling...
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    I Realize That I

    That really feels like I wrote it right now. Sorry you're feeling the same way.
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    You Know You Have PTSD When...

    The reality being really bad still can't snap you into action if you are in freeze mode. Because the way you feel and what you remember is so much more vivid than anything else. Your sense of time getting so fractured that intense life situations keep creating new ripples of mini traumas that...
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    Naseous and avoiding job applications

    And I got stuck. I'll be brutally honest I got so STUCK, all of December especially. My students were on break, and my clients and my already behind budget fell apart. And I spend days so depressed I only did 3 repeating things that gave me some reprieve from feeling like I couldn't breathe...
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    Readers thread: what or who are you reading right now?

    As someone who enjoys post apocalyptic fiction, I think I totally understand that.
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    I Realize That I

    I am not very hopeful right now, but I need to be to find a path forward.
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    What made you feel better today?

    For us on here we often go to anxiety or depression or something else, so I think every small thing that helps is that much more important. What helped you today, or recently? (Coping skill, gift, a book, coping tool etc.)? What made a difference?
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    Readers thread: what or who are you reading right now?

    On paper: Three Body Problem, Liu Cixin Crime and Punishment- Fyodor Dostoyevsky Audio app with my phone plan: Me before you -Jojo Moyes I like to switch genres... and also medium depending if I'm at home or on the bus/running errands
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    What Are You Grateful For Today?

    Subscription I was gifted in March for 1 year CBT based journaling app... I forgot about it but now seems like the best time to start using it again.
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    Not celebrating the holidays: tips?

    I can't spend a dime for food that isn't what I just have at home leftover, I have to work (apply for work) and I still might be in huge trouble for some bills and I'm too depressed to be festive much... Any tips on what to do? Or maybe how to set my thoughts so the holiday season doesn't make...
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    5 Things I'm Thinking Today

    1. When your job prospects crash with no change in sight, and you have no savings...yeah, that's the thought, my brain literally can't compute 2. It's hard to be in holiday mood if you aren't going to make enough to pay your minimums but all your clients are taking 2 week holiday vacations 3...
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    5 Things I'm Thinking Today

    Note to self: I know things are dark right now but please don't give up. x5
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    Dissociating frequently- coping tools

    Does anything help? I've tried the typical things they say for grounding, counting, reciting stuff, sour candy etc... it's helpful but kind of mildly. Like it helps to make things more tolerable but it doesn't snap me out. Lately I'm so frustrated with realities I can't change, that since I...
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    Quote Of The Day

    “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
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    Naseous and avoiding job applications

    Jeez... the kindness of this literally made me burst in tears as I've not been very kind to myself today. It just felt like I'm doing what I'm doing but if I'm still in the black financially then I'm not doing enough. Anxiety is not really logical. It just felt like I want to scream in the void...
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    Naseous and avoiding job applications

    My budget has been broken all year and I hate it. I am trying to budget and work more and stabilize, but ultimately without savings- one bad week and few life setbacks(winter clothes etc) was enough to lead to a spiral of delayed reactions and postponement and anxiety. I'm trying to give myself...
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    I Realize That I

    I tend to push myself in actually productive way- on the outside- but because I'm pushing my feelings down it usually ends up with me eventually blowing up in one way or another. So productive, just not healthy. But today couldn't do that either. I just had to detach from everything and...
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