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i feel very strange on this drug combo! the first three days i felt a bit derealized like things were oversaturated and just a bit weird all around, also stimulated from the bp, and then i took the second pill at night tonight for the first time and i am feeling kind of high? vision has a kind...

thank you for sharing, i hope your condition continues to improve!

i have read somewhere that PTSD can be linked to low heart rate variability but nothing about low pulse rate. some googling does show a possible connection, interesting. i can share anecdata that my heart rate (resting at 57ish which is lower side but not terribly so) rarely rises with...

can you talk about how you know it is helping your depression? i know that is a weird question kind of because maybe it should be obvious but i am curious how you evaluate/quantify if something is helping.

i finally decided to bite the bullet and try auvelity $$$$. my psychiatrist had sample bottles and gave me 60 pills for free, which should be enough to know whether i want to pursue finding discounts or petitioning insurance to pay for it. i’m a little nervous because i have two current...

i’m sorry to hear about your dog. sending good thoughts.

my cat.

i’m so sorry. i just went through this a month ago (cat declined suddenly) and i’m still a real mess about it. i remember the moment of knowing it was going to happen but hadn’t yet and that helplessness, and then driving him there unable to believe it was really happening, the dreaming feeling...

yes i’m pretty sure i was in the middle of an exceptional acute but long-term stressor when this was happening frequently. not physical exhaustion, but possibly it was the inverse, where emotional exhaustion was causing episodes of physical collapse. and now that is more relegated to the therapy...

hmm. sometimes something similar happens to me but not exactly the same. i will go from normal-awake to heavily falling asleep, can’t keep my eyes open, as if i were hit with a tranquilizer dart. seemingly without a trigger. it also doesn’t seem to depend on my sleep habits or hours. it mostly...

i feel like you didn’t provide this context from your other comment, that T routinely leaves on vacations for 1-2 weeks and is gone 5 weeks total from april-july. this seems a lot of time away from your description and would be disruptive for me in my healing, as well as aggravate attachment...

i'm in your boat. i don't know who everyone even is, who i am a lot of the time, why exactly this has happened, if i am right about what i think i know about any of it, and all "alter activity" is mostly intrusive and fleeting. i feel like what she expects from you is several steps ahead of...

curious to hear how it goes. idk if i can afford it anymore due to sudden vet bills that ironically included ketamine for my cat instead of me… but maybe.

i was on lithium for awhile last year (for maybe a year? not sure) when i was thought to have bp2 and it made me number on top of numb. it helped me with my sleep and possibly my anxiety over poor work productivity? but i feel like because of that i was even less productive. that said think...

this is the DID specialist!?

yes, just joining in to say this is common for me.

i do experience something like cycling along the continuum of freeze and collapse/faint, which may be what is happening? i sometimes alternate between hyperarousal and hypoarousal throughout a session esp if the session is longer. i also spent many entire sessions of the first year frozen and...

i have taken prazosin, but i stopped because i wasn’t getting much benefit. for awhile i took trazadone also but it had a bad side effect for me. i might look into it again.

i honestly don't take it very often. maybe once or twice a month when i remember i have it. it was given to me when i was having these narcoleptic-like sleep attacks (going from feeling normal alert to suddenly falling asleep where i shouldn't be, like in work meetings) that i think were due to...

how long did it take for your recovery to progress since starting therapy? i only did it a handful of times to see if i was snoring, talking, sleep eating, etc (i live alone, for 10 years now) -- the camera is motion activated and will pick up events and you can just watch those without...

i read about postraumatic chronodisruption here. i have mild but accumulative sleep issues compared to many with ptsd/cptsd. in briefer acute episodes i have insomnia and/or nightmares i wake up terrified from in the middle of the night, unable to go back to sleep out of fear of re-entering...

i’m sorry you’re in this situation. no, complex ptsd is not only from childhood. however you are in the middle of the situation, not “post-trauma.” this is important to keep in mind. can you see a therapist? when you are able to read more about this you may consider reading a foundational book...

oh that is interesting! it seems that you have a lot of different types of traumas, does that seem to make a difference in what kind of FB you get? or is it more like, associated with the level of overall stress you're under during a period? or just seemingly randomized?

thanks! i did read that book a few years or so ago but i've forgotten it all so maybe it is time for a reread. i remember finding it pretty activating at the time and not knowing quite why, but i understand more now. i do usually respond with the creepy numb calm, except in one kind of...

it seems that some people have the full reliving cinematic immersive type flashbacks (you're for a moment back in the war because of a loud noise that triggered you, you're having consensual sex and your partner is suddenly your rapist), while others tend to have more partial sensory flashbacks...