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https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/sep/13/island-documentary-steven- Don’t worry, the above is an article. I don’t think there are any triggering surprises in it. Oh man this bothered me this morning. I had to watch my grandmother die in her care home. It was horrible and scarring. I had...

I have an anger problem, but I learned long ago to keep it to myself. As a consequence of this, I will stay quiet if I’m starting to get mad, or if I don’t know what to do or say. Sometimes that’s a problem because I don’t know when or how to speak up anymore. My son is four and also has...

Not at all for the reasons I would have thought. When I was working I set things up for myself so that I get SSD plus supplemental long-term disability, so my "take home pay" is actually a little more than it was back when I was a manager at an IT company, which was my highest paying job. I have...

Has someone in regular conversation ever asked you for your experience with something and then gotten upset or mad because you didn't say what they were expecting? Perhaps even suggested you had an unusual experience and should reassess your position? This has happened to me a few times, most...

I'm really struggling with letting a relationship with my sister go. We did not grow up together and have different mothers. Both of our mothers are worthless old whores, who did everything they could to sabotage their offspring. It's really surprising any of their children function at all. I...

I'm going to post about this here because I think it's hypervigilance. My son is three and is starting at a new preschool next week. I stay home with him because of a physical disability and frankly also PTSD. So he's only going because he wants to, not because we need him to. It's just two...

The last time I saw my therapist she asked me to focus on some pain things, and then she said that I thought that if I didn't bad about my brother being dead, it meant I didn't love him. I DID say that I felt he deserved for people to feel bad that he was gone and that I thought I was the only...

I'm not saying "abusing" because I don't think she's doing anything where I can officially step in. My sister and her (common law) husband recently broke up. Both her and her husband text and call me periodically and tell me all their business. My sister has been yelling at the kids (10 and 8)...

Sorry if this seems trivial. I have PTSD and I have noticed that one of my dogs has it too. My husband and I were separated for a few years and during that time he was seeing a girl who got a puppy. I did see the puppy around sometimes and she was normal then. Normal weight, normal personality...

My sister lives in another state, so I only see her and her kids every couple of years. I love, love, LOVE her kids. I have one son, a toddler. She has three kids, an older teenaged girl and two younger children, a girl and a boy. She recently broke up with her long term, live-in boyfriend, who...

I received a large cache of scanned pictures from my aunt, who is one of the least crazy people on my mom's side of the family. Included were pictures from a "black" period of my life, which don't really remember. When I was 11, 12, 13. I'm now 40. I have my own child. I'm married. I think I'm...

I've been writing and rewriting this post, unsure how to talk about it. My two oldest brothers sexually abused me over the age of 18, but with grooming starting when I was a teenager, mostly online. This was back when the Internet was new for most people. I just found out today that one of the...

I'm not including a lot of detail here just for length. I have one three year old, who was in preschool all last year. He is unusually heavy and strong, I believe gifted, and charismatic. My husband and I had to take him out of preschool when he was 2 1/2 because he got a new teacher and...

Uh...I guess this goes here? Could someone move it if it's in the wrong place? I reported my mom to adult protective services last week. That was a big, big step. My therapist pretty much pushed me into it by making me realize that it was the right thing to do. My mom has been diagnosed as...

Okay so I'm on both SSD and long term disability and don't have to work. But I'm always bored and feel better when I'm helping people so I'm finishing a MS in the next few weeks and starting a PhD. I'm an unfunded adult autism researcher. I volunteer taught refugees years ago before I was a mom...

This is my first thread, so pardon me if I put it in the wrong place. I had a random memory and thought it might be interesting to toss around. Have you ever found yourself in a situation where having PTSD seemed to help you react to an emergency better than other people? Or maybe the opposite...

Hello! I am a 39 year old married woman with a toddler, dogs, cats, a house. I have a degenerative neurological disease that leaves me technically disabled, but at this point that doesn't have much of an impact on my life. Sometimes I can't drive and need help around the house. I got long term...