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I don't even know where to begin. It's all so complicated. I guess that's why it's called complex trauma. Anyway. I have had a complicated relationship with a cousin since we were kids. We have many differences, but still considered each other best friends or even sisters. However I realized...

Hello everyone. It's been a bit. I wanted to share some news. I applied for disability this past December (2015). Got a lawyer, the whole bit. She said it would take three years for a decision. I almost didn't apply--I was devastated at having to wait so long. After filling out tons of...

Hey everyone. I'm sorta new and haven't posted in awhile (due to cognitive distortions telling me no one here likes me or my posts :/ ). I decided to come back to talk about the holidays. Each year I my baseline anxiety increases about 5 degrees or so about a week before Thanksgiving and...

Has anyone here had to break up with their partner because their own issues triggered you too much and they weren't willing and/or able to work on themselves enough? Not because they're abusive or bad people or even triggering you on purpose. I'm only talking about otherwise loving people, but...

Good evening all. Last July when I had my last pelvic and PAP I scheduled this year's exam for July again. However, something pretty traumatizing happened to me in April which has brought up a lot of things from my past. Since April I've experienced severe panic attacks and anxiety and...

My husband and I are separated. Too many reasons to write about here. Bottom line--I'm all in but he still has one foot out the door, so to speak. One of the problems is that for all of our marriage I wasn't all in and because of this undiagnosed ptsd, I had no idea why but I treated him like...

Noticing a vast amount of empathy here. Much more than I encounter in most of the people around me. Of course as a cpts sufferer people, I have mostly existed in invalidating environments. Then of course my stunted emotional maturity creates more invalidation towards me from coworkers, friends...

You guys. I can't stop shaking my head at how much better I feel after a major breakthrough I just had. I have to set it up first though: It was during sort of an argument with my husband. He cheated on my in March while we were living apart during a separation. Seeing other people was not...

This quote from author and literary journalist Joan Didion speaks powerfully to me. Anyone else? "To have that sense of one’s intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be...

Hey everyone, This is my intro. I am recently diagnosed after suffering from this debilitating illness my entire life. I was emotionally neglected and abused since my first day on this earth. All of my PTS behaviors were chalked up to character and personality defects which led to further abuse...