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Going through therapy has caused me to see more and more that my childhood was not 'happy and normal' whatever that means but was in fact riddled with abuse. Growing up we moved around a lot, but we seemed to always live in remote places. Small towns, farms, no close neighbors. Anyway I have...

I have been trying to do meditation for 10min a day for two weeks now and my once managed symptoms seem to be compliantly out of control! I'm having nightmares, night terrors, flash backs, and panic attacks. I am depressed and have suicidal ideations. It seems like as soon as I quiet my mind the...

I'm posting this in here because I have no clue where else to post it. Over the past two weeks I've been having increased panic attacks, vivid nightmares, night terrors where I wake up in cold sweats, several flashbacks a day, depression, suicidal ideation (first thought that pops into my head...

So my partner of 7 months and I decided that he will move in at the beginning of May! I'm excited, yet terrified at the same time. We've talked about it off and on for a while now, I've always been the one to say I wasn't ready yet, but I think I'm there. I told him I needed about three months...

I know it goes against a lot of what supporters know to do: "when they are withdrawing, let them, give them space and don't contact them." That being said I think this is one of the several differences between PTSD and C-PTSD. I have anxiety about my partner just 'disappearing' or feel like he's...

Sorry to start out peoples day with this post but I just need to write this all out so that I can process it. If you don't want to read a depressing horror story first thing in the morning I understand, please don't read any further. First some back story: In November a friend of a friend got a...

So I'm going to go get my first tattoo ever today!! I'm excited and nervous. I have wanted to get a tattoo for years but 5 1/2 years in the Navy and I got out with no tattoos. Now over two years later I'm going to do it for my 30th birthday LOL. I'm getting "The Dark Ages are Past" tattooed on...

Ok, this is kind of personal but I've Google all I can and still come up with nothing helpful so here goes: I was sexually abused by my ex (he was my first and only sexual partner for 7yrs) since I left the relationship 2 1/2 years ago I have had multiple one night stands a long term FWB and...

Ok so I have been seeing this guy for a few months now, he is wonderful. He understands PTSD even though he doesn't have it and he is very understanding. He has seen full melt downs and refuses to let me brake up with him when I am triggered even though I have tried more then once. He always...

Hi Everyone, I am new to the blog, but have been living with C-PTSD (diagnosed two years now). I am 29, a Navy vet, single mother of three, survivor of childhood trauma and abuse, as well as survivor of a domestic violence relationship full of all forms of abuse; sexual, psychological...