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My trauma was fire/ems. I just started a thread under pain...I think. Orgasm has always been to some degree a big stress reliever when dealing with other peoples trauma and my PTSD. Without it I am a bigger mess. The really strange thing that stumps me is a recent urge, need to feel...

I have an increasing desire...more like a need, to feel emotional pain, humiliation, punishment and pleasure. This makes NO sense in my life, history, disability, etc. Simply it does not fit "me". Emotional pain doesn't seem to quite describe it. God knows I've seen enough of that. So I...

Trust and Purpose are the biggest needs of many ptsd sufferers. Right now I am a big flipping mess and I have no idea why. I know the way to start trusting again is simply start trusting again. Right now I don't want to be around anybody.

My long experience with EMDR can be summed up like this : EMDR opens up buried trauma. At that point the trauma is discussed and the therapist helps uncover any lies we believe because of trauma, etc. Therapist helps come up with a positive mantra that you can believe....and does the emdr...

I know its not fun, but the only way out is to talk about and "process" those painful memories. It is all those buried things that cause ptsd in the first place. For what it is worth, EMDR was my saving grace. It isn't easy....but it can change everything. Not magic but I know of no other...

Hi, as of about 15 years ago, SSDI was availabe (maybe), only if you can not work. They review after some time to see if you are able to work so you can be on and off of it as needed more or less. You need documentation from every provider who will back up the claim or unable to work. I got...

When I first imploded with ptsd, I had a constant movie of all the trauma I had ever worked ,playing 24 hours a day for 3 weeks. The med. Trazadone stopped all that and turned them into normal rockwell type, slow moving movies....and I slept ! Long after that, EMDR was the single best treatment...