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Oh and I've not been in therapy much with the VA at least not individual therapy except with a few interns one of which had been pretty terrible.

I went to the VA locally for therapy for CPTSD and found I was being lumped with people with PTSD and were abusers of others who got PTSD from abusing others, very much not compatible with me at all. Locally there are no MST related groups any more, which is one of the issues I faced during my...

Well, you might want to leave that relationship as being highly toxic and antithetical to your continued existence. Just a suggestion.

I was a fire dispatcher/911 call taker with a very large poplulation county (Los Angeles County) in the state of California, USA, although I don't attribute my CPTSD from there but some things that happened there didn't help and for a while hearing a standard ringtone from old fashioned phones...

Yes, I was used as the excuse as to why my biological father had to marry my mother and he in turn acted in passive agressive ways against us both to quit his jobs, take drugs, neglect me, abuse me and have sexual parties exclusive of my mother's knowledge and participation but in full view of...

Honestly, I've had bad experiences with therapists, so its a dance on thin ice between what I can tell them without being involuntarily committed. Had that happen plenty of times and it only reaffirms my desire never to be involuntarily committed again.

Almost as soon as it was put in the DSM as an actual legitimate diagnosis, I was diagnosed with CPTSD and prior to that just about anything with a component of Major Depression, Chronic and similar diagnoses, along with what they thought was unrelated or somatoform disorders, which the medical...

Also former military (US Army Active 1986-1991). During my time period the Army was a hostile place if you were even suspected of being what they considered any of the LGBTQ spectrum. Varying levels of in/tolerance depending who you were/where you were, etc. Even if someone thought you could out...

If you think about it, manipulation in some form is common in human exchanges. When manipulation is basically harmless its fine, when it becomes abusive then its not fine. However, getting what we need is a product of manipulation in some form, again. The whole point of CBT is to get you to...

Sounds like some form of dissassociation possibly if the events actually happened to YOU. Other possibilities exist, the whole thing is I am not there to verify and gather more information. Talking to a mental health specialist seems totally reasonable to me and attendance by other people who...

Oh and yeah, survivor's guilt is a thing, there might be a good reason and then again maybe dying would have had no effect on whether anyone else had survived or not and at this point it doesn't do anyone any good unless he changes his behaviors to do something proactive to give back without...

Technically, Memorial Day is to remember those who died while serving in the military, often 'war dead' but you can include those whose service either directly or indirectly led to their death. Veteran's Day is to appreciate those who are alive and served. Armed Forces day is to appreciate those...

I'd say that this is a combination of things. One is you both have a boundaries issue, she steps over yours and you can't stick to yours, so you send a mixed message. That combination in itself will probably lead to more abusive behavior which I feel that this is. Apparently, she may have a...

I have Body Dysmorphic Disorder in addition to my CPTSD and a variety of other things mental and physical, which seem to stem from the prolonged fear response and related adrenaline release may have caused constant inflammation in my body, which possibly led to a lot of what's going wrong with...

I need to know the name of this clinic that will assist a person with suicide without having a prognosis of death within a year.

You can feel for others in pain but still not understand them well. Although I have to say I find it difficult to empathize with a person crying over a ruined manicure when I and many other people have problems much worse that that person doesn't empathize with at all.

You aren't any different with the diagnosis than before the diagnosis. I haven't been diagnosed formally, but a therapist who has her own little aspie said I have a lot of the traits and yes I do have a hard time reading emotions in others except when its extremely obvious and social/politics in...

Way past time to get a restraining order.

A city that is not friendly to Christians? This is in the United States? I didn't think it could be possible unless we're talking Salt Lake City, which I still think of as being a Christian spin-off and maybe San Francisco, which I would consider not so much unfriendly to Christians as open...

During my own service, sexual harassment was a common occurrence when a unit that had women in it and a unit that had no women in it interacted which was common via combat support units supporting a combat unit. Rapes occurred less frequently, as did forcible sodomies, but they did happen and...

The press likes to refer to anyone serving in the military as a soldier, but people in the military don't. Marines usually hate to be reminded that they're not even a department unto themselves, they are part of the Department of the Navy. Like others have said, they're not going to accidentally...

That's because its the Army National Guard as opposed to the Air National Guard.

Its helpful for me for looking at thoughts of powerlessness, which are just thoughts not always reality. I make choices often in a split second, without looking at the process of decision. Even when all the choices are bad, I still make choices - often the proverbial lesser of two or more evils...

Well, you've certainly answered what will happen if YOU stop thinking about it. I think that in a certain group of people that could be the case. I think everyone experiences boredom but many can find bearable ways with dealing with it and the level of intensity obviously varies from person to...

Is this just a matter of purpose, what it sounded like in another statement, or as of boredom, meaning you need a higher level of stimulation, somewhat characterized by the term "adrenaline junkie"? Am I way off base here?