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Hi Bill, I'm a new member here, so I went back and did a read of quite a lot of your previous threads, so that I could try to get where you are coming from. Try anyway. You like children and animals, I like that, it speaks volumes about a man. You are a light warrior and a hero. Again, speaks...

Justmehere, that's a really good point, I didn't see until you said so, that connecting with other people who are working for the same noble and healing thing, is actually a healing thing in itself.

And I have often thought, that I wish I had the money, I hope I do one day, to write a full page Ad full of peoples signatures, in a global newspaper to thank from the bottom of my heart all the Soldiers, Police Officers, detectives, undercover police officers, prosecutors and correctional...

Justmehere, I think that what you are contemplating is clearly a great contribution to make as well as possibly a theraputic action that will give you a focus, if you are up to minimizing the triggers and your responses. I think it is also good that you are directing your energy on a level that...

I am also immersed in the feelings of what this thread is all about for so many subjects on so many levels. I have to chose a positive glass half full view of it otherwise I get angry and resentful. The change is way too slow. I think of it as this. Every one hundred years or so, the entire...

Hi Tiger, I'm home all day today, so if you want to chat I am available. I'm a 45 yo female living in Australia. I can relate to the feelings you were having recently about your body when I read a few of your earlier posts. I saw your recent post and thought I'd read a few earlier ones before I...

Yes, I feel that almost every time. Especially when I tell her something that someone did to me that I 'put up with', I feel as if only an idiot would do that and that she must think I am one. I feel like that when I tell her the bad things I've thought or done in my life or when I feel like a...

Such great advice KwanYingirl, it's so good to hear that from someone who came through the otherside, for all of us.

Hi Joeylittle, I'm going to have a guess at a few things, I just want to stress that, because it's all I can do in this situation, guess. I imagine that being the kind of therapist who deals with trauma that is as profound as yours, your therapist would have to find a way of protecting himself...

I totally understand and believe you. I read my file after my first admission and couldn't believe the crap they wrote in it, twisting what I had said in order to suit the agenda, what ever that really was. I made sure I was very clear so as not to be misinterpreted because I knew that this...

And maybe the Nobel Prize

Yes absolutely, all of the above. Especially in therapy or when I'm not in balance. I used to have a superturbocharged memory, now it's been in a smash up derby.

I'm hearing you, loud and clear (or rather 'Red'), its much better to keep expressing like you are than bury it. Other people got what you deserved and it was not your fault. Now you have to give those things to yourself and allow yourself to believe that you always did and always will deserve...

Smile, that's not weird, that's courage and yep, you've got something very important worked out. I say something similar to myself when I go around in anxiety circles, I say...'I'm going to deal with this, even if I die trying'. Every day is one we don't get back.

Oh matey, (((first a virtual hug))), I'm sorry I just can't call you unloveable415, it's not in my nature to call someone a name like that, especially someone like you. Your brain is trying to do it's best to do it's job, it's that simple. You have taken the brave step of trust and your brain...

We are social mammals, our evolution has programmed us to have a strong urge to merge with the social group, to be accepted and have a place in the 'heirarchy' of the community we live in. What you say Dana1010 about humiliation being so powerful, is a testament to this. Being socially outcast...

Hi November Star, I remember reading your post of encouragement and some of your story when I first joined as a new member last week and thinking how strong you were that day. It sounds to me like you are facing something big, one of those steps forward in therapy that take more courage than...

I agree with the supporters advice given to you above, I'd also like to add what I tell myself in relation to what you are experiencing. When I have an anger, resentment, hatred and blame attack toward those that have harmed me, I remember that stress shortens my Telomeres. In recent years...

Thankyou to everyone who has given their thoughts and opinion on my question. That's given me some good points to think about. I was more specifically asking that question as someone whose nervous system is already impaired with ptsd, not so much as could someone develop ptsd from suicidal...

Hi Lou82, it's so normal to feel the way you do in your situation. What these other survivors have said above is great advice and support. Just having a place like this site to vent is often enough to find the stability your fear losing. I sense that you are enraged about what has happened to...

Yes it is, I guess what you have to decide Ambrose is if you have it in you to give him such a long line of credit for what may turn out to be a lifetime and whether he has it in him to contain himself in a way that doesn't injure you in the long run. :-)

Hi lou82, sorry that you're feeling frightened enough to need such intensive support. I have been in hospital twice whilst having a major attack. It's a difficult question you ask because every country is different, then every hospital is different too and then each psychiatrist has their own...

Hi Ambrose, I'd like to say that having ptsd, if your boyfriend even does have it, is not a pass to act like a jerk, or behave in ways that excuse people from the normal social rules of engagement that the rest of society lives by. Even if someone does have ptsd, they can also have other...

Thankyou desiderata310 and Findingmyself88 for those explanations, it's encouraging to know that if others can do the therapy and go back to life ok, that I might be able to as well. We have really crappy Medicare budget in Australia for anything psychological. You get 10 subsidised sessions...

How sad for you Anthony, you're a puzzle indeed and disappointing that you have the perception of a brick.