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I know there's no quick fix. Thanks for your reply. I'm glad people get it and I'm sure I will be further in healing when I go to this forum for support and reinforcement. slowly but surely one step at a time I will move forward. It took me 8 years to get to where I am now where I acknowledge...

Nice way of looking at it. Hard to see the shore when you've been swimming in rough seas for a long time.

I thank you. I hope so too. I think it will be

I already am feeling healing because I know I'm not alone. Part of my trauma is that my chief abuser said to me that I am a freak and I have issues and that nobody will listen to me because I'm so demented etc So I felt all alone and still do. I felt like I'm the only one who's suffered and...

I don't think that would help. But thanks for your understanding I know oppression is a fact of life for some and it was my fact but I am suffering from PTSD and something that is called complex trauma. I'm at the state where I need to release what happened with someone qualified and make sense...

I see I myself have noticed a strong difference with me and my personality prior and after the cult. Before the cult I was carefree, hardly worrying, looking forward to challenges and I had a little bit of fear associated with past trauma but it was barely effecting me. Now after cult and more...

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Greetings all, I was involved in a cult (thats what I consider it to be). This cult was operating under a respectable religious denominations banner but it is still a cult. The pastor of this church was telling people how to live their lives and was also seeking to pair couples up in the...

Sorry to hear that. Yes, my hypervigalence is extreme. I'm glad to hear it is common and due to PTSD and not some genetic type of thing. Being on the lookout for danger all the time. The shopping mall for me has turned into a minefield of "who's that? What are they looking at me for? What the...

I've just woken up and it's 6:23am and I'm immediately looking for danger. Most of my thoughts are like this "gasp! Who's that? What are they doing? What's happening? Gasp!" Even if my family members who are neutral (that is haven't abused me) say "he wants you to call her back" to each other, I...

Hi. I have been diagnosed with GAD by my former psychologist but I have been diagnosed by mental health support services as having PTSD, complex trauma type. I was the victim of physical and emotional abuse from the age of 0 until the age of 26. The abuse was by multiple perpetrators in multiple...