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Awesome!!! I've smoked thousands of packs of cigarettes. Owned three or four disposable lighters that have actually run out of fuel....I love that singed hair smell when lighting cigarettes off of the stove burners..

First guided meditation tonight. Also first time to attempt exercising (Classical Stretch) in quite some time. Three cups of high test coffee. Going to have to reconsider the coffee thing. Wow. Kind of feel like a grubby old toy with it's face scrubbed and set right side up. Much better than...

Joeylittle said it perfectly. And write your fear down as well, so you won't get tongue-tied. I know it's hard. I'm far to old to be squemish about talking to doctors or therapists. But I am, especially about private, difficult things. Especially if I fear crying in front of them, or any...

When you've spent as much time looking for the broom as you have spent cleaning the house. And then there's the whole dust pan situation.

Exactly how you said it here would be just fine. It is clear and honest. Your psychiatrist should react in a gentle and thoughtful way; to say this as a young patient deserves respect as it is obviously not an easy thing to say. I find if I have difficult things to say to doctors, I write it...

Hi Ejectionseatfixer! I'm kind of in your shoes, so don't have any advice...my first therapy session is in 10 days....But welcome! The folks here are very kind and helpful. I hope you get the help you need.

Perfectly tainted shards destroy Pretty tinkling shredding darts Phrases tumbling, shadowed darkness Praying tomboys shreik desertion. Pain trampled supplicates, drowns.

When I read a trauma diary like yours, I feel so humble. You are amazing. It has been awhile since you posted here, and I'm new. Your ability to transform your life despite so much adversity---and ptsd. Helping your grandfather until his death. This is and was incredible. I hope you are getting...

I would like to participate in this challenge, as well. I've never received a personal message here. I'm assuming it will show up in the envelope by the flag above my name? Wow. Compassion towards self. Just had an avalanche of thoughts tellling me why this is Ms Spock, I clicked on the...

I would like to participate in this challenge, as well. I've never received a personal message here. I'm assuming it will show up in the envelope by the flag above my name? Wow. Compassion towards self. Just had an avalanche of thoughts tellling me why this is not a good idea and how I can...

That is SO awesome!!!! You GO!!! HOLY ummm COW!!!

Jane, thanks for the direction to the thread on Dealing With Anger. That has been such a problem in my life. All or nothing, labeling, shunning, shaming anger. Thinking it protects me, hoping it destructs 'them'. It only destroys me and makes life awful for the people stuck living with me. Hard...

Mosaic, I'm so sorry that silence is what you judge to be best. And most of all that your attacker still has the ability to hurt you. I know, somewhat, how that feels. My therapist encouraged me to confront my molester. So I did, in a tearful phone conversation. Where he didn't remember...

Will be thinking of you all week! Good luck, get the help you need! Big hugs!

I had to go inpatient for a month when my son was four years old. Then had six weeks of outpatient therapy. This happened in the middle of a stressful move, so my husband had to accomplish that by himself, and go on without me. There really wasn't any choice for me. They survived. Please do what...

Summer Ava, I'm having a difficult time getting the quote function to work. What you said about re-traumatizing victims in therapy and 12 step meetings.....awesome, how you stated it so perfectly. And it goes right along with trying to explain to family and friends, this nightmare. Most women...

Dear Summer Ava....THANK YOU for your post. For saying what I couldn't frame words around. Thank you. I so appreciate it. In our case, the sexual activity was so well hidden that it is still difficult for me hinge the addictive behavior to the addiction. The therapist I'm going to see has been...

Thanks again everyone. I did not work up the guts to call a therapist until late Friday afternoon. I just want to say that if it turns out that I do not have PTSD, this forum helped me to take that step. Thanks for the kind words and information. Oh, and what is meant by the symptom or behavior...

I just went to the page on this site that explains trauma as applied to PTSD. A few events in my life I'm fairly sure meet the criteria. I count seven of those. I woke from a surgery in a psycotic state and stayed that way for three days, reaction to ketamine which was being pumped into my vein...

Wow. I definitely drank far too much coffee for this day right here. Thank you everybody for all your input. I don't have any answers about some partners of sex addicts being treated for PTSD, I just know that some of them are. I hope if they are seeking help, they get it somehow. I DO...

Vey poorly thought out before posting. I was responding to something, but wanted to pose a question to the group as well. The question is "Can the discovery of sex addiction tip someone's mental health into PTSD?" Partners of sex addicts are being treated for PTSD. Even if the vehicle for the...

The name of the thread should have been: Sex addiction and PTSD in partners of an Addict. I don't know how to change it now..... <mod edit: done>

I will also say this. Stumbling upon a stash of pornography years or decades into a relationship that depicts, let's say, children being raped, redifines reality for a partner, of who they are living with. It explains, in that moment, thousands of moments suspected but not fully perceived. This...

It is time to bite the bullet and go to counseling. It is hard for me to trust that process. We were in marriage counseling for years. I was spilling my guts, my husband did not/could not be honest. So I would leave sessions feeling totally exposed and vulnerable. The therapist did not...

Much pacing, cigarette smoked, doing ok. I think I realize that FridayJones was only trying to be helpful. Therapists and other professionals see that partners of sex addicts are exhibiting symptoms of PTSD. That is all I know. In my case, I am in a relationship that didn't cause my...