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i have searched through the net for understanding or support and like others here i never found some where i could go and know that i would be heard... thanks just doesn't seem enough for you anthony.... i am so grateful for connecting with a true spirit... so THANKYOU AND DON'T STOP BEING...

hi and welcome hope it provides you with what your looking for. and know you are not alone with the struggle

generalised anxiety, panic attacks, flashbacks and desensitization is a major factor with ptsd...and all have anxiety related symptoms...as does sexual difficulties..yes you are right.generalized and depilitating. and it would be good and i think helpful to share coping skills and present other...

wow thats deep but very beautiful and so so true..thanku... ...

yep i remember going crazy....seemed as soon as i dealt with one trauma bang up comes another, it happened for years...and i just wanted a break from it all tryed the running away, but you can't i found that out quickly, but anthony is right..you need to sit it and get it out..it does get easier...

yes congrat anthony some more good news....and to go to a game with such a big crowd no wonder your stoked about it..go baby....makes pressing yourself worth it when you hear it can get us there....grouse.....

oh yeah worthwhile reading material that i have read got a bit of a library and have lent books to others who suffer mainly from hospital stays...and they have been enlightened by them..

well anthony i think some more info on coping skills...matters like desensitizing, breathing..ways to cope with the real world as hard as it may seem....using medication wisely and combining them with coping skills as medication is a bandaid as you have stated many of times..we still need to...

well i too stumbled into this forum and i am not a veteran. yet have ptsd and have suffered many tragedy's and all forms of abuse...the first dead body i saw was beaten to death i was 6...not going there i came to this forum and was greeted with open arms...i have felt comfortable and recieved...

well just want to let people know that i have been drug free for 40 days now unbelievable and i am feelin beta and more in control daily.:smile: its no breeze but even my doctor congratulated me and suggested i treat myself something special... the breathing techniques really work and help...

yes :smile: anthony i would really like to giv it a go as it would be great to be able to help others and feel useful..and i do need something to do.. hope to hear from you soon

oh and i enjoy the svu...and ghost whisper.....

well every other year i did get into BB but this year not as much i think the group is not as entertaining yet i still put it on some nights to have the background voices.....hope next years group is beta...though the mother and daughter thing was entertaining on some levels....i was a big fan...

anthony i have been wondering about natural medication like stohn wart and seredyn but i have been told by the nurses in hospital and my doc that they r only good for mild forms of anxiety and sleep and would not be useful for me... i would like to know your opinion on these....as i know i need...

well my doc has tryed effexor, seroquel,zoloft, syprimal (proably spelt wrong), and each one seemed to lower my blood pressure and after a few days he would stop. he has said we need to stay away from them hence the xanax.. i mean i would callopse... yet i have taken nothing for 10 days and...

:dontknow: just want to say that i am thinking of all you and to let you know that i crashed.. so i have been in hospital for the last month..i am still in but have come home and hopefully early next week i will be discharged.. i have come of the xanax was that hard.. but i didn't think...

thats cool anthony i was worried until i got your reply considering i just discovered your site which is now in my favorites...thankyou

okay the final say at court was your the one seeing a psych.not him.... ...and my children ages was 9,11.13.15. that was 7 years ago..i was a teen mum...they saved my life and gave me life...they are my life...and that is the only area i am blessed... ....that didn't stop me i just went the...

okay answer to children no custody issue.... my ex cut all my hair of after i had surgery for massive hemorage....that wat it took to escape him...i did have the children at first but he made sure i had no money. ..so i couldn't feed them he did...through going to court for 7 yrs costing me...

Well I don't think my first intro was fair compared to others so I will introduce myself again... I am a female survivor of child sexual, physical and mental abuse, which continued into my teens and marriage. I was brutally raped 7 years ago and no justice from the law. I did have four...

i have been taking xanax for years and now my doc who has forever wanting to try new ones wants me tp go on deptran..... i am curious how many of us get played around with meds and if or wat ones has helped them....i know it frustrates the jibbers out of me.... :crazy:

thanks again i am going crazy with relief...i am trying so hard to get some one to relly acknowledge the fear in going to sleep that i suffer badly...another print out....wow

<added by anthony: I have moved these posts from the PTSD cup explanation for discussion here.> wow thats new for me...i am printing this to show to my doc tommorrow and see wat he throws back...but it does help me understand were i am at...thanks

Well PTSD is post traumatic stress disorder (new name for the new age) and now its either just ptsd or complex so doctors can explain away there misgivings easier, but piglet I have read some of your posts, and I gotta tell you I can feel for you. I too was revisiting certain family members...

yep gotta agree.....well i want to feel that some one is out there that is not going to tell me, its a nice world, deep breathe, smell the damn roses... actually C_PTSD is wat i came across while surfin the net.. last night..i will be discussing it with my doc though he already tells me i am...