Search results

Last night was the first night of peace since Sunday and a much needed change. Of course, events are currently happening, but I must get a video storyboard finished and a press release out the door before I tune back into social media and the news. My mind is a tad foggy, but nothing I can't...

WOW! Yup, seems to be on target for me at least. I'm currently being told what is happening is not only a known nearly life-long trauma ending with an extreme work environment that finally brought me to my knees, but also developmental since I was adopted and my mother was experiencing a lot of...

LOL... I've been laughing at this as well. As a marketer, I get the ins and outs of it. It's been nothing short of amazing that all ads for me involve video cameras and various editing software since that's what I've been researching for a while for some non-profit video work.

My apologies Anthony. I should have added a link, but justmehere provided a really wonderful and much more positive link than I would have been able to provide. And thank you GoHungry for your support.

Hope I'm posting in the right place. Seriously though, I live only 10 minutes from what has been happening. I've kept silent here and to those in my life about what I've been experiencing, but yesterday finally ended in shutting all electronics off and being told to take the Xanax (or whatever...

Hello and welcome! I hear exactly where you are coming from!!!! EXACTLY!!! I have and still do have an extremely hard time understanding how my last job brought me to my knees and produced my PTSD. My therapist explained that I have lived with trauma throughout my life in many forms and that...

I wasn't his biggest fan, but I truly appreciate him regardless. Was surely saddened to hear the news and angered when people were saying negative things and being generally ignorant of the true issue at hand. The Guardian posted an article stating that everyone needs to remember that suicide...

Only a hand full of people at the moment. Most people were scared away two years ago, and understandably so. A few people said they thought I was doing meth or something similar because they saw me change so fast in front of their eyes and couldn't explain it otherwise. Guess it's time to reach...

Guess I should add that I only work 4 hours per week for the secondary non-profit, with occasional outside work. I was asked to produce a press release today and for some reason my brain wasn't cooperating. The only thing I could develop was a very bad and extremely non-cohesive draft... I...

Thank you!!! As a gay man, I thoroughly understand that analogy. I suppose that "hiding" is a huge part of the triggers I'm experiencing at the moment. I want to be as helpful as I possibly can for the cause the second non-profit stands for! It's something I truly believe in and know they are...

Just a bit of background before the questions. I left my job 2 years ago at the strong urgency of my therapist since I developed PTSD right before her eyes. After that, I was suffering so bad that I kept myself as busy as possible to distract myself for about a month then I broke my ribs and...

Interesting!

Welcome. I get what you are saying for sure. I always must have my back to a wall so no one can sneak up on me and so there isn't activity behind me. Also, my own issues resolved 2 years ago and I figured given time this condition (intrusive thoughts, flashbacks, memory and time loss, hyper...

Escape strategies are surely good to have, but what I was suggesting was more personal relationship boundaries. I get it though. When everyone is together in the heat of the moment we all forget things, and sometimes boundaries included. For me, it was going to people individually and explaining...

I have a difficult family myself, so I kinda get this. Years ago I had to learn how to control what I would and would not accept and tell them my own rules if we were going to continue any sort of meaningful relationship. Have you thought about the rules you need to maintain your own sanity in...

Wow! A great question and honest responses! I'll be rereading what people have said again. For me, what happened literally destroyed me to my core. It took everything I believed myself to be (kind, understanding and patient) and flushed that down the drain. It destroyed me to watch myself...

Hello and welcome! I am new here as well. Sometimes I'm terrified to say things as well, but I am finding talking with others really helps. Not everyone gets me nor what I post, but that is ok. We all come from very different places to where we are today.

Best wishes to you. I was finally put on a drug similar to Xanax (can't remember the name at the moment). I've fought hard to keep off of these, but I finally knew I needed it to get through a situation 2 weeks back. It worked and it took a lot of internal muster to even take the pill to start...

Should be an interesting session with my therapist, especially now that I have accepted PTSD enough to hear the diagnosis and actually remember being told. I've been interviewing trauma sensitive yoga therapists and practitioners as well as a few meditational guidance people for insights to how...

Yup, as the others have said, get out of that job! I didn't listen to that advice when I knew the job was toxic, and as a result was repeatedly traumatized and developed PTSD. I love challenges and thought I could handle the job, but once the true colors of those in authority started showing it...

Glad to hear you are in therapy. Just as these events have been happening for so long they have also been that deeply engrained. They won't just go away because you acknowledge that they exist and will take time and effort to move beyond them. In the meanwhile, acknowledge your strengths and...

I would personally think that since they are non-personal and generic, they may help a tad but would be prone to setting off unforeseen triggers that a one-on-one approach would be able to better assist with. That being said, I have found learning about PTSD to be an extreme relief for myself...

While I can only imagine what you have been through, I can understand the "robot" part. That's a huge part of what got me where I am today. Everyday, month after month for over 4 years, I told myself: "I've got this. I can do this. I can figure this out. Ok, yet another unrealistic thing to do...

This time last year, I had just recovered from broken ribs. The "downtime" and the pain meds really messed my mind up because it afforded me a lot of time to dwell on the trauma that ended one year prior. Although I was getting better, I was doing everything in my power to mask the pain, lashing...

D-art13, I hear you about one on one. Just not sure how I feel about being with a group (even a small one) of strangers. Further, should something happen in their presence it would just make things worse for me, especially since they would probably have no clue what was happening. I'd hate to...