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Last one is the best IMO. Thanks for making me laugh Anthony. BTW I have a son named Anthony. He's smart and handsome. maria

Hi 2quilt I've been an inpatient more than once. The business about using the bathroom or showering has applied only when I've made a serious suicide attempt and only for a day or two. That's not the situation in your case anyway. As far as clothing is concerned, I always been allowed to wear...

Hi Anni I don't think there should be an arbitrary time limit for therapy. I think a lot depends on the type of therapy and the extent of our individual problems. I've been seeing my current psychiatrist longer than 5 years. His style is psychoanalytic which takes a long time. This guy is in...

I'd like to go too. But I think we should bite the bullet and not go during off season. I've been to Florida during the off season. It's way too hot to do anything outdoors, (people go from the air conditioned house to the ac car to the ac store), hurricanes can occur and the insect population...

I read this article after I put up my venting post. I see a lot of what happened this morning in this article. Because things didn't work out as I had planned, I was not only angry but frozen and unable to respond. I used to call this over-reacting. Now I know it's an emotional flashback to a...

Just Need To Vent Yesterday I decided I'd go to the senior center today to play Wii bowling. Not an exciting activity, but I've been home alone too much lately. I had to return books to the library anyway, and it's in the same building. So I called for a ride with the senior bus. One of the...

Hi irs I agree with you about the current generation of psychiatrists. I'm lucky to have an old fashioned one. I take 2 meds and neither was prescribed by him. However, his reluctance to prescribe wasn't the best treatment IMO. One of the meds I take was prescribed by a psychiatrist at a...

Hi CCurry You're on shaky ground, if you don't mine me saying so. Only another professional can judge the efficacy of a therapeutic relationship, and even they have difficulty doing so. You're not asking an objective question. You're questioning the competency of your bf's therapist. What you...

Hi darkskies, I'm glad to hear you're considering alternatives to self-medicating. It sounds like you're in a really bad place right now. Do you have a therapist? If so, she/he could refer you to a psychiatrist who could prescribe something for sleep. I know how tough it is when you can't get...

Hi Native Rose What you are describing is DID. Your child is a second personality. Some people use the words "inner child" in a way I consider sloppy psycho-babble, but they're not talking about what you describe at all. The ideal way to proceed, as I understand it, would be to try to integrate...

Hi Kasper, I have intrusive thoughts, but they don't vary much. Either I'm thinking about things I've done 'wrong' in the past, or I'm trying to ward off the anxiety of a difficult present situation by obsessively thinking about what I should do and say. I've developed a trick to deal with...

Hi Monarch My parents, both of them, were my original abusers. Then my husband beat the crap out of me for upteen years until I divorced him. He got his therapist to call me. Do you believe? Then one day maybe 6 years after the divorce I came home one day and found him standing by the front...

I guess it depends on what medication we're talking about. I've taken so many different one. That's because for years and years I was being treated for depression. The professionals didn't realize I had PTSD. Nothing I ever took for depression helped. But it did give me some really nasty stuff...

Hi goingonhope, Thanks for your reply. It's very helpful to know that others have this happen even after they've done a lot of work on their problems. If I'm with people, I usually act pretty irrationally. I blame others for upsetting me. And then I escape and often never speak to that person...

Hi Pixie, I've had people tell me what I'm feeling is "normal" too. It does hurt when people don't get it. But for the most part, I think they are well-meaning. They're just trying to make us feel better. Maybe I'm crazy (ha ha), but it helps me to admit at least to myself that I am mentally...

It sounds like a crack pot system. But the US has got its own bureaucratic problems. At one point in my life I had several problems all at once. I lost my housing, broke my write and lost my job. I had to be hospitalized because I was suicidal. I had to have some financial support because I'd...

If I stand back and try to look at myself objectively, little things like someone who might even remotely be angry are very unsettling for me. And it seems that the more I know about myself, PTSD, the more therapy I have, the more easily I get shaken. I understand why possible anger upsets me...

Thanks for the support everyone. I do think I need to have a talk with her. I've had the experience of doing a good job and still being let go. I do think I'm being realistic about her reaction toward me. And I think it's a sign of growth that I can recognize problematic reactions. At other...

I hope it works out for you. If you feel up to it, you might post about what you're going through. Someone here might have some insight. maria

I just want to say what a comfort it is to have people I can listen and talk to who are like me, who were traumatized a children. Until now I'd only met people who developed PTSD as adults or people who were in denial about the damage caused by the abuse they suffered as children. So thank you...

Like several of the people who replied, I've had PTSD since early childhood. It's as if I were born with it. Those of you who had a life before PTSD are lucky, believe it or not, because you had a core personality (which I never did), so there's a good chance you can get back most of it...

I'm having almost no anxiety today. :clap: I think I'm a little more confident about being able to talk about myself. Also I'm being careful not to read some of the stuff that might trigger me. maria

no problem maria

Good advice. Thanks maria

Hi trapped. I live about 20 minutes from Boston. Small world! :hello: Hi Shoka, :hello: Yeah, the commute into Boston can be tough. I take the train which often isn't any easier. I actually canceled an appointment with my shrink on Thursday. Almost never do that. It's nice to know there...