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I guess I'm old. There aren't many baby and toddler pictures of me. Plus my mom has them all put away somewhere so I never see them any more. But I do know what you mean. I've thought the same before. I looked like a regular baby, fuzzy headed, drooling, grinning thing. I looked like a mess as...

I'm so sorry :( You're right about the positives and I'll bet something far better is waiting for you.

I'll answer this. It varies. There are apartments with no washer/dryer connections, there are some apartments that have the hookups, but you have to buy your own machines (like mine), and there is also the rare rental that actually has a washer and dryer equipped. I've lived in all of 1 of...

So much of this! I'd say leave it alone. I don't think this applies exclusively to folks with ptsd. I don't think most people want to constantly talk about bad things that happened, or things that remind them of those things, or things that could potentially remind them of those things. I'll...

A cash only system works pretty well for me- when I actually do it. I divide it among envelopes for various things. But it's time consuming and it falls along the wayside every time I try it. We are so bad with money it makes me physically ill. I'm constantly worrying about it, constantly...

When I first read your post I thought, geez, glad my husband and I don't insist on complete transparency. That sounds like prison to me. Some people really don't want or need to share everything, or to rehash long past events. I'm one of them. Always will be. I don't think that's a thing it's...

Oh no, don't worry about that @Saelben ! I'm not over here crying about it. I know that you didn't write the article, and even if you had it's not the article itself that irritated me. It's some prevailing notions about creative endeavors altogether. You know, there was a movie sort of like...

I relate so much to these things. I've spent most of my life vacillating between feeling like an alien and feeling like everybody else is. I don't know if I'd say it's easier for folks who had a normal, happy childhood. It seems to me that they would have more of a world to destroy. Kind of...

I believe it could have been, but I don't believe that it was. You can read into anything. That doesn't mean the message you're taking from it was intentionally put there. There were things in the explanation you posted that were almost offensive. I'll attempt to explain. The "family fantasy"...

Hmm, I would like to get some exercise in and to paint some while my husband is at the store and my kid is asleep. I think I'm actually going to do those things! I would also like to not have to call about this paperwork, but it has to be done.

Yeah, I can relate to this. It's hard to know where that line is. Do I blame my father for ruining our lives? Do I blame my mother for staying with him and being sucked into all that? Do I blame my mother entirely for causing harm instead of protecting me so much of the time? Do I blame myself...

They found mine was really low in February. I took a prescription supplement (the 50,000 iu) for a couple of months and was re-tested. The number went up quite a bit, but I'm still in the deficient range so I take 10,000 u in otc supplements every day with a magnesium/calcium/*zinc and a b...

One outright told me her age. One is an assumption based on life events she talked about and her children and grandchildren's ages. The one I haven't actually seen yet is a guess based on her picture and graduation years.

Our marriage counselor was in her 60s. I'm approaching mid 30s and my husband is in his early 40s. We got along fine with her. It wasn't weird. But then this last individual therapist I went to was also older, 67 if I remember correctly, and I felt like I couldn't talk to her. It felt too much...

I was seconds away from saying this: Your ptsd isn't going to be the thing that ruins your marriage. It's your asswipe husband. But I have obviously been beaten to it. Even ignoring your diagnosis or your recent problems- he is disrespectful, mean and childish. I can't imagine those traits...

Oh yeah. I kept so much from my last therapist it was almost pointless to be there. I started a journal to write it all out instead. So I'm writing about my whole life and and as soon as I got to the stuff I avoid talking about I couldn't write anymore, hid the whole thing and haven't picked it...

@Flossy : both my doctor and therapist say that typically things will continue to improve until about the 6 month mark, and that after 6 months you're about as good as you're going to get on the bupropion. I'm not taking anything else so I don't know about any other medications. Maybe a dosage...

Interesting to think about. It's hard to say whether magnesium has had any effect on me. I have to take magnesium and calcium along with my vitamin D. The D by itself makes me really sick and I have to take it due to a deficiency that's slowly creeping back up toward normal. I've been taking all...

If I do have ptsd I've had it since I was at least 8. So I don't know anything else, but I absolutely lose my shit over minor things and have a really hard time with sensory overload. I always have. I was talking about this same thing with my friend who also has this problem just last night. I'm...

This is kind of a complicated question. I can easily say my son. My life revolves around him. Everything I do is geared toward him. I'm trying to "fix" myself- for him. So that he has a healthy, sane mother who doesn't f* his life up and all. And to make sure that he grows up with the best sense...

Unfortunately I'd probably be pretty much the same. Smiling at everybody and trying to be upbeat all the time like it's my job in life to keep everything positive and happy. :banghead: But it's an interesting thing to think about!

I've gotten really bad this year, too. I feel like I eat nothing but junk and I can't stop absent-mindedly stuffing more and more of it into my mouth. Miraculously I haven't gained any more weight from it, yet, but I feel terrible all the time physically, emotionally... I know from past...

This may sound obnoxious, but here's my response: If he is having sex with somebody else it's not cheating. You've broken up. I obviously have no idea whether he's cheating and can easily see it going either way. Sex isn't going to feel different if he's been with somebody else. It would be...

It doesn't bother me all that much. People complain about some pretty petty stuff and they tend to put themselves into what I see as completely idiotic situations over and over... and over. This is all true. But they're only human and it's human to find something to complain about. I used to...

It was hot when I was out earlier. Now it's dark and storming. Probably considerably cooler.