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@Hashi, I studied art a little in school too and it's hard to come to terms with knowing that what you do inside one session is not going to be up to the standard you want! What if you kept working on the same thing throughout your sessions? Then you could finish it and it'd be a little...

Samantha, I definitely feel your pain!! Over the last year my brain would have had me staring at a blank wall for 3 hours rather than doing an assignment or piece of homework that should have taken 30 minutes. I'm a chemistry/science student too so I get how hard it is to keep up when you can't...

I feel awkward about crayons at first but once my therapist told me to draw a person, and then draw my anger on top of the person. Had no idea what I was doing so I just drew angry scribbles everywhere. She looked at it afterwards and pointed out that I'd drawn all my anger inside my person and...

Aw thankyou everybody. It's great to get support when you're really struggling but having people who understand completely to celebrate the successes with is therapeutic in and of itself!! Thankyou for being so encouraging!!!

I posted a little while ago about how I was struggling to let go of my ex (not my abuser, but the guy who SAVED me from my abuser) after he cheated on me with 5 different people. I felt like I needed him to be happy because the only happiness I've known for about 5 years has been while he's been...

It's true that he's hurting and struggling, but this is not okay and cannot be excused by PTSD. Like Sweetpea76 said, PTSD influences the way we act but that doesn't mean we're not responsible or accountable for our actions. My personal trauma came from being too supportive of a man who, in...

Me: *explains how a flashback feels, and how you just can't breathe during them sometimes* Non-sufferer friend: "yeah, I know what you mean" Me: "...........you know what a trauma flashback feels like?" Non-sufferer friend: *defensively* "hey, I DO have empathy you know..." Yes. Of course...

I do this EXACT thing. I blocked my abuser for a year only to realise later that the messages were all still there. And it's only ever tempting to read them when I'm already in a situation where if I sink any lower, I'm not coming out of it for a while. I keep my facebook messages as "evidence"...

Me neither until just now. Well, I've learnt something today!

That's encouraging! Hashi, thanks for telling me how you've been working through it... I haven't really started the traumatic stuff with my therapist yet, she was more focussed on helping me survive getting through my uni course first. I'll definitely look into those techniques though they sound...

I have a friend studying psychology at uni who has decided that he counts as a "professional psychologist" despite not having a qualification or any experience yet. I was having a massive panic attack while driving with him in the car once, his only response was "you should relax. Maybe take a...

Oh man I just found this thread and I love it. My personal favourites: "Don't worry you'll bounce back" yes, because bouncing back usually takes years at a time. "Isn't PTSD just for war veterans/Vietnam war vets?" well yes they get it and no I'm not going to claim to have it as hard as them...

I've been dealing with panic attacks and flashbacks which threatened to basically paralyse me in life since April last year, after escaping my traumatic situation in April the previous year. Things like songs, being intimate with other people, revisiting certain places set me off and have...

Jesse, I just looked up that book and it sounds very helpful! I definitely need better boundaries and from the sound of it it's quite relevant. Thank you! This whole thread has really encouraged me... I'm going to go try some new things and hopefully help release myself from this a little bit.

Hi guys... this needs a bit of context so I'll try to not waffle on for too long! I'm suffering post traumatic stress because of an extremely abusive past relationship (sexual, physical, emotional). At the start the guy was 20 and I was 17, the relationship lasted for 2 years. I was made to...

Hmm okay. I suppose then the more important thing is finding the right group of friends who accept you and love you the way you are? Rather than trying to fit into some mould of what you should be. Thanks!!

Thanks so much guys! I feel a bit better knowing that it's not just me. Secret, it was a phase for you? I hope it's that for me. I really struggle to hold my tongue sometimes and when I don't I get down about it later thinking that I've driven away a new friend! It's just a challenge to figure...

So I'm experiencing a lot of problems in trusting people close to me, even the oldest friends I have. I think they secretly don't want to be around me and they only put up with me because they feel bad for me. I know in my head that that's absolutely not true, but that doesn't stop me feeling...