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Welcome. I hope you find all the help and support you need here.

@Fearless ...Your heart-felt pain comes through loud and clear. I don't know what to tell you, especially as one who is trying to look outward from inside my own shell. I do know that I have a lot of empathy for what you must be going through. If I had a crowd of people around me right now...

@Sighs ...I hope I find this site helpful as well. Thank you. I completely understand what you're saying. I too, am offended by comments such as Madonna's one was. It's hard enough to live like this, day in and day out. I suppose after a time, when folks here get a sense of who I am from my...

Thanks @BlueOrange ...I went to the Help Desk, since no Quote Me button appeared when I highlighted. Hopefully I'll get it sorted. Using PC, so no device issues for me. Thanks again.

@Simply Simon...yeah, I guess between my f*cked perspective atm, reading things I thought I saw, and my mood....it just came down to feeling as if I had to watch everything I say as a noob. I certainly don't intend to disregard 'how' I express myself since I'm usually polite and type...

Eep!...as a noob there's points in this thread that freaked me right out. (Not comfy with the quote thingy yet, or I'd use it to illustrate). I get why this site has the safe guards it does, and most I agree with. What I didn't know, was that I'd be regarded as a potential troll until I...

That's shocking news @MissCanada....shocking, yet not surprising unfortunately. I've read of a few cases in my area. Bravo for laying charges, since it will at least be a strike against him with the College of Physicians & Surgeons. Who knows? Perhaps you inspired that other woman to come...

Hi @PTSDbegone... Some folks just don't seem to be effected by many meds, perhaps you're one. There's the flip side, like my mom, who couldn't even tolerate tylenol....every drug she took had to be cut in half, and even then... I had high hopes for this drug too, but the longer sleep symptoms...

@Lizio...may I ask what is the Better Access site? I'm very sorry to hear of your back issues and the fine line you walk to afford proper therapy. You're so right. Voices need to be much much louder. It's such a dilemma though...on the one hand, we need good help...on the other; many of us have...

When I was working, I would have been able to afford good health care. PTSD is quite crippling, coupled with the fact that my health is such that I DO have to walk with a cane or use my walker when or if, I go out. I'm crippled both physically and mentally. So work is out of the question. I'm at...

@Lizio, I hope you're able to focus on your Master's and hopefully, enough people will speak out against the system as you have. Something's gotta give...fingers crossed. Me, I'm not coping well at all. In fact, things worsened yesterday when my GP informed me that there are no available...

No worries @sun seeker :) Between the PTSD and the limitations of communicating via the net, lol...so much can get construed at times. Perhaps you're right; it could depend on region...or perhaps if one lives in a larger city, more options are available. Mine, is a smaller city & like I said...

My apologies @sun seeker. It's just that your comments re: the help you're receiving 'seem' like the amount of available qualified help that I was able to receive back east. I sincerely hope you didn't think I was assuming. Sorry, I should have worded that better. Not to make excuses...

@Lizio...I feel your frustration. It's daunting enough just to deal with PTSD daily. But then have to fight the system for what should be the right of every person, to have qualified mental health care..for as long as it's needed....it's ludicrous (among other swear words I can think of). @sun...

Thanks @joeylittle. The sleep aspect sure is great. I've been trying to write down as much as I can remember from my flashbacks & dreams. Although it's difficult if I dissociate with the flashbacks. I'm told it could take up to a year before I see any counseling.psych. help, and these memories...

With mental health services severely lacking where I live, the GP's do most of the heavy lifting. My GP prescribed me Nabilone...a synthetic cannabanoid. I've read research papers that state it lessens the severity of nightmares and flashbacks. Often eliminating them altogether. I wonder if...

@NovemberStar, Thank you for sharing your thoughts and feelings. I too, know someone with cancer, and wondered the same things myself. I understand loneliness too, but from a different side of the coin. My well wishes for your healing journey.

Thank you everyone. Such a warm welcome and it's great to see some fellow Canucks :) Hi @reallydown..a special thank you goes your way. You were there in the chat room when I first came here :) Darkside

Hi All, Very thankful I stumbled upon this site. From the discussions here, I can easily tell how valuable it is. In the past, I've been able to manage occasional flare-ups, but for the past few months the flashbacks/dissociation and nightmares are a daily reality. Mental health services are...