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I was so happy to be on my own and with my new beautiful family i didnt think i needed help..

Yes..and those children are older and now i have little ones again and its like wow i did a better job and was such a great mom then...i feel sorry for little ones now and wish i could give them more...gotta keep trying..

I was a mom and on my own..happier than i ever was in my whole life. I didnt know i needed to seek counseling for past trauma..i just thought i was fine..wich i appeeared to be...so my advice maybe would have been to get counseling...but then i wonder if those years as a young mom would not of...

I feel this way too..sorry and i wish i had advice for you but all i can say is i hope things get better for you

I feel the same..very hard but with work hopefully things will get better soon

About 6 months ago i had the WORST nightmare of my life. So real, so frightening. I woke up screaming. I was hoping that particular nightmare was a one time thing.. Last night i got the same one..its devestating and im wondering if its memories trying to push through... So i just fell asleep at...

Glara, i understand that everyone has problems...i just get these feelings and i dont know why or how to fix it. I was always able to function and make a life for myself. Now i cant even go to my own backyard.i feel so broken...im very early on this road so im sure it will get better...i do love...

Thanks so much Nam, i cant wait to have a little of my life back. Mostly just to be able to go to the store, take my kids to the park, be ok with some social interactions...

And to clarify..i dont mean people with ptsd doing well..i just mean people in general that have thier stuff together...but would never wish bad on them...its just somehow it just makes me feel worse about myself...and it is just pathetic..and i want more from life and better for my kids..

Sorry to hear..i hope you find something soon. Hang in there

Im not sure where to post this...just wondering what im feeling when i see people doing well. Successful, normal, pretty. Shiny happy people...it just like hits me hard..like wow just makes me feel like so broken and defective and hopeless. What is this im feeling? Part of my ptsd? Or something...

So sorry to hear..my thoughts are with you.

I was mad i didnt get support i wanted from my partner today...but i feel better now. Just wish we could somehow help each other out a little more...

No news is good news for me. Sometimes its just too much and sends me into panic

Im so glad you started this post. Im so afraid of going to the dentist and dr have to take a valium before i go and dress very warm because i get real cold and shake. pretty soon i need surgery so i enjoy reading all the responses. My biggest question is how do i relax my body? Im so tense i...

Im so sorry to hear. I also have ptsd from childhood trauma and i find it very hard to have any social interactions..i just stay home with my partner, kids and dogs. I hope you find some support here. im pretty new here too. Welcome and thanks for sharing.

Im so sorry...its so hard. I really feel your pain. I hope things get better soon. Its a long, hard road. Ive only just begun as well and i have kids and i miss my old self before all this...im looking for a new T to start trauma work and going to experiment with meds...hoping i dont end up in a...

I feel for you...i have been told the same about my life too. And i am dissapearing as i write this. Im trying to hold on. When i got diagnosed with ptsd my T asked me to write a list of early betrayals...wow that was eye opening. Then i wondered...why did all this happen to me? Was i bad? Did i...

Thanks so much...if i do go to bed early sometimes i wake up at 2 or 3 am and cant fall back asleep and just end up crying for a while...so sometimes i force myself to stay up longer in hopes i will sleep solid...thanks for the encouragement sweet girl

I feel Tired Weak Like i cant breath Tense Sorry Guilty Ugly Broken Resentful Ashamed Failure Scared Heart palputations Sweaty Paranoid Jumpy Trapped in myself...

I left home as a teen and became a mom to escape. It worked for a while. Then in my 30s another major trauma, followed by more a few years later and then my life stopped and ive been stuck in "hell whole" ever since...(my life since ptsd) im trying to get better..the first 2 years of symptoms i...

I meant getting through a day...then there is all the guilt for being sp tired and useless...and a waste of space...and im trapped....

Last night was typical...im the last one up..restless, tossing and turning...trying to watch tv to distract myself from thoughts and memories. Of course there is a major migraine to top things of. Floods of memories and i start crying for what was lost. I feel helpless, pathetic and im about to...

Thanks so much guys :) i wish i made a list of questions today...i didnt even know what to ask. It was an evaluation though so it was a little easier for since i was asked a lot of things...its harder for me with silence and having to start all my own topics...i got my second diagnosis of ptsd...

Hi Secret, im pretty new here. Im sorry you go through that...very hard, i know. I have been diagnosed with PTSD from early chilhood trauma. I am a parent and love my children very much. If i didnt have them i think i would have left this world by now. I wouldnt do that to them but i think about...