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Hi angel2write, From your description it sounds a lot like the way I react in groups of people. For me, I'm pretty sure it is just the overwhelming amount of information. I am already on edge being around people, my flight/fight response is active and trying to discover threats in an...

Well, I can only do one or the other. . .I can't do both at the same time.

Hi gram21, I've been in a support group like the one your wife is going through as well as other situations where a small group of people are working together intensely for a certain amount of time. In those environments, emotions and attachments do have a tendency to form because of the...

Um. . .I don't smell funny?

arvomaki, I just wanted to comment on your post about needing to be with other people who've been through what you have been through. I was having the same urge about the same time I checked myself in to a crisis program which included lots of group sessions. Even though most of the...

Hi Monster1977, I just had a hearing a few weeks back. . .and I was the last one, too. Our bankruptcy is just getting finalized at this point, today actually, it will be a relief when this part is over.

Today, I hate every f***ing thing about it.

Welcome. If you haven't already started, take a look around the forum and I think you will find lots of techniques for coping and for improving your symptoms. This is a great group of people here.

Feeling like an absolute fraud at work. Like I'm just taking up space and not worthy of being here. Guilt and shame at fooling all these people into thinking I could do this. I hate these sorts of days.

Practice makes perfect. . . :whistling:

It takes me 3 days away from everyone, including my family to feel relaxed. . .or half a bottle of tequila (which is both cheaper and more efficient.)

It's very difficult. All you can do is the best you can. My kids love to wrestle with me. That sort of contact was a huge trigger for me. Over time, I was slowly able to desensitize myself and now, sometimes, I even initiate the wrestling. . .they just seem to love it so much. I guess...

I just want to reiterate ScaredOfLonely. We have a hospital with a partial inpatient crisis program. Attending it probably saved me from losing my job and family. It was an awesome program, primarily using CBT concepts and teaching coping skills that were actually useful. If you can, try to...

An old Richard Bach quote from 'Illusions". “Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published around the world -- even if what is published is not true.”

So, I am driving my 6-year-old to a vintage video game store (he likes old games that were around when I was a kid.) It's kind of one our father/son things to do. I'm driving down the street, mostly just paying attention to traffic and kind of lost in my head. Suddenly, from the back seat...

Staind lyric fragments from a couple of their songs: Epiphany Your words to me just a whisper Your faces so unclear I try to pay attention Your words just disappear I am nothing more than A little boy inside That cries out for attention Yet I always try to hide Cause I talk to you...

Even though my trauma was partially religion-based, I love how your t and pastor are working together. This seems like a very healthy collaboration and I'm happy it is working for you. I would love to see more people from the scientific realm and the spirituality realm cooperating, rather than...

Hi Bullying Survivor, Your post sounds very familiar to me. . .I was 43 when my journey started. I've found lots of support and understanding here and hope you find the same. . .and some of your questions should be answered over time. . .although it can be painful wait sometimes.

I did something like this after returning to work after checking myself into a crisis outpatient program for a few weeks. . .may have been a bit easier for me because I am management, but this is what worked pretty well for me. I started by mentioning some of the PTSD stereotypes out there and...

I got the rollercoaster blues. High anxiety and barely managing symptoms

This may be a new one. :) I'm grateful for my lawyer. He is awesome at what he does.

One thing that has helped me with bad anxiety has been to finish every thought in my head with the words, "for now." For example, "This is almost unbearable. . .for now." These seem to be very powerful words for me because they remind me that the way I am feeling and thinking will not last...

Not a movie, but a famous quote from the original Steven Speilberg. . .William Shakespeare: . . .Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; . . . Hamlet

My children have never had to experience abuse.