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There's such bravery in your story. I hope you are finding relief from sharing as you try to piece things together. No one deserves to suffer.

Hello I've been on here a few days now. It's been a welcoming place. I've wanted to start a diary on here but have resisted until now. Do I deserve to write one, others have had it worse than you, people will criticize it, no one wants to hear about you, you should be over this by now. All these...

I’m actively reprocessing having gone back to EMDR therapy after a gap of some 17 years. I’m lucky to have found a therapist who offered intensives and who I felt could accompany me through the deep terror and help me piece together the pre-verbal trauma. Going well so far. I agree that...

That loneliness is awful for sure. Knowing others who experience it doesn’t take it away, but somehow makes it less ‘lonely’ if that makes any sense.

Welcome. I’ve been here a short time and have found it a useful and welcoming place. People understand the struggles and inequity of the suffering. Friends and family can help and support to a point but for me it’s been a relief to find a community of fellow sufferers to bear witness and provide...

Keep on keeping on. To be proud of your achievements and rewarding job is amazing considering what you’ve been through. May your healthy parts continue to flourish and assist those parts of you in need. Lots of resources and connections on here and people who will understand and know where you...

Hello I have CPTSD. On one level competent and functioning, on another level crippled with terror and paralyzed by fear. I had primal psychotherapy to address early trauma and attachment issues. It wasn’t until EMDR caught on clinically in the UK that he was able to offer it. It was a game...

Welcome Hopefully you’ll find that It is nice to be among people who understand and who have experienced similar troubles. I remember reading how all PTSD symptoms and responses are ‘normal’ in the face ‘abnormal’ and overwhelming experiences placed upon it. Our physiology is overloaded...

It is tough going through all you are going through. And none of it your fault. I’ve only been on this site 24 hours but feel the relief of others out there who know exactly what I’m talking about. No one downplays how awful and a waste of time and life PTSD is in whatever form. A great...

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Thank you. I look forward to looking on the site more and seeing where I can contribute. Thanks for the welcome.

Thank you. I’m always struck by how those unconscious words I found came right from my core. And to feel less alone through therapy and EMDR and finding this site has been a welcome relief. It is technically and creatively a great poem too ☺️ I’ll share the remainder when I’m on my laptop...

Thank you. Yes, sorry we are all here too but glad this offers the opportunity to share and connect and see that progress is possible despite the sheer bad luck of anyone having had to endure.

Thank you. I’m not much of an online person so I don’t know how much I’ll be on here, but even dipping my toe into it I feel less alone and weird and know that this is pandemic as a species really. Wonderful resource.

Wonderful article. Wonderful site. I shall print this and read it a bit at a time. Currently in EMDR and reprocessing all my cognitive skewed notions that rise in stressful times

C-PTSD I was born in a cardboard box My eyes the colour of sin Then someone massaged my brain So no love could ever get in. (I wrote this aged 18 before I’d pieced everything together about my life) I was separated from my mother at birth and driven 25 miles to a big hospital for a blood...