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This must be a really stressfull time for you. I hope you and your other good neighbors can comfort one another. My heart goes out for you, that you are having so much difficulties in your one home (that is suppose to be a safe place). I hope they put him in jail for a long enough time, and the...

@SherriLynne. Welcome to this forum! I hope you get the support you need! I am also a new member and I like to read the posts out here. I find much comfort in many of them! I wish you much strenght on you're journey ahead. To me it sometimes feels like running a life-long marathon and i need...

@Mammo I've got the same problem regarding difficulties for feeling my feelings and discerning between those feelings. My T let me do a exercise, where i had to describe 5 objects in the room only with my 5 senses ( hearing, seeing touching, smelling, and another one (i can't remember)). It felt...

I'm living on my own at this moment. I would like to have an intimite relationship in the future, but i think i'm to much selfabsorbed in my struggles at this moment that i don't think i have a good startingpoint tot a relationship at this moment.

You trivialise the complexities of ptsd and complex ptsd. I don't like that. Again, there is a difference between doing nothing and feeling stuck at moments. There is a difference between attention seeking and reaching out for help, and getting your needs met. And there is also a huge...

I am a new member, and i don't have the impression that this forum promotes self-pity or doing nothing, or attention seeking. Instead it gives hope, validation, encouragment to overcome, so i don't see any point in your post!

I realise that i, (from reading all these posts), finally found a place (here on this forum), that helps me with my struggle!

@Chava i can relate to your post in the sense that staying in your little shell is safe and comforting. I do the same thing. I go to work, do the nessesary stuff and retreat into my home. But i crave human connection, i feel that i need it. It's the most important reason that i went into...

@brat17. I feel like living in this world is stressful for people without ptsd, how much more barriers do people with ptsd need to take. It's not alone daily stress we need to handle, but we have to manage our symptoms also!! I think that's why we have to be more gentle with ourselves!! NOT to...

@Suzetig I can totally relate to your story: I'am my own worst enemy, much of the time. Like you, I'm also working on it, but is indeed very difficult! Hugs for you.

Welcome Gadgie!! I wish you much strenght and love!

@Cool Cat. I would give anything to achieve that, but i don't know how to picture that. My therapist asked me after my first session: "how do you view yourself in the future, when this therapy is working out for you" I said: I hope i can handle my symptoms better, and move on with life. I would...

@Ocean5 you perfectly put into words how i feel!! Thank you for this!!!

@macbeth very good! You're standing up tot yourself, keep on goiing like that!!!

Hi pilgrim!! Welcome to this forum!! I'am just a member from saturday, but i did get a very warm welcome here!! There are some very nice and intelligent people out here. I find comfort in many posts! Good luck to you (my english is limited, my native language is dutch) hugs for you

@illusionist you hit the nail. No all failure of trust is malicious! We all have our strenghts and flaws! I must learn to tolerate that in other people too.

So much wisdom on this forum, i like this very much! @illusionist for me, loyalty is also most important, of they are loyal to me=ok. If not: i'm not wasting my time! In the beginning of meeting someone, i start by disclosing litlle things, i observe how they talk about other people and how...

@anonymous I can very much relate regarding the trust issue. It's why i avoided much social contact. My childhood home was very chaotic, no structure, lots of drama, no reliable parent, abuse, .... It's very hard to trust people if that basic trust has been shaken. Indeed I try it by babysteps...

@anthony Currently many attempt to control their Link Removed with avoidance, substance abuse, work-aholism, etc etc…any key distraction method to not deal with the past pain. The problem is, the symptoms are still coming back and back, and each time more often with more intensity. This is your...

@Nicolette Oh, my heart is melting, she is so CUTE!!!

@Chava. I can relate to what you are saying. I feel like my body is permenantly scre#d up!! That's what i hate most about my trauma. So difficult to relax always feeling tense. Sometimes frozen. It's why i think a body approach in therapy is nessesary. Also trouble with regulating emotions from...

@anonymous. Thanks for your replay! Indeed it is better not to ruminate regarding symptoms and why they are happening and sometimes there are no simple answers. I think i think to much about those things. I will go back to my homework: breathingexercises!

Is it possible to develop social anxiety after emotional abuse from a parent?? Why is it that (when we rational know it's not the same person) we still get triggered?. I'm asking this because i suffer from social phobia, and i asked myself time and time again: is it a direct effect from...

When you feel like you've been cursed or have been dealt a bad deck of cards in life!! Feeling like you are standing on the outside of life, looking in! when it seems like other people are having an easier time of fulfilling their goals and dreams!

Hi For me i found the diagnosis for complex trauma liberating in the sense that it validated my symptoms. I always tought that it was somehow my own fault (not enough effort, not enough patience, not enough generische,..) i know now that its not what's wrong with me but its what happened to me...