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This is weird, my therapist has just brought this up therapy. I was a heavy skunk smoker throughout the end of my truama year, and then fruther into PTSD. I stopped for a while and recently became a heavy smoker again. I've now given up, though if I had a choice (i've lost my dealer) I would...

Brilliant point to raise. When I'm studying articles and research for my degree, I am constantly having to critically evaluate in order to test it out as something that truly measures what it purports to measure. Research studies are not to be taken as the Gospel unless critically looked...

Thank you for the clear post outlining everything Anthony... very much appreciated.

Additional comment... I just have something I'd like to add...I've thought about what I want as a member, but not about what the member being moderated may want. And so, the only thing I want to add is that I think there needs to be sensitivity towards this when it is done publicly, and maybe...

I vote yes but I think I agree with Evie's point of view. It also reminds me of what not to do to see the rules in action. And it also reassures me when you explain specifically that you are not hard to please, as long as people obide by rules and this is provided by example by going public...

You're not crazy at all, and you're certainly not alone... I'm the same. I have huge issues with relationships, and feel like a total alien to it. When I had relationships, they were just unbearably stressful for me. I am hoping that once I've dealt with my issues better that this is something...

oooh yeah bitch happened to me when I couldn't smoke. I went to Spain a few years back, when my mother still didn't know I smoked. It was just my mum, aunt and uncle and me so I couldnt' get away from them easily. I managed 2 cig breaks a day. Ooff, I wasn't happy. I remember screaming at my mum...

Good luck Veiled! My hat goes off to you... as I smoke, and have no intentions on trying to give up since I just don't want to! But I know I should and if I tried it would be so hard!! AS you said... if you don't keep trying, you definitely won't get there! So Go You!

Thank you, Nicolette.

There are certainly times where I feel my hypervigilance is justified. It sounds like this is where you are coming from? Vigilance is not a bad thing when appropriate. Hypervigilance, as the word suggests, is different. Being over-vigilant is not a good thing if it interferes with your life...

BEC!! SO glad to hear from you!! Glad that you & Matt are okay... missing you. Have been thinking of you a lot recently... I really hope the inability to access so many things on the forum mystery gets solved soon... Please take care of yourself. Lisa.

Hm. Hard question. I'm sorry, but I don't have the answer because nightmares for those with PTSD can be flashbacks. But nightmares in their very nature can also be just that... our worst nightmare. So to find the truth, I think you may need to investigate while awake. What I CAN identify with...

Well done!! I think a lot of us here can identify personally *how* hard it is to stand up for ourselves to a bully... somehow it's not the same as standing up to 'just someone' who may treat us badly. When it's a bully... it's so much harder. Mainly because their bully tactics work. But you...

Hey I'm glad you had a good birthday Nie!! Sounds lovely! Sorry we missed the actual day though!!

Thank you so much for all your help guys, I really appreciate it. I ended up speaking to a friend on the phone but that did not work. All I did was be a bitch because I was so edgy I couldn't take listening to conversation... my concentration wasn't on the conversatoin. So I just got...

Thanks guys. Sorry if this is all over the place. Im totally wired right now. But im going to try some of these suggestions. I'm not troubled by anything specific... just feel so scared. And then, because it also ****ing happens to be windy, it's not helping. I Mean, its not just a little bit...

Hypervigilance. What do you do? When you are TERRIFIED! I feel like jumping out of the window with nerves all over the place. What do you do when you're bricking it? How to calm down? I have music on loud. Doing several things at once to try to distract. I feel like Im on speed and on a...

MS... you're not a bad person. And your therapist said this. As for moving the lad away... little more than moving a lad away is not abusive if you mean you didn't shove him and just guided. It doesn't make you a bad teacher. If he was upset by it,then maybe he'd need to spoken to about it, but...

Well, it has been quite a while since I exercised so I don't know how it makes me feel! When I used to exercise, it could be obsessive and driven in terms of weight! But I can see what you mean in the interpretation of the adrenalin being one of fear. If it is something that has come back...

Wow. Thank you all. dlross... a 'ritualistic feel' is common in self-harm too. I had that too. I found security in that. You say it is a way of being 'intimate' with yourself, and I can both identify but also find that interesting... I'm not sure why at the moment, but something strikes me...

When I fidget, I fidget relentlessly. There are times when people tell me "God will you stay in one place!!". If I'm not shifting, tensing, wringing my hands, scratching my head or ear, tapping my foot, crossing/uncrossing legs, I'm twiddling my hair. Having just realised that for the last 3...

Kathy, I want to send you my thoughts. I can tell how hard this is hitting you. My thoughts are also with Evie and the rest of the family. I can't speak as somebody who knows anything about this, as I have nobody in my immediate family in the military. But I wanted to at least say that I can...

Congratulations! It was great chatting and hearing your funny stories! And then to see the pictures of them!

I am more open as a passenger... for the reasons marlene outlined I guess. Not as a driver, because im an awful driver and still learning... it would be dangerous if I did anything other than try not to kill someone.

I used to run away and walk the streets very late at night. But over the years I have wanted to run away.... forever like. pack up, new name, new identity, new everything.