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I honestly had the most awful Friday ever! I'm already behind with my work because I'm slow (thank you molasses brain) and I'm doing the work of someone else who had a planned surgery and now one of my bosses has decided we have to get up on the patient floors (I work for a hospital in the QM...

Jen, I think the idea would be to try and create some new and positive memories in a therapeutic environment - something to write over the old ones. It won't always be easy and your old memories are going to fight tooth and nail because they've settled in your brain and put down roots. Get out...

Gizmo, you have no idea how fabulous that sounds! And you might be onto something here. Maybe that's what we need to do. Visualization. It is known to work and it changes the perceptions of how the brain interprets things. They teach cancer patients to imagine a button in their minds to turn off...

LOL! You are probably right! The scary part is surviving the parking lot! :eek: Where I live it's nothing for someone to flip around in a Wal-Mart parking lot and go the wrong way down a one-way aisle because it's "easier". I've almost gotten beaned by a few idiots who drove through the parking...

Loveneverfails, I have been thinking half my life that I had a learning disability. My teachers said I had trouble learning and interpreting things. I thought I was just plain dumb. Now I've learned that PTSD brains process things differently. Even though my main PTSD symptoms only started in...

Hi! I would do it again in a heartbeat! I have a wonderful husband whom I would never would have had otherwise. I had my gastric bypass in 2005 in San Francisco at Pacific Laparoscopy. Google PacLap as it won't let me post any links yet as I'm too new here. They also run a yahoo group called...

Smush, I totally identify! I just wish I could turn my brain off. I still haven't found that darn "off" switch! It keeps on "talking to itself" even when I'm trying to sleep. Busy, busy, worry, worry - all the time! When you think about it, the PTSD brain never shuts down at all. My brain is so...

Hi! I've been meaning to post this for a while. I told my hubby I was going to put my brain on Ebay to see what I could get for it and maybe put a downpayment on a new one. He just laughed and probably thought I was feeling a bit more insane than usual. I was diagnosed with PTSD in late...

Hi, I had gastric bypass in 2005 and lost 152lbs. Message me if you want to talk. Take care G

Jen, If your therapist is making you uncomfortable in ANY way at all, you need to change therapists ASAP. You need to run not walk to another therapist. Now. This is your life and your future and therapy has a massive influence on how that can change things. Therapy has to be a place where you...

The only person besides a few close friends and my therapist who knows is my husband and he isn't sure how to deal with me most of the time.

Mine was normal. I get stressed (actually I'm a stress ball) and retain fluid at the drop of a hat and they thought it was because my levels might be elevated. Hah! Totally normal.

This woman quite literally saved my life. I was at the end of my rope when I met her. I was suicidal and had a plan. I had been through 3-4 counselors prior to meeting her. She pulled me back from the edge and has explained and helped me understand more about PTSD than I ever knew possible. She...

I used to be a christian and I used to believe in a loving god, but after over a decade of praying and crying and suffering, I came to the conclusion last year that if there is anything out there, it doesn't give a crap about me. I am from africa and experienced my first civil war at age 4. I...

Thank you all. I really appreciate you replying. It is nice to know I am not alone.

Thank you. I hope so too.

This is the first time I have posted here. I am hoping talking about this may help. I have C-PTSD and Bipolar II Disorder. I now live in California and am an American citizen but was born in Zimbabwe in 1976 and at the age of 4 experienced my first civil war. Our houses there are brick so we...