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I read constantly to avoid thinking, every time there is quiet or I am moving somewhere thoughts appear, I have started listening to podcasts while walking as music doesn't really do it. I even have to distract myself on the toilet... I see a therapist, but really I have only properly started...

Sadly avoidance has been pretty much impossible for me. I guess I avoid the people who did things to me, avoid the church one of the people attended, blocked one person on Facebook. But I had to walk past the building where I was raped, every day for over a year as it was on the way to work (an...

That really is a shit day (/days) you have described there. I agree with @Flip flop and @LoveMyNavyChief! if you haven't see a therapist recently it would most likely be worth it, just knowing that its not all in your head and you can tell someone is a good thing. Other than that are you on...

Started making some kind of real progress (well information providing anyway) with my therapist, I've only been seeing her for nearly a year now - xD. But progress is progress!

- Anxious - Anxious - Anxious Not sure why either, which is really frustrating.

Very true, sometimes you just need to stick it out and work through the emotions. Its not easy though...

All but: War/ combat and Natural disaster Others: Neglect and I am sure there are others. Interesting, not sure I realised quite how much I had covered.. oh fun times.

I was raped by a guy from church when I was 16. That and my parents abused me using religion as an excuse. Ironically I am still religious however I don't share the same beliefs as them.

I actually talk to my family daily now I have moved out. Once I was out of my parents domain and didn't live under their roof our relationship improved dramatically. Even before then in fact. I still find them hard and exhausting at times, but I didn't want to hate them for the rest of my life...

Totally get you, I had therapy today and I have to do a similar thing, though recently I keep turning to alcohol afterwards which is not such a good plan. It may be worth discussing with him/her how to deal with once you have got out of the session? Maybe you can make sure before the end you...

I totally get you, I now freak whenever I see bald or ginger men, which is quite inconvenient. My worst time was when it was my boss and I had to work with him every day. I can honest to god say I have never been as close to killing someone as I was to killing him. Its kind of scary you can...

I have started having odd flashbacks of things I have 'forgotten', and this hasn't really happened to me before. Kinda freaking me out... lol My childhood is kind of blurry, but I doubt that is going to change, it was just the norm when I was younger and I doubt they are going to return. But...

I find I always tailor what I am saying to who I am speaking with. If I feel they will not understand I leave large chunks out, and tell really incomplete stories. Though thats once I have started telling anyone anything. Problem is I do it with therapists as well which isn't helpful, its a real...

You know you have C-PTSD when: - You can't separate one trauma from another - You can fill most of the years on a timeline with something - You start forgetting 'less traumatic' traumas to replace them with new 'more traumatic' traumas and then they start returning as flash backs (yay, my life)

I have never taken any meds to deal with it. To be honest I am scared of using them, I already have issues with dissociation I don't need that to get any worse than it already is. Also once I went to the doctors when I was younger and he said to me theres nothing meds will do, the stuff is...

Being a teenager was hell for me as you start questioning whats right and whats wrong, and slowly it crept up on me that what my parents were doing was wrong. I spent most of my time figuring out how to stay out of the house, while balancing my sister who refused to leave the house and was very...

I have IBS and Migraines to go with all the other lovely symptoms. Thankfully so far I have worked out my body won't give me both at once (thank god!). Its not fun though, always seems to me as though as soon as my mind starts feeling okay my body f*cks me over...

Disassociation for me has always been kinda like an out of body experience. I can 'see' myself doing things and I know I am speaking, however my mind is somewhere completely different. Sometimes its a flash back, other times I sit there just moving my hand wondering if it is still connected...

Hey Everyone, I am a CPTSD sufferer with anxiety, migraines etc. I am not on any medication because I am stubborn and always run away before they give it to me. Would be nice to connect with other people with similar issues, I was abused as a child and then sexually abused multiple times later...

Feeling rather pathetic and confused. Sorry for my poor boyfriend who can sense I am rather aloft and miles away. Glad hes putting up with it though, I am not sure how to break it. Just got in from work and reached for a bottle of wine... so all together not good... -_-

Always different nightmares, rarely the same unless they are multiple in the same night where I get slightly different action replays or they just carry on. I have died in my nightmares, had my head cut off and stayed asleep. Watched over people die, be repeatedly abused, and ended up crawling...

Yesterday literally the world looked like paper cut outs, I kept trying to focus but everything was 2D and I couldn't focus on anything. It was part migrane, and part just so dissociated. No idea what to do with myself, I feel like I am in a bubble. My boyfriends pretty confused, I mean he is...

Um... its been mixed. Feeling kind of sick now, but otherwise today was good :) Work was a tad stressful, most likely didn't need that haha. But kinda okay. :P

I am feeling: Stressed, on edge and anxious. Also kind of: determined and ... determined. Very determined ahahah. IT SHALL NOT WIN! :P

Hey, nice to meet you all :) Never sure what to say in these things, on one hand I am like: 'I SHOULD BE HERE LOOK ALL THIS HORRIBLE STUFF HAPPENED', and on the other hand I just wanna give everyone hugs and inform them that they are strong enough, no matter what does and has happened. I have...