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I'm grateful for breakfast foods and hot tea and then more food. I'm off to make pizza now for lunch, even though I woke up late today and only ate breakfast a little while ago! :hungry: I'm grateful for my family, my friends, the roof over my head, my pets and my life. I'm very lucky. :joyful:

Very good advice. :) Suffered from more nightmares and flashbacks last night... but this time around I took more time to comfort my inner children and try to have more compassion for myself. As for yelling at my husband... he says I have a really warped sense of what's happening. People are...

What are my goals for the day? :cautious: This is ridiculous, but here they are... To leave my bedroom. :unsure: To go outside. :meh: To go to the movies. :confused: To contradict all my crazy, irrational, cPTSD thinking. All day. I won't let PTSD win! :mad: This is so FRUSTRATING...

What am I grateful for today? :cautious: I'm grateful for my husband. He puts up with so much. :inlove: I'm grateful for having plenty of food :hungry:, blankets, clothes, a warm house, a safe roof over my head. I'm grateful that my PMS is over. But that "time of the month" totally sucks...

What am I feeling today? :cautious: Kinda tired... physically, emotionally, mentally. I might be pushing a tiny bit too hard with exercise. I took a day off, I'm going to a movie later today instead. Emotionally, I'm just sick of dealing with what I KNOW is irrational thinking... but look...

LOL! @Definitely..maybe... you mentioned your love for Grey's Anatomy before. :) And I mean, as far as managing my PTSD and stuff, I find that exercising, music and then great TV are the top three things to improve my mental health, LOL! (I'm kidding... kinda.) So where is Grey's Anatomy...

Oh, yeah, that totally counts! Totally off topic - When is Grey's Anatomy coming back? This long break is killing me. Plus, my stupid DVR decided to delete the last couple episodes I had recorded and saved. I need my weekly Grey's Anatomy... it's critical for my mental health, LOL! :laugh:

Thanks for your kind words. Very much appreciated. Y'know what makes me feel so much better... that I can come here and share with people who truly understand. I don't have too worry so much about explaining to people who don't get PTSD... you guys get it, you guys have been there, too...

Well, I walked and jogged three miles at the track today. :joyful: I finished up around 1:00pm, it took me about an hour (please don't do the math... I'm so slow). Then I came home and did a bunch of things around the house, running up and down the stairs some (I could do more... but I don't...

I disappeared from the forum for awhile, too, and I felt so bad about it. :O_o: But now I just remind myself these things happen, depressive funks happen, and I can just come back when I feel better and start back up right where I left off. Everyone here understands. Lots of...

My goals are to just keep doing what I'm doing. Take care of myself. Spoil myself. Be understanding towards myself. Keep doing things like getting out of the house and getting exercise daily, even when it's really hard, even if for only 5 minutes. Take breaks. Sit and meditate or listen to...

We're grateful for you, too, @Britt.f7. I'm grateful my daughter K is doing so well. For that matter, I'm happy and grateful all my kids are doing so well. I'm grateful that I'm safe now. All the abuse is in the past. I'm grateful for my incredibly patient husband. He doesn't always know...

What I am feeling? :cautious: Okay, well, there's always something that ends the good days. Last night, I was feeling out of sorts but managed to fall asleep around 1:00am. Then around 3:30am I woke up... and I guess I had a nightmare, followed by some sort of horrible flashback when I woke...

Content. :joyful: Worried that these good days are about to end, and I'm gonna head down towards the pit of despair again. I mean, that's how it always goes. I desperately want to break the cycle, or at least try to make it less severe, and I'm doing everything I can. But I hate the...

I'm grateful for Valentine's Day chocolates in heart shaped boxes, yum! :inlove: I'm grateful for my husband, he's very calm and understanding. :cool: I'm grateful for my adorable children. My son spent most of the day talking in a ridiculous Arnold Schwarzenegger accent, it was HILARIOUS...

Doing well on my goals... I'm just going to stick with the ones I mentioned last time. I did really well today just relaxing and recharging. I had a little tiny meltdown late morning... but I blame that on PMS. I hate PMS! Like I don't have enough to worry about with PTSD... here comes PMS...

Thanks so much for saying so! I really can't get enough of people saying nice, encouraging things to me. :joyful: Yeah... I don't stretch enough either... I really need to be better about it, especially now that I've hit 40. I think that's why I tried to make it all goofy and fun with Led...

Updates... I'm still doing okay at not pushing too hard... but I'm really toeing that line, going right to the edge. I need to just calm down a little bit more. I went to the gym on Friday and on Saturday, I'm so proud of myself! Exercise really helps me to stay calm. I'm deliberately...

Hey @Britt.f7, you also matter so much to me. You're here everyday updating these threads and I look forward to seeing your posts. They egg me on to do better, so I can come here and post how I'm doing, too. I smile when I see your latest update. You've really, really helped me, just by...

LOL! I feel the same way... I'm so grateful for my house and all my things around me. I'm like Maureen O'Hara in "The Quiet Man" (a movie I gotta find so we can watch it, like we do almost every year for St. Patrick's Day... along with Darby O'Gill and The Little People... which stars Sean...

I'm fretting about spring and summer, too. I'm allergic to the sun... I get migraines and I sunburn so easily... I use SPF 80, but then if I leave it on my skin for too long, I get a rash, plus I get heat stroke and heat rash way too easily... I am not well adapted for sunny climes! :alien...

Thanks @greenleaf, I really appreciate your message! Y'know, it's silly, but the gym I go to has all these windows that look onto snow covered fields... when it's sunny outside, it's sunny inside the gym, too... so y'know, I did do something like you said... I had on yoga pants, but a bigger...

I wanna update this thread... but I'm just heading off to the track to walk and maybe jog. Yesterday went great, and I'm back again at the gym this morning. More later! :joyful:

I was having a lot of knee problems last year, when we moved from a ranch (a house with all one floor) to a three story townhouse. It was so aggravating. I did some internet research, and read that doing wall sits, lunges and this exercise where you stand with your feet even with your...

Updates... I did manage, for the most part, to relax yesterday. That was good. As a Mom, there are always things to do, but there was a long patch during the day when I put my feet up and didn't do too much. Good job! :tup: I also managed to eat lunch, finally, around 3:45pm, LOL! I don't...