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Ok..going for it. ;) Honestly I don’t know what to share. I know there is so much I could say..& even want to say..but I just don’t know how helpful a lot of it would be. Bear in mind that I am not a qualified counsellor, psychologist..or anything for that matter..regarding this field. And...

Hi guys..really appreciate all the participation & support..thank you. :hug: To Friday…hats off…& respect. :D I've just put some thoughts down, hoping there may be something helpful there for anyone who wants to read it, & it's ended up a bit lengthy. I was wondering how long can a post be...

Thanks Suzetig..maybe..maybe not. All I can do is share my experience. And I do not see the evidence of what you're talking about in my own life, regarding either previously broken bones in my body or symptoms of ptsd. If you're talking about the odd Panadol I take because of a change in...

Thanks for the input Anthony..i'm no academic..that's for sure. However, I have to disagree on the susceptibility though. I have been through a couple of significant events in the following years, that I remember really testing things for me. And there was one in particular where all of the...

Thanks guys appreciate the feedback. Florian..well that is true & it's also not true. I put the same question to the 2 therapists who, in the end, where pivotal to getting me over the line. I chased them up..it had been awhile..& I asked, "So if I no longer have ptsd, then why is the...

It was looking for the success stories that first brought me to this site. And although I didn't find any, I know it would've made a big difference for me. And now that I am one, I have been wondering if my sharing might be helpful to someone else? Love to hear your thoughts. :tup:

Hi @MandyLou. For my husband & I, forgetting about right & wrong or normal or should be’s helped us a great deal. You know, the old ‘you can be right or you can be happy’ kind of thing. For us, we decided to really only worry about the deal breakers in the beginning of the worst of my...

In my experience churches in general aren’t very good at dealing with hard. Let alone dealing with someone who is going through something as hard as PTSD, or any other mental health issue I’d imagine. In my opinion for a bunch of reasons you can blame them for & also for a bunch of reasons...

I used a combination of relaxation & exposure therapy techniques with mine. I only ever came across one technique where I was ever able to truly reach the state of relaxed – both mentally, physically & emotionally. I also realised that the real benefit of practicing relaxation was in the...

"Quality of care provided in the Home for the Dying in Kolkata Mother Teresa's Home for the Dying in Kolkata The quality of care offered to terminally ill patients in the Home for the Dying in Kolkata was the subject of discussion in the mid-1990s. Some British observers, on the basis of short...

I wonder if context can give some insight? Maybe if she was doing this in a western society, maybe this take would be more accurate. But we are talking about dirty, corrupt, third world India. I don’t know about her keeping them in squalor…compared to what? America? England? Australia? In...

Thanks @Chava..really helpful to hear how it is for you..& can relate a lot. Isn’t that the weirdest thing? I can remember over the years different therapists saying at one time or another, “But, And or simply, You survived.” I always thought that was such a strange thing to say, especially...

Ok..so…last night I come to the realisation that I don’t think I truly know that I’m alive. Of course I am actually alive I just don’t think I REALLY know it. I hope this makes sense to somebody?? It didn’t come out of the blue…you know, one of those ‘something is coming to the surface’...

ok..sorry bout that..still not very technologically savvy..but hope you can still make sense of it anyway :oops:

Thanks @shimmerz for your response & it was during writing mine, to you, that I seemed to have answered my own question. Thanks again for that opportunity. I've been so used to having blind spots that it never occurred to me that I could be far enough along in my recovery that things just...

I gotta be honest here..i just don't see what the problem is. Am I missing something?? And I don't understand the over protectiveness of a diagnosis. As far as I'm concerned it's none of my business what someone has or hasn't experienced. If someone is getting the help they need then I say...

Based on my limited experience & making a heck of a lot of assumptions about you & your situation, I might think about a couple of different approaches. If everyone there is more or less aware of your circumstances & given that they have been a patient/supportive employer, I might just call in...

So sorry to hear of your circumstances. For me it's not so much about being safe. I have no idea what that would look like anyway & not sure if truly safe even exists - safest maybe, but undeniably safe not so much. And I was never interested in making something up as at the end of the day I...

If it works, I'd run with it. Why not?? If it only adds & doesn't take from your life, who cares what it is. It may just feel embarrassing because you are aware that it probably wouldn't be a socially acceptable thing to do in public - generally speaking. Having said that though, & even...

Hi @shimmerz..if i had to write a Human Behavioural 101 manual, part of it might look something like this (but hopefully much shorter :oops:). I too would deem this to be a normal male response & very honest, even though probably a bit immature or not very evolved, depending on his age. In...

Absolutely I do..but how quickly can be another thing & it may also not be exactly what you think it would be either?? ;) Cheers :)

I just wanted to say that I actually liked @Aprooster74's post..actually I'm very grateful for the reminder. It reminded me that the relationship I have with myself is more important than any relationship I have with anyone else. I decide whether I am worthless or not..I don't leave decisions...

I hear you on this one. For me it’s about being seen. I think the cringe factor is worse when I’m happy &/or confident (or doing something I love & just simply enjoying myself), because it’s more authentic to who I really am & I don’t like to expose anything about myself to anyone – period. I...

Personally I believe that the confusion is between whether this is a PTSD issue at all or just a clash of personality types?? Not everything we feel is a symptom of our illness(s). It has been widely accepted for quite some time now that different learning styles not only exist, but that they...

Done & done ... ;)