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Maybe, The accident set off a bad reaction within himself. Maybe, He loves you and is scared him will loose you if you see him like this. Is he a war vet?

Would personality disorders be a forum?

Thank you for introducing yourself, Sammylam. It took a lot of courage and I am glad you did it. Each new person enriches the forum There have been times when I have been in a similar place as you are now. Healing seems to require that we learn who we became and don't really want to be that...

I too will need to keep up my therapy. Recently EMDR has worked well for me. It has been 20 years and I am getting better at managing in the world. I am still easily exhausted, agoraphobic and need time alone. I know the truth about my early life. I know some of the damage but I'm not 'done'...

This sounds like a flashback. I always feel unsettled for a couple of days after I have one. IHO that it is 'safer' for you to go over your family concerns. Intrusive thoughts can be managed for differently for each person. Some find that taking a walk and verbally noticing what you see. That...

From my perspective of what I experience of PTSD, It is a lot like the spoon demonstration. Most of the time I can cope with a few small things in a day. I have given myself the permission to nap when it is too hard to do any more. I'm dealling with a lot of grief and it is exhausting. It will...

Let's see....go slowly.....grow a new habit(tea)......testify on forum/let the truth and struggles take up their needful time and space here. renew your mind with lots of practice... I will add these to help let goodstuff in. Thanks

Nostalgic. We are driving up to my brother's today to attend a Memorial Service for our last uncle. Remembering him as a caring human being and a good man is good for the wounded heart

Happy to have finished 3 icons (I took several months to do this) They will be mailed out soon. I am happy too because I am carving icons in soapstone. I had been a stonecarver from age 16 to 45. Now, I get to work with stone in a smaller platform than my previous 250lbs boulders. I didn't lift...

Wow, What a clear expression of how to become grounded. This must have taken a lot of practice? Can you share the path to this grounded place you have with in you....Please

Holding all in prayer especially Lionheart and his sister.

I am sure I would have thrown my drink in his face. What a slimy guy, yuck. Your having to encounter a jerk like that even a drunk one was bad enough to really shake you up. Did your father support you? Anger is a good strong emotion. Good for you. Becoming numb or frozen wouldn't have had any...

Having been away visiting my husband's family in India, I am experiencing reverse culture shock.

I'm not so sure that emotional stress makes us easy prey for predators. I do think it certainly we can feel that way because our fear and grief is so present. Jess, I am assuming you are a woman. The best reality check for me when I feel like a child is to peek down my sweater and see boobs. I...

Yeeks, It sounds like you are playing" Whack a Mole" with your symptoms, Lionheart. I am amazed that you can find solace and grace in the midst of so many distressing symptoms. PTSD really does take a toll on us physically. Me too. Since you don't mind spiritual comments, here is one for today...

I can understand why you feel like that. My mother trying to kill me several times still hurts. It is the most basic level of trust that has been broken again and again. Without trust, love is hard to let one's self to love another. Your ignorance of true love is not a permanent condition. When...

Intrusive thoughts as you describe them are hard to deal with. We can change the thoughts by overriding them with affirmations. Recognizing them as the mean lies that they are. When I stopped allowing myself to call myself names, the whole thought thing began to change. Hm-m-m You have a point...

Dear Somuchpain, I hear you. Rejection, by people who are supposed to love you, creates a life long wound and a block to intimacy on many levels. Firstly, I want to say their behaviour is NOT your fault. It is not true. They lie. It is entirely their warped choice to behave that way. Secondly...

Ptsd is like a permanent brand on your Amygdala which works to protect you when it perceives that you are in some danger. Flashbacks, the memories coming back are started off by something around you called triggers. Having a flashback is not in your control. I have done a lot of therapy. One...

Hi, I've been on prazosin for 3 years at 3mg at bedtime. I haven't noticed any side effects. It works to keep nightmares away completely. The Drs say that it is not very useful for lowering blood pressure. I have different medcine for high Blood Pressure. Hope That helps.

Hmmmm.m.m.m Cheap loving gestures. Do you have snow? Stamp out two hearts entwined? Make an angel in the snow and tell her she is your angel. No snow? then make hearts out of twigs laid on the ground. Have wrapping paper, red? Cut out hearts and hide them all over the house, under her pillow...

Thanks for writing your experience with ECT. My mother was bipolar. She started getting ECT in the early 50s when she was 16. She got it whenever she was hospitalized/institutionalized. Every time she came home she was different. She was a violent manic. She did come back with swaths of time...

It is our 43rd anniversary today. I guess you can say we've been through it and are still together. It is the 22 anniversary of just being good friends. I'm sure that H didn't expect so many years of celebacy. (Sarky), Hooray for therapy.

Hi, I'm glad that some of the posts here have helped you. Finding a good therapist to sort all this pain out and for you to speak your fears and experiences out loud would be good as well.

:wideeyed: @roaminggnome thanks for the support. I needed to stop and rest looking at your words and letting them sink in:hug: