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Thanks KP. What a nicely thought out list.

I'm glad there is a new book posted. I've been reading Haveli by Rama Mehta. I have often wondered what life was like in preindepence India. A Haveli is a home with a series of courtyards surrounded by Verandas. Hindu royal or near royal families practiced Purdah, the practice of keeping women...

Yikes, where is the poll????

It seems paradigm shifting takes a lot of energy. Lots of naps help. Since this a subconscious processing, sleep is logical. Hopeful!!! Oh, My. I never thought I'd ever feel that way again. We Shall overcome. We shall overcome. We shall overcome some day. Oh, deep in my heart I do believe that...

My Hope What a blessing. The forum is filled with people who can encourage you and stand by you. I agree with what Myhope has written. You have inner resources that may not have had a reason to come forward until now. They will save you, and support you. Therapy can teach you ways to handle...

Still reeling from the paradigm shift of being subconsiously "having a great will to live" Not a survivor, which holds the view that children who didn't survive was my fault. I am so grateful to Survivor2Thriver for giving me that new phrase and outlook. Tired but OK, on the way to Just fine...

Thanks, Still pondering..Saw my T for EMDR thursday and we worked with your theme and one senario where surviving has always meant at the cost of other children' lives in the same senario. Survivor guilt and false guilt have kept me frozen. But the freedom inherant in "a great will to live" is...

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing. There is strength to keep going on this hard healing way.

Yes, LokiBell. You are right. Studies have found that when the victim is treated with understanding and compassion, thier likelyhood of developing serious PTSD is lower than those of us who are not supported. I'm sorry that you had such a terrible and terrorizing experience that night. You Are...

Welcome to the forum, April Showers. This is a good place to come for support and ideas. PTSD can make people react strongly to triggers. He may not know his triggers nor most likely do you. Is he getting therapy for PTSD now? If not, that would be something important for him to do in order...

I think you are right. 'A great will to live' are words I can easily accept. They don't carry any hint that I was mean and selfish because I lived and others didn't - false guilt and survivor guilt. I can't be even moderately happy in the here and now if I am a survivor ( I hope my point of view...

Had a good EMDR session Yesterday and was exhausted by the time I got home. Huge amount of material tp process. Still feel weighed down. Understand why this incident is so strong........Trying to work some today. It does my soul good to work on icons.

Thank You so much. I have had a lot of false but powerful guilt about surviving when other children around me died. But if survival is non voluntary, I have had a recent experience of this. When in a hosptial, I was deeply sedated because cleaning nerve tissue off bones hurts a lot When the long...

Overwhelmed Sad Easily tired Grateful for the forum

Dear MD, That free fall and tumbling feeling are scarry. After a session sometimes, I have had to sit out my tears in the ladies room before I can feel somewhat grounded again. I do think that tears comes along with PTSD. Many of us have so many things to grieve about. Sometimes, I cry over...

Welcome, welcome, welcome! I happy that you found the forum. I have been here a long time. There is good support and companionship ready to be there for you as you post around in various threads and forums.

Hi Doti, I am so happy that you are able to come forward now. There is a lot of information and solace here. We all have PTSD but for different reasons. It's a pretty good bet that some one or many of us have a lot in common with you. Welcome

Grounding Exercise For Dissociating Discussion in 'Symptoms & Other Disorders' started by anthony, Dec 23, 2009. To see this technique for grounding by Anthony, the wise, just click on the blue letters. Anthony is the founder of this forum. Even though he wrote this in 2009, it is very much...

Congratulations! You have made a very good start. I think, might be in error, that there is a thread on grounding on the forum.

Yes, I can go along managing most of my symptoms. At other times, depending on how much stress I have , my symptoms get really bad- flashbacks, hypervigilance, periferal vision making me turn my head only to find ther is nothing there, anxiety, cold sweats... I hear you. That has happened for...

Congratulations on your 6 months sober. That is a major victory! My mother was bi-polar, manic/depressive and violent. When she was taken away, I thought she had died. No one ever spoke her name. The house felt funerial. I didn't hear her laughter any more. I grieved her, even if she wasn't...

Congratulations on your 6 months sober. That is a major victory! Good for you. :tup:

My mom, when she found out that my uncle was abusing me, never asked what he did to me. She didn't want to know the details. It would have been hard for me to tell her, somehow it hurt more that she didn't want to know. How deeply your mother must have hurt when she was holding up denial. You...

Hang in there. Your Mental Health office will be opening soon. This forum is exactly the right place to come for support. Do you have a trauma diary set up. It helps me keep track of where I have been and allows me to spot a trend I wasn't aware of.

There was a study in Great Britian last year using PET scans. They showed videos to a group of people with PTSD and people without PTSD. A few days later, the people were shown clips from the videos. Those with PTSD showed the amydigala light up instantly. It took 45 to 60 seconds for their...