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Hard to tell, indeed. On one hand, people are always smiling and polite. I must say. But we also lack reason these days more than ever. I think the internet has made us different. Not worse or better. Just different in the same way the written word made us different when it first came about. It...
I like to ask myself how much I know about the other people I am with. If nothing, then they need to know nothing about my situation. Chances are they DO have their own stuff and are not talking. I always end up telling more than I want because of that pull to be honest and "be myself". I AM...
Hi. For those who are following my car accident, well, I started to have trouble remembering faces and got lost all the time and headaches from hell and memory issues and all sorts of things. Finally saw Dr who said I have TBI. Neurocog testing next. I feel bad. I needed my brain. I am...
I am sure it will not cost too much! And the fact that you are OK and got to your baby? MOMMA KUDOS TO YOU!! If anyone on this world would for a second think they they would not have torn the sH*(&t out of that door to get tho their crying baby, well, I would like to know what kind of monster...
Lost. Your posts did not seem too graphic to me at all. I agree with Ragdoll. One person's trigger is another person's reason to keep fighting. You are one of the fighters I respect most on here because you are so honest and yet always reaching out to others. Even when you are in a bad mood...
Thank you for the replies! No, I am not seeing a T. I have one, but she is where I lived before the accident. She has checked in but I have not told her about any of this.
It will be long term because of the injuries to my face. When they do surgery, it will affect my speech. I wlil be able to...
I totally understand. Whenever I leave my house I am lying. At my T I just did not disclose a lot but then wrote her a letter she read IN SESSION. It was important she read it while I was there. We discussed it and it was over. No big deal to a good T.
She knows you feel vulnerable. She will...
Something odd has happened to me. If you have been following my threads, here is back story.
A LOT of early trauma and abuse, displacement, illnesses and disability. (i.e. my life has been hell) In Jan I had a serious car accident with lots of injuries, and some to the face. These resulted in...
This happens to me, too. I am angry at myself when it happens for letting someone else in. I am terribly vulnerable and always end up getting hurt while they dance off into the sunset with their lives.
Yes. I was ok till I had an accident in Jan. Since then? Hell. My parents have told me they cannot help me because now it is too much and they are old. I understand. I knew this would happen. So yes, I understand. I hope you find help here. I know it helps me to feel comfort .
Those words mean a lot. You are right when you say there is not shame in reducing your accomplisments to getting food! I have a hard time reducing toxic people because I am so desperate to not be alone right now. No one is hitting on me or anything but just being around people when I am in such...
For those who have been following my posts, you know on the 11th things got really bad and I almost checked out. Then I wandered around in a daze Tues and Wed. asking God for even one kind soul to help me.
He sent me St Augustine who is beseaching the violated women not to kill themselves...
I know you love him but you have to do what you have to for you and your kids. I have PTSD, not a care-er but it makes me cringe (more than cringe, it makes me hate myself) when I think what I do to the people who love me. He must know that he is doing it, too, and I feel compassion for you...
Very scary. It makes me less trustful of T's. I am sorry. It just does. Reporting does not solve a psychpath. It makes it worse. I was in DV and when it was reported (not by a T but it got on news and I am not even the one who got it on the news. I wanted it quiet!) well THEN all went to hell...
Totally! This is a good topic and one I am thinking about. Why do we do this?? I think I do it not to confuse her. If I am myself I confuse people and they run away. I don't want to confuse her so I try to be so out of the norm consistent which is not me.
OMG I hate that. I know she was trying to be nice, but when people say that to me it makes me sick to my stomach. When people say that to me I now say, "You're right. You wouldn't"
I wonder if we heal differently because of the PTSD ? The airbag injuires I have are stupidly "rare" which just pisses me off. But I notice that even after pap smears and blood tests ("easy stuff") I suffer a lot longer or have reactions.