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smr: Good luck and thank you for clarifying. I also think it is nice that you really interviewed people and not just looking for some stories. Again, thank you for letting us know more. That made me feel more comfortable. :-)

I hope your friend is OK. But I always feel uncomfortable when people come on asking for our help, especially therapists because on the whole, therapists are very unwilling to hep those whose PTSD has rendered them unable to work and make enough money for either care or to buy insurance for...

(((((Lost))))))) When you said she was not supposed to die before you healed, that was a like knife to the heart! That summed it up! It is such a hard thing! When you are hurt at first you want that person to go ahead and lighten the earth because you think it will make you heal. Then they...

Wow! I am amazed that, in just a few hours, so many people feel like I do right now. It is sad, but made me feel like I was able to pick up some fragments to press back into my frame. They are new fragments. I hope we all make it through today and tomorrow and tomorrow........stay strong, my new...

Interesting post! Sometimes it is hard to do, but when other people encourage you to see good things in your life it helps. I am glad you posted this. I needed to hear it right now. There are many good things around. Am I thankful for the abuse? No. Am I thankful I was led to things that helped...

I struggled with this so much. I decided to just do it even if I still FEEL it. Just make the choice and it did help. But it is hard.

Wow, that is a tough one. I experienced that, too,, and funny thing? I was abused BY a minister! The other one who was helping me was only trying help, though. He was so nice to me. It was just that he wanted me to forgive, the act of forgiving, not the feeling. Just the act. It was for me, not...

I have. I truly love all the people who have tried to help me over the years. Kind souls. What I have found is that if a therapist is professional, it makes no difference other than if you seek out that because it is your belief system. Then it adds a depth to the experience because you can...

(((Twinkle)))) What a horrible "nurse." Hideous. Report her. Go up as far as possible to her supervisor, the board the whole darn authorizing organization. Once they let me out of the hospital suicidal because there was no shrink in the Er. They gave me a PAMPHLET to the local mental health...

Me, too.

Feeling quite sad today. I have had PTSD a long time from many things. Today I just feel so sad and empty and alone. I have stopped faking. I am publically aching because I cannot NOT do it anymore. I just hope to feel connected to someone out there. You guys know how it feels, like your soul...

Very scary for me too. I freak. I am glad others feel the same . This is not easy.

As I posted before I am recovering from a car wreck. I already had complex PSTD from a lot of abuse. Anyway, a lady was texting and hit me at 55mph and caused a lot of injuries. Right before impact, I thought of so many things. But the one thing that stuck with me was, "FINALLY!" because I...

I got this, too. I started to stay in the supermarket and study until it made people uncomfortable and had to leave. So I went to library and hung out a lot. But then it got worse to be around people and alone. In the end, I am here online. I am around people who cannot see me but are there and...

"When it hurts and you can't find healing, just look up and know you are loved."

I will only answer your question if you promise to do pro bono work when you get your degree. We are so used. We give info and then insurance cuts us off or refuses to treat psychological disorders. I am in that now and if not for my pro bono therapist, I would be in so much pain.

I was hit by someone who was texting. My leg, my foot, my lung, my eyes and side were hurt badly. Still in PT. The lung capacity is still low. I can only blow a 250 in peak flow still. However, one of the injuries may be disfiguring as time passes. It makes me wonder why I survived. I have...

These are just my opinions. I do not want to offend anyone because I have had a lot of VERY VERY BAD T's!! So now I am so picky, it is either these or no therapy. 1. Practices ONLY evidenced-based therapies. Evidence that is substantiated by SEVERAL studies. I have done EMDR with HORRIFIC...

I have not found help in therapy. The only thing that helped was DBT. Most mental health treatment is not even evidence based. Some is. CBT, DBT etc. This crap where they sit there and talk and ask us how we fee; never did a thing.

An egg timer is a great idea!!! It is true- the focus only goes back to the kitchen when I smell the smoke. OMG yesterday it was awful.

Oh my, yes. Almost got the dx for autism because of senses. I can smell people so much that family is astounded when I say, "Jean was here, eh?" or "That plummer you used 2 years ago came today, right?" Once I knew who had smoked in my car, what brand she smoked, and I could also assess that she...

In the last 3 months, i have destroyed three good pans. I mean so bad, the smoke in the house was bad for days. I have memory issues, but am memorizing a very long poem, so I am confused. I have even burnt tea. I put it on and then forget! When I leave the house, I unplug everything now to be...

I also deal with this. Or do not deal with it. In 2011, I lost the ability to sleep. It turns out I had a lot of arsenic in my body on top of the PTSD. At any rate, I have never gotten it back. I was rehab myself before they opened a 24 hr a day mine behind my home. Then it was another year...

Yes! Often I do this. I need quiet around me because it is so noisy in my head all the time. I cannot stop it.

Sad but true. I learned it is not like on TV, too. :(