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I created this post in response to a discussion I started having with @Mach123, but it's about work-from-home resources if anyone is interested or wants to discuss further. I thought I would put this here since I am always mucking up threads with long, off-topic posts. I finished a long stint...

Hello @NotTooLate and welcome. I've been in recovery for a long time and it really strikes me how often trauma survivors turn to blame themselves for their own suffering -- as if human beings are inherently good and right or bad and wrong. It's as if we believe that we ought to ascend all...

Hello @Ruby_ and welcome. Unfortunately, I believe you can only edit posts within 30 minutes of creating them. There will be an edit button at the bottom of the post while you are still able to edit. I am glad that you are reaching out. I think the typical experience is that the beginning of...

I am so glad I knew not to join the military. I would be dead, no doubt. So, I came into the world with an extremely severe bilateral cleft lip and palate. I went into surgery in my first 24 hours to close off the hole in the roof of my mouth to prevent brain infection. My mother was fine...

Thanks @Mach123. I don't read a lot here, either. I write a lot but don't read much and it makes me feel pretty self-centered, but it is what it is. I make regular effort to read more. I'm pretty middle of the road, politically. I considered myself a libertarian at heart until recently with...

Your description of your home-base appears to have a lot of similarities to rural central Oregon, where I lived for far too many years of my adult life. It's agricultural, but the simplicity sounds familiar. We recently spent about a year-and-a-half in Portland, Oregon. We lived in the Cultural...

Welcome! It's great that you are taking your therapist's suggestion. It's not always easy to do that. There are lots of stories and people to talk to here. I am sorry that you are having a hard time. I hope that being here becomes beneficial for you. It is very helpful for me.

Hello and welcome. I think it's pretty normal to go numb/dissociate when trying to function after one or several traumas, especially very serious traumas like witnessing a suicide. And grief can also cause that response. I've had that happen and remember the fear that came with it. It's hard to...

Many years ago, I inherited a little dog during a period of time when my depression and pain were both pretty high. He was pretty demanding, so I started taking him for walks, car rides, and more walks. He would bark his little dog head off if I didn't, so it was great motivation. I am sorry...

Geez, and I thought that living with a schizophrenia/schizoaffective diagnosis for 15 years sucked. I am sorry you went through that. I cannot imagine how hard it must have been to do that for as long as you did. I felt pretty dehumanized to have the traumatic facts of my existence disregarded...

It's good to be functional again.

I guess I reached my PT goals all of a sudden 🥳 Yesterday, I went on a 3-mile hike without an increase in symptoms, and today, I held a plank for 60 seconds.

At nearly 41, I have been sober for all but 9 months of my legal drinking-age life and because of that, I met a LOT of people in 12-Step meetings. These people were mostly what my family would label "bad people" with histories worse than my own, regrets and scars deeper than mine, and often...

I am sorry. This sounds scary/confusing. Are you working with a therapist?

I haven't been able to make an appointment with the neurologist, yet. 😖

As usual, I am grateful for my husband. This time, I am extra grateful that he caught me when I was losing my footing on the face of a huge rock, yesterday. I am also grateful for the sunshine, our Christmas ornaments, and our future plans. I am further grateful that our Christmas ornaments...

I'm wordy because I analyze things from multiple angles and it irritates people and I know it. I try to simplify and cut down on the words, but I'm bad at it. It takes me so long to shorten and simplify my thoughts that most of the time, I'll usually choose to keep it to myself rather than...

I hope you won't be offended by an observation that you have probably already made. I suspect that part of why you are being attacked is because your writing level and style upset people. In an online environment, your writing stands out in a major way. It is easy to assume that you are brighter...

That is a seriously cute dog.

I've been dancing, again - yesterday for 30 minutes, and today for a little over an hour. I've also thrown in some sped up PT exercises in the middle of it.

I think you must have entered my world. Or maybe this is life after 40? I don't know. For me, physical fatigue and/or pain makes my whole world suck. Maybe you should stretch, take a hot bath or shower, or take something for pain if you are having any? As always, there is the exercise option...

Public utilities should be better organized. The outside of my thigh is numb. My home should be better organized. I wonder if there really are a lot of jobs in teaching English as a second language. Are there more than two ingredients in guacamole?

I am glad to hear that. It is also great that you called and she called back so quickly. That's so much better than worrying about all of this. I am sorry about your rough morning but it sounds like you got this. 🐳

Yes. Unfortunately, what you have described here is probably pretty normal in the beginning. At least that is what I went through and what I have heard about often. Though, you may also be taking the wrong meds which is pretty common in the early days, too. I found that I did better on anxiety...

I'm just getting back into therapy this week after having very little therapy over the last 18 months, but have gone to therapy as frequently as weekly and as infrequently as monthly. I remember being nervous about having less therapy when cutting back, but it was fine. I suspect that if she...