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Your work is amazing @Ironlady! I can see why someone who cares about art would take notice. You are valuable, and you always have been. Go you!

Wow, yes, yes, and yes! Sorry the day was so craptastic, but I know how it feels when you just need to get it out in the open.

If you are having a reaction to an antidepressant they will often pile on other pills to negate its affects, typically some kind of mood stabalizer and/or an atypical antipsychotics (like Abilify and its successor). Everyone reacts differently to these meds, and some meds will work for some...

My P-doc has always been very reticent to prescribe benzos. But my BF's psychiatrist prescribes them for everyday use. Overall, I think if you can cut them down, or out, that is for the best in the long term. On the other hand it's just good to know you have something that will help in your back...

The med option can be a slippery slope, and if your problems are trauma based they seem to be used most often as a way to enable you to start therapy rather than a way to treat the cause. My GP prescribed Prozac to me when I went through an awful depression, and that ended up being disasterous...

Yikes, what an ordeal! Bravo for putting it up with it all, and letting your p-doc know how their behavior impacted you; I would have probably slinked off into the corner, and either suffered through it or bale to a new doc. It takes a lot of courage to stick up for yourself, so, go you!

I take melatonin, and I just started prozasin, which I wouldn't have believed it possible to be such a miracle drug until I took it and got the first rest that I think I've had my entire life. I was worried about the prozasin interrupting dealing with trauma, but at this point, I don't know how...

@hip35793 Welcome! I'm sure you will find a lot of support here. I had a totally different life at school too, and because of good grades and academic success no one believed me when I tried to tell them what was going on at home, because children with those experiances typically didn't thrive...

Don't feel bad; it's not just you. That job would be a nightmare for most people with PTSD. I have a job for which I answer phones and if I am on more than 4 hours I go bonkers. Before PTSD kicked into high gear I was able to work ten hours straight at my full time call center job, and I went...

It's really hard to keep going when you've seen how dark life can be, so I won't be a tool and give you platitudes about life getting better. I don't have any good advice, so I will say, all you can do is try. One step at a time.

I think it's a scary place to go, when you let one of your inner children speak. I think of the process as being similar to trying to escape a chinese finger trap. The harder you try to pull the tighter it holds you, and it's not until you let go that you can free yourself. My opinion only...

I have often been described as "spacey" and a daydreamer. It makes it sound more sweet and fluffy than the actual experience. I try to pay attention, but most of the time, I'm still somewhere else. It's really hard to find other people who haven't experienced like symptoms who "get" it.

I feel split too, and sometimes I wonder what I would be without trauma shaping my life. I look at pictures of myself as a child, and as you watch the age progression, the "light" in my eyes gets dimmer and dimmer. The last time I smiled was a long time ago. I like to believe there is hope, and...

@lostforgottensoul - My first art experience (other than drawing in middle school) was painting in oils. Of all the mediums I find acrylics the most forgiving, because even if what you've done looks like monkey barf, it can be easily painted over. I suppose the same can be done with oils by...

@PrayersPlz - You are going through a situation which is going to evoke a lot of emotion. Even as a lurker the board has been a benefit, so perhaps you can glean something useful from it even if you are no longer active. Take care!

Welcome to the group! PTSD can be such an unpreictable beast. It's very helpful to be with people who understand I think.

Welcome @lostforgottensoul. I joined recently, but so far this group has been great. Your story really resonated with me. I am also a visual artist as well as a fiction writer, and, ironically, I only was able to do this things again in the last couple of months. In that same period of time I...

Thank you for all the warm welcomes! It is really good to be able to tell my story, and to find people who have PTSD symptoms. I feel in my day to day life I meet few who truly understand.

Martina, I am sorry to hear about what's happen to you. I can assure you there are other people who can empathize with your situation, not because they've walked in your shoes, but because they've traveled similar roads. Sometimes when I tell people that I don't remember most of my trauma the...

@PrayersPlz - I'm sorry to hear that you have been through such hell. It's always amazing to me that they tell you to go to an emergency room if you're having a psychiatric emergency, but then they never help. I even told my friend that it would be good for her husband during a time which he was...

Hi everyone, I usually skip the introduction part of forums, and pop right into posting. But something tells me that in this case, that isn't fair to anyone. In writing what I'm going to write, you will know more about me than anyone who knows me in "real life" does. In the words of Kurt...

I am not an advocate of lying either, but you have to protect your sanity as it has to be your first and foremost concern, not only to maintain yourself, but to be able to do your job in the future. This is usually where I pull out the "horrible can't get out of bed migraine" card. It doesn't...