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I'm the same been through something similar I hate touch I sleep in a child like position in have to be under the covers I have night mares every night I'm also 41 years old and have ptsd it does get easier when I met my husband 18 years ago he was the first person allowed to touch me even now I...
I understand he's probably pushing you away because he might think that what you want as I know that how I am with hubbie I've been there so I know because I have ptsd and it's so hard because you push people away I'm meaning me stick with him you get there in the end
I'm the same I have ptsd and I have two kids it is a struggle I've just started emtd and hypnosis which I think will help me Sometimes my hubbie dosent understand it but he did read up on it so it helped a bit if ya need to chat were all on here most of the time
I was raped repeatedly over 25 years ago and I have ptsd as a result I often sleep with a knife under my bed as I feel safe every little noise in the night I jump up and grab the knife on a few night my hubbie has woke to see me standing there shaking with a knife in my hand and he has to sit me...
I too suffered rape and abuse at the age of 11 for 3 years and It was the hardest thing to deal with as five years ago I developed ptsd and I'm still fighting it
It does get easier I was crying so much when I told mine about the rapes but I felt huge relief I too sometime feel like giving up but I'm still her I too seeing a new pherapist that it scares me but that's all part of the healing process
Its hard I suppose as a counsellor has a duty if she feels your indanger of doing something to your self I know you feel like this or is a cry for help because I've said theese things and did them but I wanted help
Normally a few weeks if it depression meds your other meds should start working in a few days I lost a hell lot of weight when I was ill 3 stone in ten weeks as I couldn't eat I wasn't hungry because I was deppressed I allways feel nervous around people it perfectly normal to feel like this with...
It takes a few weeks for meds to work try soothing music like Kenny g he just plays saxophone your brain is trying to stop you thinking about stuff that's probly why your heating beating fast are you sure they not panic attacks sounds like they are I cuddle my teddy when I feel like this
in counselling they have a saying flight fight or freeze so I guess you tk flight in your mind the thing with ptsd s the more you fight it the worse it makes you will get throu it I've been living throu mine for 25 years nit I blocked it out so I didn't have t think about it
You will feel like this you've been through so much I haven't had it as bad as you I still now get some deppressed and I shake and cry all the time it's amazing how the haven't treated your ptsd as it is separate from depression I can tell you in time you will get better but you have to keep...
I think you did the right thing for your own piece of mind you've been so brave to report it that takes a lot of courage which you have inside it dosent matter you wasn't believed but only you know what he did and you spoke out well done that's part of the healing process when we speak out as it...
This will help you a lot it's my life line since I've been on hear I too have ptsd from 25 year ago when I was reapetedly raped so if you need help were all here for you
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was raped from the aged of 11 to aged of 13 when I was 18 I saw my abuser on the way to work he tried to drag me into his car I went to work distraught I had to come home it brought it all back I couldn't breath I was crying after that I blocked it out until 2009 a routine opp went wrong...
Here goes I can't deal.with this anymore I'm having so many flashbacks up to five in the day and more at night now I'm getting to the point what I don't know if reality is real anymore.
I'm 2009 I got I'll as a result I started to rember some truma I choose not to rember the more I denied the...
Give him time as he has ptsd which I have and I'm the same one minute I want Hubbie to touch me the next I can't stand him near me I think what your boyfriend is experiencing is fear to be loved as evertime you get close it brings it all back flashbacks with medication and counselling which I...