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Thank you so much Laurie. Your support and friendship means the world to me. Big hugs xxx

Thank you for your lovely comments folks, I am very humbled by your kind words. Muse and Simply Simon it's not that I feel it would be better for me, far from it, I just thought everyone else might prefer it. I really am not coping at all, with anything, and feel like I am just heading for...

I hate to say it but I am thinking that maybe it is time for me to say goodbye to the forum. I have 'met' some lovely and wonderful people, some with amazing stories, some who have achieved incredible things. However, this has made me realise that my story is so insignificant. I am just...

Oh Mal that's awful. If I can do anything or you want to talk please PM me. You are so kind and supportive to me, it would be good to be able to help you. Big hugs to you if you ok with that xxc

She is a tyrant Gizmo. I am going to see a friend of mine after work tonight. She has been helping me with my PTSD as she also suffers from it, but thankfully has largely got it under control, so understands. I just need to sit down and chat with someone that I know cares and is supportive...

I just don't know what to do to be honest. I am totally and utterly at the end of my tether with it all I really am. I felt like I was making some progress with it all, my counsellor is lovely and very helpful, but this morning I just don't know what to do with myself. I am sat at my desk at...

I do try to escape to our room but the trouble is she just doesn't respect privacy or anything! She will just come barging in regardless. I can't even nap on the settee without her shouting at me to wake me up. The day that I had my shoulder put back, I came home and just wanted to rest as it...

She is very toxic! My only escape is when I go to bed at night or go to work. I am following exactly what the docs are telling me. To be honest I cannot cope without the sling at the moment, it's bad enough taking it off to wash and dress as it has a strap that does round my waist to immobilise...

Hi Gizmo, yes my Hubbie and I live with her. She has a real issue with anything like that. The doctors have laid it on the line that if I don't take care of it then it will be surgery as I have injured it badly. I am in an awful lot of pain but she doesn't care about that. I can't sleep properly...

Hi Gizmo, that is exactly how I feel right now. It is as if everything is just falling down on me and I can't do anything about it. It is just one thing after another. The PTSD diagnosis, quite a few of my friends turning their back on me when I needed their help and support, not being able...

This is not entirely linked to my PTSD however I firmly believe that it is made worse by it and that one sets off the other. About three years ago now, my father had a mini stroke which whilst he recovered from physically left him with dementia. Eventually after a year of us trying to cope...

I feel like a total fraud very often when I read some of the heart wrenching stories on here of what people have gone through. I feel as if my trauma was so small and insignificant compared to most people. It was a 'one off' event, it did not go on for ages with repeated occurances or anything...

FridayJones, when you put it like that it kinda makes me see sense totally!! I guess it's not surprising I am exhausted!! Plus got a lot of stress at the moment with my dad who is in a care home and has bouts of being a bit poorly which is a big worry. And yes, I am depressed too....,

It was lovely Gizmo, totally exhausted though for some reason!

I find the exhaustion just crippling sometimes. Gizmo, my family know nothing about my diagnosis so it's not easy. I am at work during the day and try to have a short nap in my lunch hour and always fall asleep on the settee in the evenings. Tonight seems particularly bad, I am just struggling...

Hi, I was just wondering if exhaustion is part of PTSD?? I am just constantly tired just lately. Fall asleep on settee a lot but cannot sleep well when I go to bed as I am so afraid of the nightmares. It has only been worse since dislocating my shoulder as struggle with the pain at night. I...

Adrian2016, firstly you are among friends here who will help you. I cannot offer much advice I am afraid but my trauma involved the death of two people I knew so I really do understand. I too am fighting the same very big war with PTSD and according to my counsellor I am suffering severe trauma...

Will I ever feel happy again?? :cry::cry: My dad is in a care home. He is 87 and has dementia caused by a mini stroke 3 years ago. He has had a few bad days this week, very sleepy and not as with it as usual. I am just so very scared of losing him and don't know how I woukd begin to cope when...

I am not actually taking any at the moment Gizmo. Had some emergency anti anxiety ones the other night when I had a breakdown but nothing since apart from Tramadol for pain. Still feel same today, it feels like a backward step as its back to being how I was at the start of the process. It's...

Thank you Gizmo, everyone is being so kind and helpful. I have suddenly gone from being very teary and emotional to being totally emotionless and I don't like that. I had my counsellor appointment today and it was like I was talking about someone else, not me. I cannot explain it but it's a...

Laurie, that is a bit of a shock! I do hope you are ok. The good news is that the medication is keeping you stable but really not good about the mini strokes. Do keep up any exercises they have given you for your arm and hand as they do help. My dad had a mini stroke that effected his left side...

Hi Whyteferret, thanks so much for caring. I am not crying so much today thank goodness, just incredibly tired as missed out on so much sleep recently. Been back to the hospital with my arm today and now got it in a cast which means I can take the sling off at nights and will be easier to...

Thank you so much Digger, some good ideas there. It is early days for me, only been seeing the counsellor for about 4 weeks and really need his support as got nobody at home that I can talk to. Thank you for caring enough to post, I really appreciate it. Just feel so rough....

Heard from my counsellor this morning and can't give me an appointment until next Wednesday! Really don't know what I am going to do. Don't want to keep crying on chat to everyone, it doesn't seem right, but really don't have anyone else to talk to. Feeling lost and very alone. Hurting so much...

Thank you Ed