Search results

i had court and had to sit there pretty much all day long. the first hour of being there i felt EXTREME anger. im talking literal boiling rage inside me, i could have beat the living shit out of someone with the anger i had. anger is an understatment for what i was feeling. i was absolutely...

I have complex ptsd from prolonged domestic violence. i was walking down the street downtown one day towards where my car was parked. and i heard this girl crying, and screaming at the top of her lungs, as this angry mean dude was yelling at her, and wouldn't let go of her. she just kept...

is this normal for girls who have been abused by past boyfriends? i get so anxious around guys that im too nervous to even flirt with them. anyone else have the same problem? i wasn't near this bad before the abuse.

ive done this many times, and i wonder if its a normal occurance for most people who have ptsd. mine is complex ptsd though, which is much more intense and life altering

do you mention your mental disorder to anyone if the subject comes up in conversation? or are you very secretive about it? do most people ONLY tell those things to their close friends? i dont mind being open about my personal problems, but i worry about making the other person feel awkward. im...

do they always occur together or can they occur separately? what determines which one a person will have at a given time? does one or the other have more relation to certain types of trauma?

or is it the exact same thing?

out of all the negative ways the abuse affected me, i actually did notice something positive that came out of it. I never use to have a strong intuition, but now my instincts literally amaze me. I noticed it more and more as time went on. after i got screwed over by so many people i just stopped...

same here

if you had to choose one of these options, what would you choose? A. you die today, OR B. you start from the day you were born again and relive your whole life again, BUT... you CANNOT change anything about it. you will relive everyday the EXACT SAME WAY AS BEFORE. Experiencing everything...

I have complex ptsd. I've had 2 or 3 people tell me that i had it, before i told them that i had it. they could tell just by the way i acted and the things i said i guess. I feel like other people know i have it but just haven't said anything. can people usually see it in someone when a person...

i've had a phobia ever since i was a kid, but now it is a lot more intense than it use to be. i encountered my phobia right before a traumatic event happened. but my phobia isn't the "trauma" thing that hurt me, its just that i saw my phobia, and than someone else came along and hurt me right...

does anyone else have nightmares about their phobia? i haven't been exposed to it lately so i dont see why im dreaming about it. why is this happening? how do i stop it?

no i understand the whole dark room and dark car thing. that makes sense because my trauma happened in a dark room so thats why im paranoid in a dark room but not in a dark car.

I've had many many traumatic events in my life, and i have certain triggers, they all relate to my trauma in some way, except for one of them. why would i have a trigger that doesn't relate to my trauma in some way? does anyone else have this problem? is it possible that it does relate to my...

one of my triggers is being alone in a dark room, but i am absolutely fine if i'm alone in a dark car. i cant even walk across my bedroom to get to the light switch without turning my flashlight on to walk across the room to the light switch or ill start to panic. but i can sit in a dark car for...

1. you leave to go to the store down the road and remember to bring your weapon with you, but accidentally left your wallet at home 2. you hear the phrase "oh sorry, I didn't mean to scare you" at least 5 times everyday

what could be causing this? is this part of ptsd for other people too? or does it even relate to my ptsd? lately i've noticed that when im talking to people i do this weird thing, but i don't do it intentionally. like we will be discussing a specific subject, and ill start explaining something...

i know that i dissociate at times, but i don't have dissociative identity disorder, i don't feel like there's more than one person trying to take over me. But i remember a few different times when i was dissociated but it felt a little different than some of the other times. sometimes i just...

my therapist said I have c-ptsd because i've experienced ongoing trauma that went on for a long period of time, it wasn't just one event. how do the effects of c-ptsd differ from regular ptsd? what kind of problems does it cause that i wouldn't have if it was only ptsd? or is it just that all...

I feel like i notice i'm doing it more frequently lately. does that mean i'm getting worse? and the next day after i've come back to my normal state of mind, if i try to remember certain things that happened while i was dissociated, sometimes i cant remember, or its very hard to remember. is it...

I don't do it ever night, but it happens every couple weeks or so. I wake up so confused and sometimes i think its still yesterday. or ill think that its AM when its PM or vise versa. one time i didn't remember anything from the night before until i looked through my text messages. sometimes it...

whenever i have an episode of dissociation i always try to figure out what triggered it, i think about what i might have perceived as a potential threat right before the dissociation started. some of the things that i thought might have been the trigger do not relate to my trauma though. is it...

I believe that God is real, and I use to pray everyday. whenever i talk to my mom about how im always anxious and stressed out, she always reccomends that i pray to God an have a close personal relationship with him. but lately i've been finding that its hard to pray sometimes. I've been angry...

do other people with ptsd also feel this way? its like even the stupid little things in life can make me feel like i'm losing my mind. i get so overwhelmed with stress and anger that i feel like ripping up my entire room and destroying everything in my path OVER STUPID LITTLE THINGS. for...