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Remember, that getting the PTSD diagnosis is triggering, and forcing memories, all by itself. I think it is a normal phase. :)

Thank you for saying that. I feel there are 2 approaches. The "tough love" one, and the "compassion and empathy" one. You seem to strive on "tough love". That is awsome. It destroys me. I guess it has alot to do with where we are coming from. I find more strength through love, empathy and...

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Well, getting an official diagnosis of PTSD can be quite the stirring experience. I do not think enabling is the right choice of word in your context. I believe "justificating" would be more apt. Can you be sure that it is not what you needed at the time of transition? The way you phrase it...

Hello. I am sure you will. :hug:

It is fantastic to find people who can relate. Your responses were very validating, or is it confirming?, to me. Thank you. It doesnt cease to amaze me, that I finally found people who percieve things alot like I do. :smug::wacky::smug:

I thought for the longest time that I was batshit insane, crazy. But when I found out about PTSD and Dissociation I saw the method behind my madness. I do not consider myself crazy anymore, at least not when my mood is tolerable or high. An illness that is difficult to understand, or not yet...

For what it is worth: That was beautifully written. Hello! And Nightmare before Christmas for 9 year olds? INSANITY. :O_o: I watched it when I was 16 and had nightmares for weeks. :woot: Still love it though.

A few months ago I was coming to the end. Could not live with me anymore. Nothing made sense, I felt fragmented and confused on an existential level. I think I was dying from broken spirit. I have been searching for many years what was going on with me, nothing made sense. I needed to know what...

Kegel excersises help me a million times more to calm down, be mindfull in the moment and relax then breathing ever did. I also can do them basically everywhere, while this breathing thing makes me feel selfconcious and emberressed when I try it, for example, in a train. They also had some other...

I try very, very hard to be responsible that way. I very much love the response of "not promising, but planning." That helps me a bunch. I often want to promise, but I should know about myself that in my chaotic states a promise can be a bit overeager sometimes. I think, because I try so very...

So, this is a bit sad and beautifull I believe. I have nightmares every night, ever since I can remember. It started in early elementary school. Sleeping for me means having nightmares, no way around it. Every once in a very long while, I have a nice night. Normally when that happens I cry...

I have a hard time stopping dissociation and altered personality states because I do not know what is real or what is not anymore. It is all so very confusing. I have spent a lot of time figuring out what is the real me, the real personality, how it feels like not dissociating. That the antidote...

Wow. This hit close to home. I am speechless. Once I was like this. Mostly the rational side/apperently normal, the little kid hidden, only coming out when alone. The rational side was for school, work, friendships and socialising. It worked well, I was accepted and liked. But then my trauma...

Awsome!! Treat yourself, order out or something. You deserved it!

I hope I am not out of line, but reading this thread it occured to me that this is a very, very political thread. Quite fascinating. If one takes out the specifics, this reads as every other political discussion of people with differing point of views.

I dont understand how these people operate. I am desperately afraid of being wrong in my selfdiagnosis, which hopefully wont remain one much longer. I was in a situation where I needed to find out what first step to make because I was truly backed into the corner. Nobody believed me, I was...

Thank you all so much!

It became easier for me when I started to think of it as mental injury, instead of illness.

Dying of thirst while sitting next to a beautiful river. Everytime you try to reach in and bring some water to your mouth it just pours from your hand, leaving it completely dry.

Hello I wanted to ask the experienced sufferer (lol) for some insight concerning surviving until therapy starts. I have severe PTSD from 20 years of abuse and neglect, deaths and bullying. Since I realized I had PTSD I am not coping so well, (not that I have done much better before) I feel so...

Hello, I have something I would like to ask you folk. Do you also percieve yourself as very unstable in times of stress? What I want, if I want something, how I want it changes with the wind. It is driving me nuts right now. Life has become uncertain and stressfull again, and I feel like I...

I feel angry. Twenty years of abuse and neglect caused CPTSD in me. This makes me sad, not angry. The anger comes from the fact, that I fought them. I fought the abusers, their ideas, their power over me. I worked on myself since I had the first bitter taste of hope when I was 14, 15. When I...

Hello. I just drop a link to my Boredom-Thread here, as I suspect there is a correlation between these two threads. Is there anything less stimulating then doing the dishes? When I manage to do the dishes or chores etc. I listen to interesting podcasts about history and science. If I do not the...

Hello. I am starting to think that boredom is the worst enemy in my fight against PTSD. Whenever I am bored all my symptoms skyrocket violently and I have a very hard time controlling them. I have not "explored" that for a long time, as it just recently occurred to me, so it is just something...