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Can you give me a breathing exercise? That’s a great idea! Trying it. But I’m in public so don’t want to look THAT strange

I’ve been hyperventilating on and off (Mostly on) for the past five or so days. It’s absolutely exhausting and I don’t know what to do. Did all my breathing exercises, sensory, even self harming is not helping it. Texted my P asking for a tranquilizer or something but I’m sure she won’t give...

I have a T that I am very happy with. But I need to remember more and she is not equipped to do things like EMDR or hypnotherapy. Have any of you done hypnotherapy and would you suggest it? What were your experiences like? do you know if it’s covered by insurance and if not how much does it...

It wasn’t a bad day but I was driving one of my uncles and had a super duper panic attack. Hyperventilating etc for close to an hour. Couldn’t breathe properly. I’m used to this. It happens daily but this one was harder. And it came with, not flashbacks, but little flashback pop ups. I...

Same with me! I had had recurring nightmares since a little child. Once I told it to my T, never had it again. And then a few years later (now) the flashbacks started… and what a punch to the gut it was. My world was thrown upside down. But I can’t seem to explain this to my siblings in a way...

Yeh. I’ve stopped confiding in pple (really just family. Anyone else believes me. But it still hurts. So bad Yes, I can tap into that knowing. I know exactly what you mean. But… it means going to a horrible place in order to feel the fear, the pain, the FEAR again. And I don’t want to :( I know...

I feel pretty much the same way. Except I do believe my flashbacks bc they’re so REAL. Being gaslit… constantly. That’s why I wrote this post. I thought maybe I can try to fight back with some evidence… 🤷🏻‍♀️

I just had a conversation with my brother about an abuser I just recently remembered through crazy intense scary flashbacks. Brother claims that he’s done “a ton of research” and that flashbacks cannot be trusted. My T full on believes me (together with all the body memories etc). But is...

Yes! This! Exactly

Ok, to summarize: recently I started having flashbacks to my second child molester. He is my ex-brother in law. I was having awful memories (he’s really mean & scares the hell out of me) of different things he’d done to me as a child. I wasn’t planning on telling my sister… why make her possibly...

Yes, I’m sure of it. But this is something I just confirmed via flashbacks and recovered memories… from 30+ years ago… No one will believe me. They’ll laugh in my face. It won’t do anything. And that’s IF I decided to go that route. Because the kids, my nieces & nephews will be so mad with me...

My caring about things in life is getting steadily less. I feel I’m slowly getting completely numb. In every aspect… * mentally-not caring what happens to me, if I’m sick, too cold or too hot, get hit by a car etc * physically-gain weight/lose weight; I just don’t care. Feel so disconnected from...

I just wrote this poem because I feel I’m going to bust. I’ve been doing so many things to try masking the pain… this seems to be the healthiest so far. Daggers of pain I’m not looking for compliments… I desperately need advice! I’m so torn… what do I do???

I’m sitting here going out of my mind with the thoughts in my head & my apparently automatic reaction to fight thinking these thoughts. So I cigarette burnt myself. Helped a little but not anymore so going to do it again. I don’t really care… so I’ll get a scar from the blisters. But I’m...

Good point! Do you smoke a certain strain? Love love love this! Thank you so much. There’s so much info here that I’m going to have to look back on it every so often :) will copy this into my phone. Golden

Thank you… I’m feeling better

Was prescribed Robaxin 750 mg by pain management doc to take one 3 times daily. Wasn’t helping and in a lot of pain so took 6 at once 1.5 hours ago. Started feeling numbness in tongue and lips. Spoke to nurse I know who told me to keep an eye… if it gets worse I need to go to hospital. Anyone...

Lately I’ve been smoking marijuana for physical and mental pain. I seem to have flashbacks almost every time, so much so that I dread smoking up but I do it because even though they’re terrible the next day, while I’m having the flashbacks I’m high so even the scariest thing is not really scary...

I guess more suicidal. But I’m not always actively having suicidal ideation… I just don’t see myself living/making it too much longer. If that makes sense 😬

Every time I have a medical issue I think to myself, I can’t afford this and it’s not really worth it since I won’t be alive for that much longer so what’s the point in Investing money into something that’s going to be gone soon? For example: I have a lot of problems with my teeth. It’s not...

Yes I have a great T

Had a family meal today. Mother was saying a story, describing a room & it ticked me straight back. Was trying so hard to stay present but it kept pulling me back. Don’t know how I looked to others. Is this “normal”? How do you deal with this?

I feel the same way you describe. I feel like I’m in that in between place of remembering & fighting to believe myself I’ve never had a psychotics episode Never had psychosis. The person in the flashback is someone who hurt me. It’s not coming out of thin air. But what he did here… it’s...

So what does that mean for me?

I’ve only started having flashbacks around 6 months ago. I’ve had PTSD for around 8 years. My flashbacks are horrible but they’re helping me piece together my memories, which I want. Last night I had a stomach curdling atrocious flashback. It was so bad (& inconceivable to me) that I...