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Of course, I know how lost one can feel and without understanding from people who experience it, feeling alone and helpless is very scary. I am so glad I have support here on the forum, it has been a game changer for my self esteem and helps me build trust with my own intuition. I have had a...

I have the same type of symptoms at the start of a relapse into what I call an episode. I shake, and have warm flashes. I can’t sleep and when I do my unconscious mind startles me to sit up and I feel uncontrollable fear. I am afraid to leave the apartment. It is exhausting and I feel like my...

Slightly overwhelmed 😱

My support network and my ability to look after myself better step by step ☺️

Welcome to the forum 🧚‍♂️

You found people here who understand your struggles. Welcome.

Look under CPTSD… @Freida the two types of trauma are similar from what I have researched. A CPTSD diagnosis is not always recognized as the diagnosis PTSD. I understand your interest as I could understand myself. I think both things can break people… The source is different but the symptoms…...

My T says it can get worse before better, and that is typical 🤔. Guess they disagree. Disassociating is part of the puzzle and it is scary. I guess you have to decide if the EMDR is helping and is it worth going through the hell of disassociating 🧚

Welcome. I hate that question because honestly I don’t have one happy memory and realizing that spins me out. I recently had a second 6 month spiral, I so understand… Hope you find some comfort on the forum ☺️

Welcome… that is a scary place to be. You are not alone…you found all of us ☺️

I understand… it is so exhausting and for me mostly everything I tried to control didn’t do what I wanted ☺️. I am not always good with just letting things happen, but I have been so exhausted in the last 5 months.,, I couldn’t try and control anything… and that is how I realized… it wasn’t such...

Love it! I can be so impatient with this, and I think … especially when the body’s sweating and shaking 🤣

I hoped to nail the shit on the head and started working to fix it 🤣🤣. I learned I have to go through the shame, intolerable fear and depression. I so understand… the fear I felt from March-June was something I can’t describe and I isolated myself. I called 3 friends just to hear their voices...

No lecture it happens… look after yourself… you are worth it ☺️

Thanks @Friday Good info … it wasn’t a cold 😊 I think it’s my reaction to him now. He has let me down so often. That said I picked him , so I take responsibility 🙈. I just finally realized he is the duplicate of my dad… take about nothing all good. Speak the truth and have feelings? No...

I understand again, but here’s the thing for me. Some of my friends are not affected by mental health issues in a disabling way, but they still show support… we speak about it openly. This is rather new, as I never really talked about it in depth, the root causes. However, some of them have...

My friends and family. My Ketamine therapy. My therapist. New revelation about myself. Hope.

I have been pondering this issue for years. Control was the only thing that made me feel I was somehow safe. It never worked and I made my life more stressful than it already was. The truth is we can’t control much and the more I try, the more unhappiness I create for myself. Letting go of the...

Yes it is.. Fun makes me more productive… it motivates me, and makes me feel good

Welcome! My story is similar, abandoned and neglected by my parents and survived the foster care system of 7-8 “homes”. You are not alone, and I feel for you and understand how tuff it is. There is light at the end of the tunnel, at least I can see it. I have been battling my demons for 50...

I also have trouble with authority figures. I was abandoned to foster care moved 7 times over a 8 year period. Both of my parents were in denial. It makes it hard to trust anyone. Fast forward 45 years and I still have issues. I screen therapists maybe because I have had so many 🤪. It is a...

Welcome to the forum. I would ask myself what helps me most, if any and then do those. For me yoga and breathing because I don’t like to journal but I write when I feel like it. The healing for me comes when I listen to my body and act accordingly 🧚‍♂️

I really understand, some people will try and reduce you to your honesty about your struggles. I have had people do that but in most of those cases they weren’t people I would call real friends or actually people with whom I wanted to be friends with. In fact I think my struggles made them...

I would accept it. Trauma and CPTSD are not a competition for who had it the worst. It isn’t for me to judge. However, if this date wanted to date and I found them unbearable I wouldn’t date them. I don’t agree…spanking a child can lead to it. In fact at my school I was spanked by a male...