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Welcome ! my only experience with EMDR was over 30 years ago. It freaked me out. However 30 years ago I didn’t understand my PTSD. I would try it again, in a stable phase. Glad you found the forum !

I have a question about bodily reactions. I am trying to start listening to my body’s signals and this is something I tend to avoid because my reactions scare me and I have never listened. I don’t think I learned to trust them. This morning I woke up again to my whole body overheating and...

Hello Soulseeker…Welcome to the forum… at the moment I am not sure what I enjoy 🤣 In the middle of figuring that out again. This group is very supportive…Hope you find comfort in the community…

I understand I have this as well…the pain feels like it’s going to kill me. I want to live without it and I don’t know how…Exhausting 🙈. Sending solidarity …

Welcome to the forum… Fear is also my biggest challenge! It grips me into total non functional mode… I really relate. Congrats on your studies… 😎

I didn’t finish my posts oops. The medical community is hard to navigate when one feels lost in all these diagnoses. I didn’t really understand PTSD which I was diagnosed with 26 years ago so I just ignored it. I focused on the depression and anxiety… which was a mistake actually. I think I...

I understand. The medical community

I do get this….loving life…is a high bar. I will go with content. I understand isolate I have been doing it for a long time. I started with help to go walking, swimming and it is hard to be there alone. I have trouble trusting people and that mirrors my not trusting myself and my choices. I...

So true…. 😍

I do get this. I have been having flashbacks about all sorts of stuff I thought I had dealt with… my T says I only spoke about it now I am feeling it, like I did back then. The memories are so upsetting I pace and feel like banging my head against something to make it stop. Instead I breathe...

Please send me this detox diet...I want try it Arfie....:-)

@CazzTheGeek I know how hard that is, I have been through it. It felt surreal and was really scary. I felt lost and had a 6 year old who needed me. It was hell for quite a while. I eventually got through it, but back then I was not as healthy in my relationship with myself, and besides...

Hey Cazz, you’re welcome. Learning to be there for ourselves and our own best interests is very tough, you deserve to be your main concern.. Your strength is not in question.. sometimes being vulnerable and needing help is what shows our strength 🧚

Welcome Emanessence, I know this well, what you are describing. I have lived in survival mode most of my life. I am learning I cannot control much of anything. It has been a very long process. I have had a new therapist for about 4 years and I trust him. That trust helped me believe I...

I so get this, looking for patterns which can be very useful sometimes spins me into another body of intrusive thoughts… go figure… When I have had enough I keep telling my thoughts … cancel cancel. When I am in an anxiety spin, rational is out the window 🧚 Yes I hav I have experienced this a...

Welcome to the forum… I trust my gut instincts when it comes to relationships. I haven’t had one for a long time because I cannot handle the uncertainty I feel. I have mostly had relationships with guys who cannot communicate, are often vague about things and tend to be somewhat narcissistic...

To be honest, which I alway am, I lived through many relationships where I raged and pandered to my partner's needs and not mine. I have also worked through my issues with therapists many. I found my relationships had a pattern, people who had their own issues that coincided with mine. It was...

Well be that as it may, death of one of my “demons” didn’t change my overall struggles. It did give me some relief, as my mother was a burden for me. Her being alive left me in a guilt trip for cutting her out of my life, yes I know, that guilt was mine to figure out. She abandon me, but...

Still stuck and reread the thread. I still believe everything I wrote. The depression has a grip and it won‘t let go. I am separating my healthy thinking from the illness. Reminding myself I am not my depression, I am a warrior. I practice acceptance, and my mind is so tired of all the negative...

I feel this … too, when I am in a hard place. 🧚‍♂️. I am trying to trust it will all work out, step by step.,It is a struggle. 🌸

It depends on the state I am in. I used to be unable to understand my anxiety at all. Speaking to the right people about it, helped me realize what was regular … most people would be nervous…healthy anxiety, versus why am I afraid to open my letter box, fearing bad news or an another thing to...

I slept well 👍

Supportive people, dinner 😊

My loving friends for sticking by me.

It seems you have a lot going on and from some of the comments, it has been this way for a while. I understand that, and I have been blessed with finding a therapist per telephone that has given me invaluable support. I know how hard it is to find someone who gets it and can help. I don’t know...