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What ive done is try and limit the stressor. Using your cinema example. I am terrified of who I will sit beside and need to know where the exits are. So when I go, I make sure to select a seat (I book it beforehand) next to aisle and my fiance sits next to me. Eliminating anyone else sitting...

Firstly, I would like to say welcome to the forum, I'm sure you will find many kind and helpful people who will be able to offer support and guidance. I am so sorry about the situation you are finding yourself in. It must be so difficult to deal with and having PTSD myself, I can only imagine...

"If its said after X years of when the abuse happened, then it is not true. Otherwise you would have said it when it happened". "You didnt try hard enough to stop it, so you wanted it to happen." Said by numerous family members when u finally had the courage to out my uncle after years of...

I can relate. I dont know who I am.

Feel completely alone, depressed and all I want to do is get into bed and cry. People don't understand me when I tell them just how sad I'm feeling. It makes me feel so much worse as it makes me feel like I'm just exaggerating how I'm feeling. I've tried discussing this with my doctor with no...

congratulations rising! I mean Dr Rising :P lol I knew you could do it! :singing::singing::singing::whistling::peeking::hilarious: All that hard work paid off :) Im so excited to see where this journey will take you! Well done! Swords x

Thanks for taking the time to read and comment @Justmehere I wasn't aware of this. I don't really know much about. I think I might google it later on. You have no idea how much those words mean to me. I've never really had them from my parents or anyone growing up and as much as I feel I...

Thank for taking the time to read and comment on my post @Namenotdiagnosis I am really sorry if it has been a trigger for you :( I really didn't mean to make anyone trigger at all! Thanks for your kind words and if you need help trying to ground, you can always message me. Hope you feel better...

Thanks for the advice @Solara The only ones that do speak to me is my mum and dad (apart from bf), sorry I didn't make that part clear in my post. I was very overwhelmed and was just typing it all out. It is hard to cut ties, i completely agree with you on that. Im trying so hard to do it. I...

I haven't posted in a while but I'm in so much pain right now and have tried so many ways in which to try and cope but feel myself slipping. All my life I have been the one that people have considered "different" and "weird". No matter what I have done I have always been seen as the black sheep...

Im here if you need to talk sis :hug:

My friend has come to visit and I feel terrible. Im finding it difficult to pretend to he ok, when I know im not. My anxiety is really bad amd I feel so depressed. I love her to bits but its draining to put ona facade that Iim perfectly fine when im the complete opposite inside....

This week is tough. I approach a anniversary of abuse. This time every year until January, everything gets worse. The reminder of Christmas approaching everywhere does not help. This time of loving and bringing people together, was never the case for me growing up and Christmas turned into a...

To follow on from yesterday. Everything keeps getting worse :( today I saw my abuser and he was too close for comfort. Im freaked out and feel depressed. It has brought back many bad memories for me. :(

My own finance has walkes out. He said he doesnt want to sit here whilst I cry again. Not even he can handle me anymore :( my family dont talk to me and im feeling so alone

I feel like no one around me cares. Like life doesnt want me, like im here by mistake :( I was never wanted and even now feel like im not

Im finding it so hard right now.This feeling of lonliness and never going to be happy feels like its consuming me! I look back at my past and see sadness and when I look to my future I see this too. I want to be happy! I cant be though, not matter how much I try! I cant cope, I cant when all I...

Oh wow! This is so weird for me because literally 2 hours ago I was telling my fiance that I may be triggered by being happy! This happens to me too. Is that a normal trigger? He says im scared of being depressed after the happiness (like a fall) I'm not sure though.

Nope. My abuser (uncle) is a teacher (and I unfortunately had him as my teacher too for 4 years) he has a degree in physical education. So far I have completed 2/3 of my degree and when I am done id say we would be at the same educational level. Ill see where this take me later. Who knows...

Im in :) (((Added to conversation by KP)))

This is going to sound weird but dark chocolate is a good alternative. It releases a chemical in your brain that makes you feel happy. I covered this during a level psychology in school :) it has to be dark though. Not milk chocolate. The more concentrated the cocoa the more the effect. Like...

Thank you everyone for your very kind words. After crying for the past few days and thinking on it a lot, I now feel better. I have decided that I will NOT go back to this T. She clearly does not care about others, which I think is an important characteristic for a therapist. You are all...

I dont know how to explain how I am feeling or what I am going through, I've never really been any good at describing what im feeling and have difficulty pin pointing emotions that I feel. Two days ago I went to see a therapist. She is now my new therapist as I haven't been to therapy in...

Hi was wondering if there are any survivors on this forum from Gibraltar? I think it would be good to know someone who is suffering from PTSD where I am from and be eachothers support systems. Also I am having a hard time with finding help where I am from, if anyone from Gib could please help...