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I believe it is a new med...the question is WHICH ONE. I feel like my body is heavy, I want to sleep all the time. When I am awake I want to die (but love my son too much to do that) and I have flashbacks like they're going out of style. My therapist almost put me in the hospital today. She...

I have dissociative episodes where I don't really have another personality, but rather I am myself at, say age 5. I have the same name, I never remember my adult life, I don't retain memories from one dissociative episode to the next. Sometimes I'll be 5, sometimes 9, and so on and so forth...

Yesterday I felt angry for no reason. Today I feel the most deep depression I've ever experienced. I have been in bed for 5 hours. I think it might have to do with the Lyrica I just started, but I also just started Seroquel and Remeron, so I have no idea what's going on. I'm not suicidal (of...

I too, get over stimulated. I can't handle a long time in a place like Wal-Mart or Target. My head starts to swim and I get sick to my stomach. Too many things to pay attention to. As soon as I am home on my laptop or in the tub watching Hulu on my phone I start to feel better. There are...

I, too, am hyper-vigilant at night. I lay awake and listen to hear if someone is coming down the hall. This will often kick of flashbacks, which doesn't help it improve at all. I also sleep lightly because my mommy senses are always on at night because I sleep in the same room as my son. I'm...

Does anyone here have trouble when their child/ren are experiencing intense emotions? My son gets really frustrated and irritable and that makes me start to get overwhelmed. I have to remind myself that his feelings are not my own, that I can remain calm when he is not. I do have to admit...

My psychiatrist has prescribed Lyrica for my anxiety. She pulled me off of Gabapentin and I went through withdrawal because I had been on that for 9 years. She intends on taking me off of Klonopin next week and adding Zoloft and Ativan. I also recently started taking Seroquel, 200 mg at...

my nightmares are pretty specific.

I found my therapist through a recommendation my dad's coworker made. I was 13 at the time. People were aware that I was sexually abused, but didn't know who it was. I didn't really start treatment on the actual trauma until I was 28 years old. I'm now 40 and still have the same therapist...

I'm on a see food diet. If I see food, I eat it.

The only thing in the world that matters is my love for my son and his safety and well being. I suppose I can take that reality and try to build out from there...

I wet the bed when I have flashbacks.

I am unable to work because of my PTSD. My friends are important to me but after giving all of the energy I have left to my son I have nothing left for friends. PTSD takes up a huge portion of my mind, my son takes up the rest (the majority).

I'm changing meds right now and having days with flashbacks that won't stop or days that disappear completely and I don't remember a darn thing. I do my best to function but if I have to send my son away for a day it's okay, because I won't feel this way forever.

OMG have I tried grounding exercises! I feel like that's all I do. I find something rough in the room, find something smooth, find something shiny, find something soft. Feel my feet on the ground, name the colors of all the books in the bookshelf...I could go on, but I think you get the idea...

Thank you for your kind response :-)

Good points, but for some reason a reasonable argument doesn't change the way I feel. Maybe I'm just too dissociated or something.

Hmmm, maybe I'll ask my psychiatrist for extended release.

I feel like I don't exist. I know that I have real love for my son, but I am not sure he exists either. Actually, I don't know if anyone exists. Anyone else feel this way?

Thank you!

Lyrica helps with my anxiety that triggers my body memories and flashbacks and extreme emotions, but I'm also on Seroquel and Remeron.

I stay alive for my son. I'm a single mom, he's an only child and I love him more than I want to die, and believe me...I want to die.

I have flashbacks where I relive the trauma in detail. I throw up, I wet the bed and I scratch the hell out of my side. I only do that when I'm having a flashback and I did it when I was a child to distract from the pain...doesn't really make sense, but I was a child. Did anyone else self...

I am afraid to fall asleep. I think it's because my abuse happened after I had gone to sleep as a child. Now I want to stay awake so that I can listen if anyone is coming down the hall. I know that no one is coming, but still...I'm freaked. My psychiatrist likened it to when a Vet with PTSD...

Welcome Lizbeth27! I hope you find some help here!