Search results

Ten years, trillions of dollars, 5,000+ American troop and God knows how many Iraqi and Afghan lives, and one broken and decimated country later, one man is killed. Was it worth it?

Meh. I'll take it with a grain of salt.

Don't pay attention to them, they don't understand. Just like I wouldn't pay attention to a guy who tries to tell me I shouldn't travel when he's never left the United States in his life. He just doesn't know what he's talking about. It's very easy for people to hold others to a certain standard...

What exactly do you mean by "childhood-type fantasies?"

That makes me so happy! I knew you could do it :) !

Everyone gets tired or bored and becomes distracted. However "daydreaming" is not, I think, so much a form of disassociation as it is a manifestation of difficulty concentrating, which is also a symptom of PTSD. Disassociation, from what I understand, has more to do with feeling outside of...

I think for me concentrating on something is actually very relaxing. Once I am really able to get focused it's almost like a drug that makes me very calm and peaceful, for the very reason that it forces me to block out everything else around me. It feels like my mind doesn't want to stop because...

Tripping and falling does not erase the miles you've already walked. Going through therapy for trauma does not erase the fact that you are human. Everytime I screw up, which I do do more than I'd even care to admit, I close my eyes and think of that session months ago when my therapist looked at...

You can get through this sunshine. Find ways to distract yourself from the thoughts when they come up. Remeber that you are a beautiful child of God and He cherishes you more than you could ever imagine. When you weep, He weeps for you. Stay strong. When you come out the other end without...

I think communicating with her more about your disorder will be paramount. I also wouldn't be afraid of asking her if she'd be willing to do couples therapy, if only once or twice. A professional might be able to more clearly and effectively explain to her the implications of PTSD in a...

That's such a terrible feeling, to know that those who were supposed to guard you with their life knowingly put you in harms way. I'm so very sorry you're having to deal with that. I too went through a period where I felt intense anger at those who abused me. I felt particularly angry with my...

You are making an awful lot of assumptions Anthony. I had not and still have not ever met that nurse face to face. The one and only time we talked was over the phone. I did not have any level of trust built with her and did not consider her a supporter, that had more to do with the fact that I...

Yeesh. I hear you with the health insurance thing. I had to stop taking medications and seeing a counselor for several months because September rolled around and I was neither a full time student or a full time employee so I couldn't be on my parents policy anymore. It's a pain :O_o:

Ah yes, that's a common experience. That was something that came up with my first real therapist a lot, the fact that my objective, intellectual self would tell me one thing, but the sensitive, traumatized part of me would say quite another. Come to think of it, I think that's a common...

Oh, and trying to force me to tell my mother that I was feeling suicidal wasn't unethical at all? I thought there was also a law that requires professionals to protect the confidentiality of their clients. If a professional just makes the call and has me hospitalized, fair enough. If a...

That's wonderful! You've made excellent progress by being able to talk to someone besides a professional about your pain. I have the opposite problem. When I open up to someone it feels good at the time but then I feel akward afterward. You didn't have control over losing your family. Death...

Go to the gym. Do some weight lifting. And while you're lifting weights, think about your brother and how much you want to decapitate him. Use that energy to push the weight up and give yourself strength. You could even just do push ups to some loud music and think the same thing. Nothing good...

It is a flawed assumption that everyone around us will just move on if we commit suicide. My stepfather's brother committed suicide and my stepfather believes this contributed to his father's severe health problem and early onset of dementia. I've heard a mother talk about her husband committing...

Give yourself a big pat on the back for getting through such a hard session. Your feelings of anger and vengefullness sound similar to something I went through about a year into my real therapy. I had a tremendous amount of anger built up toward my family for what they put me through...

Every pancake has two sides, no matter how flat it is. But neither side negates the other, especially when it comes to emotions. My PTSD came from child abuse. All of my parents, with the exception of my stepmother, endured abuse of their own in their childhoods, which was no doubt the...

I'm here Cheshire, I'm here and listening. Court is a horrible experience to go through no matter who you are. I'm so sorry you're having to relive all of that again just for the sake of justice. Just remember, no matter what the outcome of the trial it doesn't change your experience or your...

I had a similar experience when I was in the psychiatric ward. I never really had a panic attack until after I was in the hospital. I was in there for two weeks and frankly it was starting to drive me crazy. One day I was so stressed and tense I swear I felt physical pressure in my head. Just my...

Amen to that! Sheesh! Reading your post made what I had to deal with sound like a cakewalk. :confused:

Hi SimplyComplex. Welcome to the forum! I am unabashed in saying I've made tremendous progress in the last 2 years. I actually first started seeing counselors regularly at age 15 and saw high school counselors on and off before that. However it wasn't until I came here to my university and...

Yes, I have had to deal with my share of incompetent therapists. It's upsetting to think people who we are supposed to trust unequivoclly can screw us over like that. I was meeting with a nurse some weeks ago to monitor my thyroid disease, and as I was explaining the history of my condition and...