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I like that my psychologist said that having a survivor mission is a way to do something with the pain. However the first time I got acute stress disorder when I was 9, after I had stopped sexual abuse in my family( my dad abused me), my baby sister was born. She became my survivor mission. And...

My psychologist said something to me about how to deal with anger and guilt and pain of what happened. She said therapy is for all of the pain to come out, and then you can start using the pain in a lifelong positive way. There comes a point where you want the pain to have mean something, so you...

Sorry you went through that. Good question. When I was studying at uni and working, it meant leaving leaving the 3 younger brothers and sisters I had helped to raise. I came back and my sister who had liked me a lot and sent me lots of letters procaliming how much she loved her sister and had...

I tend to find my fear of feelings of things like being alive (phobias) mixed up with ignorning people. It's actually so frightening I freeze. I try my best not to, I like being a good person. Sometimes I wish PTSD was simple, and not so many things combining at the one time. I will and do...

sorry to here that this has happened to you. If it were me, I would reccommend seeing a psychologist as it sounds like one would be able to help you decide what to do. I sought of gather from your post that your husband has had an affair and is wanting a divorce and you want to know if it is...

sorry for your pain. Hope that you can find some healing. You shouldnt' have to take anything, the only person who should make your expectations should be you. Sounds like your expectation is to be respected. I think that is a cool expectation actually.

I was on disability, but my husband's pay went up a few years ago, so he supports us now.I guess he's supporting me now as a disabled person. Not being able to work when I have had such a strong drive to does my head in., I was a really able worker before I got PTSD, I was doing a degree which I...

Cop pulls me over for suspicion of drunk driving. Cop: Ma'am, have you been drinking? Me: No! Cop: Papers. Me: Scissors, I win!

I like to think of anger is closer to healing than non anger or numness. When I first started therapy 13 years ago, I never got angry at all. But 10 years into the therapy, the anger started coming up, to the point now I am going through piecing together the core pain of my PTSD and there is a...

I think this happens in war but also in trauma at home. I had a strong morale to not emotionally blackmail people when I was 19. When my stepfather attacked me, the first thing he said was I had to be like my mum and then, that I had to do what he said, Then he threatened my life in a rage...

Booyah. Well described When can I go to KFC?

Thanks sandra for making this thread :) Thanks Elenor

If the thread was supposed to clarify something, better you put it in the title.

gosh that book sounds just like my mother:O_o:

My psychologist said my mother was an emotional blackmailer. It's not the usual sort though. Most people do something and they get emotionally blackmailed. My dad would do something and I would get emotionally blackmailed. She chucked me out at home at 9 because my dad was being violent. SHe...

I cut them out of my life so I can heal. It has been hard, but so much healthier.

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My psychologist explained that when someone goes through a trauma and doesn't have a break from it, that is when the chemicals of stress going around the brain turn it into PTSD. I consider my mother's invalidation continued emotional blackmail to believe my dad had a reason to abuse me and...

wow, way to go! I'm sure that woman that was mugged was greatful. Amazing you could do that and not freeze.

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If you are pregnant, make sure when you have bub you breastfeed. Breastfeeding acts like an antideppressant and it's marvellous. When I breastfed my son fully for 4 months, my PTSD symtoms went away for 12 months. Congratulations too! It's better than alchohol(the effect of such large amounts...

I lost a few friends to my PTSD. Even some familiy members who thought told me at 19 was I "going into retirement"?. Some other friends don't understand it is the PTSD, not me that makes all my memories of my trauma flood my short term memory when I am tired of frustrated. Frustration is a...

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Best wishes froggie

You must be a wonderful father if your daughter is able to express that she loves and misses her family. I was just thinking about how sometimes PTSD can effect how people love someone. In my 13 years with PTSD, I have a few really healthy and important relationships that I let go because I was...