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I also have some experience with being brainwashed by psychos. Good news is though you can recover from it. ((hugs)))

Sometimes you get addicted to aspects of of abusive environments when you live in them for so long. I like chaos. It's just one thing that I grew up with that became my comfort zone. I have a quote for you It reminds me of the quote"You can’t change the past, but you can ruin the present by...

I'm angry today because I lost my promising career because some selfish a##hole decided his future life of pettifilia chances was more important and his wife for supporting him because she was an idiot. I could have been enriched and rich dammit, I could have been a scientist. I'm angry because...

Pretty common symptom. Hands up to that one. Its hard for me to make friends, and when I want to my brain figures out creative ways to push them away. At least it is putting energy into something I suppose. lol. It can improve though with time. I made two real friends last year that I saw...

I always found that talking about it and linking things together reduced my triggers. Being a lone sounds like a bad trigger. I suppose it is the opposite to not wanting to be with people at all because of a fear of getting close. I havent' had being alone as a bad trigger, but I find not...

welcome to the forum. It sounds awful what you and your wife have been through. It sounds like something has triggered your wife to go back to old memories and her PTSD has come on with full force. I don't think your wife is able to make good decisions at the moment. But maybe you can make...

Yeah to the book with the weedeater cord, we should petition to have the author strapped to a pole and be "weed-eated". I'm all for weeding out books about violence. That includes using weedeater to strap children to me comes under the same category as that book that came out on amazon for...

You need to get out ASAP so you and your daughter can start to heal. I have a mother that I have a similar situation with, she and my abusive father were like a team of abuse and emotional blackmailing. Although she wasn't narcisstic like your mum, It was so bad, I can not separate the abuse and...

I have memory problems too, I compensate for it by having multiple alarms. It tends to be a common trait with PTSD. It gets worse the more therapy I get I think.

No don't feel shame. I once had an operation and the anesthetist came to close to me leg. I was trying to fix my gown strings and accidently hit him in the goolies. So I got one anesthetist back for you. My husband has an allergic reaction to pethidine and found out having some and going beserk...

Talking didn't help me if it was 'just talking' to a councellor. But finding the right therapist to do 'linking' where emotions that are connected to repressed emotions from trauma did help. If this happens you should burst into tears and feel a release of emotions(in my experience). It is a...

June bug is lovely

I've had a bit of hit miss success with therapists.I find some don't know how or don't want to delve into linking or emotional memory stuff. About 3 out of 12 psychologists I have seen have helped me made progress. I usually ring around for one that does psycodynamic therapy and 'linking'. That...

You don't have to be on meds forever. I was on a high dose of antideppressant for the first 6 years of my PTSD, and with psycotherapy I improved enough to get off the antideppessants. I now function well enough to raise a toddler pretty ok (he's not a big trigger for me) as well as taking care...

As a type 1 diabetic with PTSD, I keep a close eye on my blood sugars and find some things about hypoglacemia do fit with some aspects of PTSD. Not like hypoglacemia causes PTSD. I have found my blood sugars were pretty stable and occasionally going high when I dealt with the overlying issues of...

I was wondering if anyone else is dealing with the damage of a parent isolating you. When I was a child, I noticed my dad would go into a violent rage in my family towards my mum and me often came as soon as I started to develop lots of friends. When the violence happened my mum would get angry...

https://www.ptsdforum.org/c/media/jason-mcelwain-autistic-basketball-player.555/ Not sure where to post. It is a video about an autistic boy who is in a basketball team.

Charlie Bear. He's 3 year's older than me, teddy bear that I called charlie when I was 3.

My therapist has been talking about that void left by trauma's when they have been dealt with. She has said that eventually I will be able to find a way to heal. She says she heals by creating a huge garden and adding to it all the time. I'm not sure I'm quite there where the void is. I wonder...

http://rufusmay.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=98&Itemid=33 This is a cool website that I found helpful. The website is about having personality moods/ multiple personalitys at different levels.

That's awesome BloomInWinter

My therapist says the pain has got to come out. I guess this is what the grief is all about. Grief to me feels like getting sucked into a well where I alternate between not feeling any emotions and numb to having intense emotions that I can't bare.

I often think being sensitive can be a good thing too in certain circumstances. My ancestor called James Ruse was a first fleet convict who was literate. He was sensitive like me. He wrote this. My mother reread thy tenderly With me she took much pain And when I arrived in this colony I sowed...

Interesting article. Thanks for the read. I like how they say that I'm starting to realise the personality traits that come out in a person after being through an abusive family environment have multiplied my grief to simple things. I had a gentle personality before I was 19 which ignored my...

I wish my parents had taught me what it was like to not be treated like a commodity. A commodity to me feed and grow them, but no hugs kisses and use them as slaves.