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Yes it can. My biggest trigger from my PTSD was the reason I was attacked, talking to bosses at work. I wasn't able to work for 13 years, and have now held a part time job for 1 year and 1 month. I also don't seem to have any trouble talking to my boss, overdoing the talking bit I think. I was...

1 Grateful for the ability to have a family at home. Grateful for the ability to go to work Grateful for having some financial stability due to my job 2 Positive experience- I have had the opportunity to make spinach and chicken slow cooker curry today. 3 I exercised for 20 hours in an active...

LhasaLover. There was a few difference between this job and others, but mostly it was the work I had done with my PTSD that made the difference. In this job, I had started processing my trauma, which was related to work. My psychologist said I spent 12 years processing things around my trauma...

Thanks. I think it is amazing how much PTSD one can overcome.

My PTSD came a year after my dad went into a life threatening rage after I spent a morning working with my supervisor on a cattle stud. My Supervisor and I were talking about 'success' stuff. My step-dad car's drove past the paddocks I was working in. After cattle-work, I came home in the...

I didn't have withdrawals with all my medications. Actually only one for me had withdrawals, which was Aropax which I am sure is worse than coming off hard drugs. I have never felt so sick in my life. Nothing helped, I stayed in bed for 2 days for the withdrawal symptoms to pass.

I disagree with your doctor. I was on Zoloft and then on other anti-depressants for 6 years for severe PTSD symptoms. I was agoraphobic, couldn't work which was the main trigger, and unable to get out from under a blanket during the day. The anti-depressants weren't needed anymore because I...

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My sister also can't afford therapy, and she found a free one at the hospital. Is it possible there are alternatives like that to where you live? I also saw a doctor/ psychologists once with double degrees and you can bulk bill on medicare. These are just a few ideas, that may or may not be...

I had the same situation you had 13 years ago. I tried unsuccessfully for a therapist for 4 years. I had tried hypnotists, psychologists, psychiatrists, one psychologist misdiagnosed me with avoidance personality disorder and told me I was just after someone to get disability payment from. I...

Best wishes Gizmo.:)

lol these are cool. : ) Love the parking metre. Although, sorry a3a2 that your bushy tail knocked you out.

awesome, thanks for sharing Britt.

:D That sounds so cool.

That's awesome. : ) Thanks for sharing.

I painted my Pop's car and trailer with black tyre paint all up the sides on every side. Then I felt bad I hadn't done something as nice for my nan, so I gave her a flower. At 19 I stole a fire alarm off an abandoned development with my friends as security was patrolling. It is now in the fire...

Inspire me. I thought it would be nice to share for those might have been fun, bright eyed and bushy tailed, but lost it through living through childhood trauma. I lost my bright eyed bushy tailedness when I was 4 years old.

I can relate to that to, although I put therapist and husband into the category of people I could get close too. I couldn't get close to anyone else. Or rather I couldn't feel any emotion about getting close to anyone else. I was numb. I guess it is different for everyone, but being close to...

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I think you can recover a lot with the right therapist. You will start of really really bad, and then it is like a long journey. You will go backwards and forwards A LOT. It's a bit like the game snakes and ladders I have thought. You will learn to appreciate small goals which is a good thing...

I rock! :)

You are doing well Gizmo : ) (((hugs)))

How awesomely strong is your daughter. She must get it from you;).

I hope that he leaves her daughter alone, you take care. : )

I don't know if this helps, but my mom said she left my stepdad because she saw my strength. Maybe seeing the strength of her children would help comfort her, because they are victims of this domestic violence too. My neighbor was violent to his female partner once a week once. Ambulances...