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I'm so sorry Gizmo, my heart just broke for you then. How sad for you to have that happen to your daughter. My mum went through this. Just tell her that my mum went back, and she ended up in hospital for a month and he went to jail. It is the going back that should also not happen. She should...

I don't know Gizmo, You have a lot of beautiful qualities. : ) Your children will have learned from them and have also been lucky to have a mum at home, it is hard for parents to work sometimes especially being that it is only recently that workplaces have become friendly to mothers and good...

It really depends on the family I think. I think my ultimate role model, a NPWS ranger and his wife who also worked as a professional had 2 really well adjusted kids even though they both worked. I can't do that because I don't have the qualites to manage so much. I did 20 hours a week though...

I was a stay at home mum for 2 years. I didn't get acknowledged and did all the breastfeeding and the baby brain thing. I started working when my bub was 2, I was acknowledged and got paid, I'm still doing the parenting as well. Probably the best place for acknowledgement for parenting is...

I think you will find even people without PTSD who have a degree find it hard to get jobs. My husband works with someone who earns way above average in a field he trained to work in. He couldn't get a job in that field, so when he graduated, he started working as a cleaner in the same...

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I am determined, strong and I try not to hurt other's.

I agree Gizmo. : ) The physical changes to the brain are pretty awesome.

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I tell my PTSD to F##k off. Sometimes it has helped and then I have gone to work. Does that count? It is sort of positive because it lets my positive sides come through all the strangling horrible sides.

I use to find it very hard to get close to people, similar to trusting people. I did get to a point where I could get close to people, although sporadically. I even got as brave as to reveal to all my friends that I had PTSD and was abused. I told my co-workers I had PTSD and they have been...

I think as a survivor of PTSD it is important to feel the support after a trauma. And there is a lot of support within the general community for the good fire-fighters in Tasmania at the moment so that is good. Having support from your own circle of family and your fire-fighting team would be...

I have noticed that I have a big problem with multi-tasking. For example, if I try to do work I am fine, but if I have conversations with people while working, I start to come unglued. It feels like I get overloaded mentally. I wait until my break and then I can talk to people and I am fine. I...

When the stress from my trauma damaged my brain, it polarised most of my positive feelings, and also polarised the fractions of my personality. Polarising is where rather than feel a middle of a feeling you experience the extreme ends. So rather than feel a sunshine part of my personality that...

Thanks safenow. I don't have MPD. I have PTSD with dissacotiation into personalty like states. My dissacotiation can be like personalities, but I am aware when I am dissacotiating. There I suppose is a lot of similarities though, and it is not far of a keystroke.

I was unable to work for 12 years after I got PTSD. Except for one time I worked for 20 hours a week for a month, but it traumatised me so much I could not return to the same place after this. I wasn't ready to work until 13 years into therapy. When I was 13 years into therapy, I started...

I'm a diabetic with PTSD, so I try to eat low GI all the time. To make weetbix lower GI I add 1/2 tblespoon dry soy protein to my cereal. A diabetes educator told me protein(small amount) lowers my spike of sugar after my meal because the liver is processing the protein not the glucose. Fat...

She was a switchboard operator? I thought she was the nurse like the newspapers have all said.Wow so she had even less responsibility than I thought. I was talking about this with my husband last night. And I think that what she did is more likely to make the radio personalities commit suicide...

Thanks Albatross. What a great description, It does feel like jumping in the deep end:laugh:. Thanks Fia :)

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Hi Cristy, You are brave and deserve understanding. I hope you find some support on the forum. : )

I have integrated the main personalities in my trauma in the last 3 years. Anti- gentle kindergarten teacher personality Anti-stable working gentleman pop/fun going to Sea World personality Anti- Mrs W at the farm who raised me to be a lady personality. Anti-RW crush at school...

I have had a lot of experiences with memories returning. I've never been able to get the memories back on my own, they have always come after a 'link' was discovered by my psychologist. A link is where the psychologist finds an emotion and puts it in my conscious before I realise it. Then the...

I grow tomato plants, bean plants and basil plants. I bake bananna muffins, I made an awesome Paso cake for a birthday once, I put my hobby energy into my son and work so that must mean I need more time.:)

You should feel comfortable and trust the therapist you work with I think. I don't know much about this EDMR, but I started to heal when I started to deal with shallower but still painful memories straight away. Although my therapist wouldn't tackle the deeper levels of trauma until 12 years...