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Welcome, Flying solo

Hi wounded soul, you are very brave, and it is when you have been brave for so long that things break down. Don't be to hard on yourself. It is wonderful that you are here. You will find there are lots of people with similar experiences on the forum. I have felt numb too sometimes, its a...

Congratulations Nicolette and Anthony. I think it means you did a good job when they are flying.:)

I get that blank out feeling too. I think it might be dissacoatiation and it is a real aspect of PTSD. Is there any way you can take your mum to a psychologist appointment so she can be educated about your mental illness. It might help.I think saying "letting your ex roommate win" is a little...

I couldn't feel the feeling of sympathy until today, so this thread very interesting to me. I think I tended to avoid situations with sympathy until know. The feeling scared me and it would block out with flashbacks and dissacotiation. I would give anything to have felt sympathy freely in...

I think it is a great sign that you are going back on your antideppressants if you think you need to be on them right now. I know what it is like to be on antideppressants, it isn't great, I was on them for 6 years.But I needed to be on them so it was good I was on them to give me a little...

Why don't you ask your psychologist if you have the qualities to be a parent? There are a lot of sane parents who lack the qualities to have a parent, and some people with mental illness have these qualities due being extra sensitive to what they grew up with. Qualities to be a parent include...

I feel so sad with you that you find it hard to be happy. PTSD can make all the emotions messed up a bit, but taking away the happiness part is the hardest one I think. I wasnt' happy for many years, then one day 13 years into therapy I smiled for the first time again not a smile that had...

Welcome Neene

who said that? I'm a bit lost not sure what you are talking about. I was talking about your son. Your post was about him and not you wasn't it? I didn't talk about anyone "not working on themselves" either.:)

There are triggers that I have found difficult. Some of my triggers are frustration and whining, that makes a fun PTSD day with a toddler. lol.

I'm am type 1 without type 1 antibodies. You would be best to see a nutritionist with advice for nutrition. They are very helpful for diabetics. Basically the diabetic can eat anything, as long as there blood sugars are the same at two hours after the meal. Everbody is different with the...

I think some victims of abuse tend to be more soft in their approach to discipline because of the issues with boundary setting. My psychologist once said violence goes down the family tree by skipping a generation. You get one generation that is too powerful and abusive and then the next the...

You can't control how he feels. I've been there at the place where I wasn't even surviving, living under a blanket all day dissacotiating extrememly badly with my diaphram hurting so much from all the hypeventilating and thinking about running out in front of a truck. You can only support him...

Way to go! You did the right thing with the child. One day she won't do this to her children because someone did the right thing in her life. In my experience if someone doesn't agree with you for protecting a child, they are not worth knowing anyway. I'd say it's working well. People who are...

thanks Anthony:)

I would be interested to know the same thing, as I often wondered the long term effects of cortisol too. Going to google emotional hijacking. :)

For example, I had a memory of my mum being yelled at and attacked for being 5 minutes late. After I got this memory back, I could travel on the bus and go out without having panic attacks just before I arrived home again. Every bit helps in a little way for me. : ) Some more than others. That...

I have the same problem in that before I got PTSD, I would be a deer in headlights to innappropriate behavior sometimes or behavior that bothered me. My family has conditioned me to ignore abnormal behavior. I had to report a woman(my dad's new wife I suspect) harassing me to telstra once and it...

Like marriage, rights of passage, ceremonies, births, leaving home or very emotional days. Do they play a role in development of some people's PTSD?

Does anyone else have trouble telling who is toxic and not? I seem to have started having great trouble with telling toxic and non toxic people apart. For some people it may mean that they trust too many, but for me it means I hate everyone equally pretty much. I guess I don't discriminate. This...

When I didn't have PTSD when I was 18, I disbelieved/ wasn't entirely sure if I believed victims getting back memories. lol. I have blocked out a lot of the emotional abuse from both parents and witnessing abuse when I was 9, so my memory of childhood when I was 9 was very much absent. I...

I have rages. My trauma froma violent father attacking me when I was 19 for working and studying and having friends. My personality changed when I was 21, except to block it out I just dissacotiated. I started to feel the anger around the 10th year of therapy.I would literally just change...

lol thanks sterre:)