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This is pretty overwhelming right now. There are hundreds of things I want to ask and say, so why is it this hard to know what to actually type? First I want to say thank you so much to the 3 of you for taking your time for me, it means a lot. Then second, that as the day went by today and...

Just crying this morning. Everything I see or do has me thinking about the past...asking all of the same old "why" questions - hopeless, empty and rhetorical. It does not seem like there is a version of my future that resembles the hopes and dreams of the high school kid who got so lost on his...

"I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread." -J.R.R Tolkien (Thanks Bilbo Baggins)

I have so many questions to ask both of you... I don't know where to start. I think I need time to process some of this information from the last two days on here. I have definitely changed somehow, just the sheer sense of belonging here will do that. But its more, I'm learning things...

Somehow reading it here as it's coming from another person's heart makes it more real than having my therapist or family tell me, because they just can't really know. But my heart is absolutely coming out of my chest because something pretty big just hit me. I don't know why I didn't realize...

This perspective is really valuable to me right now, because I'm trying so hard to figure out when I started having these feelings in the first place and then when I subsequently stopped consciously thinking about them and they became personality traits. It also helps me to remember that I've...

I'm being realistic this year. I want one day where I can go to sleep without the belief that I was a bad person that day. I'd like to believe that I am doing things to move in that direction, but it seems like I'm going the other way, currently. Not looking for sympathy, we all have our...

Hello EB, I am in a similar claim-type process right now with the VA in the USA, and have been for years. My story isn't really the point, though. I just mention it for perspective. I'm no professional, just in a similar spot. The point is that you really hit a nail on the head for me when...

Thanks Friday, I have been meaning to look at the cup explanation, and I am very interested to look at the therapy options. I like talk therapy, but I suppose I would also like a weekly massage. Well, probably not, but that's not the point. I don't need the massage, just like I suppose I...

So I typed up a long reply defending my decision to stay with my current therapist, but after all that it comes down to this; I'm scared to change. Of course first, I'm scared that I'm wrong about this, and that my therapist just sees something I don't and that they're only stuck because I am...

Yeah, I don't know if I'll ever be able to remember and feel those moments through my own eyes. I cry everytime I think about saying "yes" when he asked me if it felt good...but its like I'm crying because I feel bad for the poor little boy who had no idea how to even begin to answer that...

Hi Eve. You are right about the dreams, its just that they are a symptom I don't have (thankfully). As for the DSM, I meet that criteria a different way, or something. For this current therapist, the sticking point is that he can't seem to see a link between my symptoms and the past trauma. I...

Thank you zencat. I have been thinking a lot lately about a support group. My therapist actually suggested a retreat, and was going to find info for me, but that was a few months ago. I will look and see if there are any links to that sort of thing here in this group. You are right about the...

Hi there. I have been in and out of therapy for most of my 41 years, and I have no idea what to believe anymore. I have been diagnosed with PTSD by about half of the doctors I've seen, and the others have diagnosed just about everything else, from ADHD to depression to GAD. None of it really...