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As an aside, it's also weird as I'm slowly getting some of this feeling/deep muscle mobility back; well, I think these symptoms are from getting some of these area more "connected" -- it might be lots of myofascial stuff? -- itching, need for stretching but not like a normal muscle stretch...

@PTSDbegone -- you are absolutely worthy of the attention of these folks; your life, comfort, well-being, and long-term happiness are worthy of many more appointments over time too! It can totally be overwhelming for lots of us, for reasons related to the original injuries. Maybe, though, you...

Hello; it occurred to me that some people might find it unclear whether you mean PTSD that already exists being "triggered" by such social media content, or PTSD being initially caused by such content -- perhaps you could clarify.

Hello, and welcome back! I am glad you found a way to write!

Hi @Chava -- that is definitely progress, you are doing really difficult work and it is a very good thing; you deserve a smoothly working, pain-free body -- and "more free from pain" is good too, any progress is excellent. I don't know, but is having the exact opposite problem related possibly...

I think there can be several levels... sometimes we minimize the significance of events -- maybe people around us minimized it at the time, sometimes for a long time... @Trauma -- do you have a good therapist, who understands dissociation and related issues? What you wrote feels like...

I will be sending you positive thoughts. A lot of other very good people and this group are actually all in the same world, including you! -- even though it might not seem that way in such times.

It hard to know what age a lot of stuff was for me; memories are very few even for middle childhood, and these days even last week is foggy. I am hoping things will get a bit more clear with work, the idea of permanent damage is scary to me.

A trick that people here taught me: journal! Write regularly how you're feeling, what's going on, the issues you'd like to deal with with the T if only you could remember them in the office... Then, hand the T the journal to read! My brain usually refuses to even remember what I wrote until she...

Hi @FridayJones ! I do feel great walking in to see one doctor I go to; she's quite warm, I have known her for years... Oddly, for me, that means sometimes my trauma-related feelings will actually come up in her presence. I guess my "normal" tendency is to keep it separate from my functioning...

The title I wrote is strange, but I think I'm having trouble believing my own experience for long, when talking to medical folks and other times. It's like the world with those experiences can't be true, or it doesn't feel safe for me to say it's true, when talking about physical issues in...

How about writing on a post card, "please explain what you're doing before doing" and taping it to the pillow next to your head? I have a different issue with my PT; I forget everything that was going on physically and think I'm making it up, or it wasn't that bad (or other variations on tapes...

I partly agree with what others have written here at various levels... I am having an additional feeling about it though. The particular service that we need a T to provide involves trust. Often our ability to trust has really been damaged in some way with PTSD. So it doesn't really matter what...

... in fact, I totally believe the last of the 3 you mention, partly believe the second (I hope you aren't implying that her life is amazing while she's having the waking nightmares?), but the "no symptoms of PTSD" part... I don't know where you are getting that one! I don't want to write...

I'm going to have to strongly disagree with this... People who experienced chronic trauma can sometimes end up with a brain that's really good at separating out the trauma into dissociated "parts" of the personality; their brains actually show *more* grey matter in certain areas that have...

Hmmm, exercise is supposed to increase the telomere length though; so maybe this is another reason for us to do our best to exercise regularly... I'd be happier if the researchers had been a little more specific in what mediated the relationship though, like cortisol or lack of sleep or whatever...

@ihateusernames -- some Ts recognize that the list of diagnoses changes every couple of years, so they don't throw the words around... The diagnoses tend to be surface descriptions sometimes too... symptom lists not underlying causes, and some of us have somewhat shifting symptoms (or greatly...

A huge number of people experience "Criterion A" events without developing PTSD and related dissociative things... I have read various places that having a good social support system, or the history of good support in childhood, are protective against developing the disorders. To me intuitively...

Thanks for posting that, Stenni. It seems to overlap a lot, intuitively at least, with "DDNOS", secondary structural dissociation... etc. Why do people have to keep coming up with new disorder names all the time? Do they get their names on it then? Argh. Also, it doesn't seem to mention...

That is strange about your balance. I hope you can talk to the doctor soon about the seroquel. Maybe some stretches? Do you ever do any yoga? I sometimes find those things helpful for balance. Be good to yourself!

I hope you can find a better primary care doc then! Is that possible? You deserve good health care, and at some point you might be too sick to fight bigoted idiots about reality, and get worse or die because of their attitude.

I am glad that you both survived; these events cannot be helpful in feeling safe... very sorry this happened. I guess lawsuits of incompetent, bigoted doctors are more possible in some countries than others...

@desiderata310 I hope you are getting some restful sleep with your warm furry dog... hang in there, your brain and systems need time to recover from the lack of sleep -- and it sounds like you have flashback-related things to deal with too, so it's complicated... but safety and sleep, hopefully...

Well, now I can't get this image out of my mind... #3 but a pile so huge that the person almost dies under it and they need to use avalanche rescue techniques...?

There are several related threads; here is the most recent that I know of. (I haven't had this with hands, rather shoulder and back, some with foot; all on left I think.) https://www.myptsd.com/threads/dissociation-blocking-losing-track-of-a-body-part.53196/#post-850130