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Thank you @Nicolette :)

I don't know what is happening to my post, there is a big chunk of it not showing up and yet it is there when I open the edit screen.

Thanks for putting it like that. I sometimes feel that it is a disadvantage, I don't always see the bad in people until it is too late. A lot of people take advantage of that, more than I want to admit. I want to believe that there are more good people than bad, just not ones that want to be...

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Sometimes I just don't have the words. I have been writing and rewriting a response and everything comes out jumbled. No one has told me that they don't believe me. It is myself that sometimes has doubts but I know it happened. The thing that keeps the confusion going is that no one...

Hi eav, I am so sorry that you have to go through this. I was there about a year ago, not with the EMDR but with the memories flooding back after 40 years. What helped for me was joining this forum and talking to therapists. I have a diary here and one on paper, I just kept writing about all...

Nobody on here has suggested vitamin D yet. I used to live in the arctic in Canada and a lot of people had this disorder, so much so that a lot of companies began to invest in the lights placed where the employees work most often and in break rooms SAD can also be caused by a vitamin...

I have had flashbacks that put me right back into being a very young child. In my active memory, the ones that were not interrupted by trauma, there was only one incident that happened that the flashbacks lead to. Everything that I have remembered in the past 2 years, the actual memory that...

Have you tried a washing booster? Maybe borax or a washing soda? It could be that your water is on the hard side and clothes don't clean as well as in soft water. The washing soda helps to soften water and borax is a detergent booster.

I am sorry that something like that happened to you. I can't imagine what that must have been like. I am glad you are able to be on the forum I would recommend that you talk to a trauma therapist. If you feel that you are having symptoms talking to a therapist as soon as you can may be able...

I have this too. I hate being noticed. When I was abducted the man kept telling me how he would watch me. I blocked that out for 40 years but I always hated being noticed for anything. I kept sabotaging myself whenever I had a chance to excel at anything. I would always end up in the middle...

I have been in group where there was a trigger for me. I sat through it but I was a mess and had to calm down after group and I spoke to the moderator. She said that I could have just walked out of group for awhile until the exercise was done. In groups like I was in triggers are common and...

Congratulations Nabii! That is wonderful news:)

I was officially diagnosed by a psychiatrist earlier this year. It took a long time to get an appointment and I was in crisis mode for a long time. I spoke to therapists and medical doctors before and while no one could confirm it, they did encourage me to keep on researching PTSD and be on...

I would love to be in it. Couldn't last year, but it looked like a lot of fun.

Hmmmm... there were words in my post when I hit "Post Reply" 5 hours ago. Now it is just blank.... Anyways, I voted that it was helpful, it began to make my life make sense. So many things that I did and thought and everything I felt that contradicted what a "normal" person did began to fall...

Ditto on what everyone else said. I had blocked all the traumatic parts out until recently. Once they all came flooding back my life began to make sense but there was still so much I didn't understand. It took a long time before I could see a psychiatrist to get the official diagnosis but so...

Big Bear, there is an icon up beside the address bar that you have to click on. It looks like a little shield ( beside the https:) click on it and then click on the drop down menu beside "Keep Blocking" and choose "Disable Protection". That should open the map.

I have always believed that PTSD is a condition that could be developed from any type of trauma. Not all sexual abuse victims develop PTSD even if different people had the same type of trauma. I am beginning a support group for sexual abuse in a couple of weeks. I was in it a year and a half...

Hi cmjl, I think this is a situation that can really depend on the person. When I get frustrated or don't agree with something someone says I just close up so I can't really give advice on your girlfriend. It seems to me that what you need to establish are boundaries and how to handle them...

I have been thinking about this a lot the past couple of months. I have no idea who I would have been if the trauma did not happen, there was no "before", I was 5 when it happened. I hate that all this time later I still have to learn how to live with the consequences, both physical and...

"Smiles are free! We are giving them away today! See, she has one." And on and on it went. I just went into the shop to see what kind of moisturizer they had. I turned and left. I will smile when I feel like it and I will ask for help when I need it. Just back off a little bit and let me...

The MRI went OK, it didn't bother me at all. They put a cage over my head to keep it still but there was a big mirror attached to it so it was like looking through a window at the office where the technicians were working. I wish the nurse had mentioned that when she called, all this anxiety...