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Hi Serena, that is the million dollar question. It is hard to sort out physical symptoms from those that are related to PTSD and anxiety issues, sometimes impossible to distinguish without getting tests done. If it is new I would talk to your therapist but also to a medical doctor to rule out...

It is funny (not ha ha funny, coincidental funny) I noticed this just this week. I was having a conversation with a friend who has just realized that she is having PTSD symptoms and flashbacks. Talking with her, I was just letting her talk and I was just there as a sounding board, I could...

I said yes-but only when symptomatic. But the actual answer is Yes- All the time. @cavy I think I could have written that post. What you said about the lower half of the face is how it feels to talk in front of more than one other person. I hate speaking in a crowd, even if it is all people...

Having my words taken out of context.

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I wonder if this could be a symptom of SAD (seasonal affective disorder) if you aren't depressed, sometimes it doesn't develop into depression. Having a "daylight" lamp shining on you for a while, about 30 minutes an hour or two before you want to go to bed. Once you turn it off try and keep...

This is exactly what I was doing. I had to leave this thread yesterday and come back today and read this again before I understood this sentence. Sometimes when I am struggling it feels like my mind just doesn't want to comprehend what is right there no matter how well written the concept is...

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I have been thinking about what you were saying here and I think that maybe I was trying to skip this step. Maybe it would be a lot easier to do this. Now that I am clearing my head and able to see what resentment I had hidden inside I can work on this and then decide what I want to do. Maybe...

I think it all comes down to what is best for your child. Will your child be safe letting your father still be a part of your life, do you trust him not to step over those new boundaries? You have no obligation to your parents to let them anywhere near your child if they are not safe. They...

Hashi, my doctor said that holding all that resentment in is just hurting me. That was the reason I brought this up to her because I want to find a way to forgive my parents for something they didn't know they did. There is a lot of resentment inside me that I haven't been able to articulate...

Wiederhoren, please don't thinkI don't sympathise, I do. I have been in the same position asking the same questions about why a relationship broke up and there are no answers. It comes down to the fact that the other person did not feel the same way you did and made the decision to move on...

Lost again, I do understand and sympathise with supporters and what they go through but as wiederhoren stated in his post, he did not try to understand his exgirlfriend until after he found out she started seeing someone else. That is what I responded to, he sounds like he took her for granted...

It is time to move on. I don't want to make you feel worse but she is seeing someone else, like bell said that is your closure. She needs someone that isn't going to run when life begins to get tough and you have admitted to doing that time and time again. It seems like you only want her when...

My mother will ask if anything has come up with the police investigation once in a while if we are talking on the phone. They do not live close by and I can't drive the 8 hours to go visit in person and they can't drive that far either. Other than that they do not ask. It is like it did not...

I tend to think that it is all tangled up together, the trauma and all the ways it affects your life. Learning coping strategies for the day to day stuff before you start getting to the root of the trauma can make the process much easier to handle.

My psychiatrist wants me to list some good things my parents have done. She is asking me to do this because I have been having a hard time not blaming them for what happened. For many, many years I would make up excuses for them, excuses for why they missed seeing that something so bad had...

Hi Sara, I wasn't in an abusive relationship but I was also just recently diagnosed with PTSD after 43 years. There are times where it all comes crashing back but it is good that you are in therapy. It really helps to get through those episodes and know it will get better. It may not seem like...

INTJ... Not surprising though, I just found a test on the net and I think it nailed me, even the part about interpersonal relationships that I wish wasn't true.

I understand completely. I work for a large organization and we manage office buildings. The office I work in has an underground parkade and because we manage it we have free parking there. It was something of a highlighted point in the perks of working there when I interviewed for the job...

I have been trying to find words to what I have been feeling for a long time and this is that feeling. I am sorry that you can't feel comfortable grounding, there have been many times when I feel the same when I am with other people. Most of the time is because the grounding technique is also...

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