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This is worse than physical abuse in my experience. Much worse. And there's no scars either so nobody really knows

I wonder how these kinds of campaigns have changed the face of violence in the home statistically. Be an interesting study. What is the aim? To make perpetrators of it feel guilty? To make victims feel less alone? To guilt bystanders into stepping in? I'm a little lost. The money could...

They always say colic, rolls eyes. He is sensing your panic more likely. You NEED support. Mothers are built to take a lot, but not alone. Forget the house work, forget everything except food and sleep. Lay with him, sleep with him. Dont expect so much of yourself this soon.

Aahahhaa your definition on politics is brilliant!

He's here!!!! And Mum seems tickled pink ;) Well done, under sized? That hand looks like a 2 month olds

Welcome :) Your sense of humor will be a wonderful addition. I felt confronted by the term sufferer when I arrived also, having had a counsellor that demanded I use the term survivor as often as was physically possible. Over time I've come to see it as permission to acknowledge I am not...

Hahahahaha! God I love your candour. Sex has variously been torture, a tool for manipulation, a way to feel desirable, a fear, a gift to another, a way to punish the self, a pleasure and more often a chore throughout my life. Currently have no desire for any of the above mentioned results...

:( I apologise for the way my comment seemed to you. It was not my intent to shame anyone at all, only my personal experience of talk therapy. I had been thinking a lot about how far backward id taken myself in recent years, and thinking critically I realised id stopped trying. I was being...

I think this is the battle of many of us who have lived with untreated ptsd. Start small. One thing at a time. What's the most self destructive thing you do? Start taking steps to stop it. For me it was quitting drinking. And it was a head turner, took about 4 weeks for my head to clear and...

Well it depends, do you know with 100% confidence that he is cheating? When my husband left he turned to his old female friends for guidance from a female perspective, advice for how to talk to me and support that his male friends couldn't offer because men dont talk like that. I saw it as...

Oh so true!! When I was first diagnosed in my teens I thought a magical pill and laying on a couch telling a doctor 'how I feel about my parents' would have me fixed in a few weeks. First, I was totally ripped off. There was no couch! Second, every bloody medication I tried made me worse...

Start a go fund me @Casey_03. Tell your story straight. When the time comes, you can use the cash to either take baby back to the US where adoption will be safe, ethical and provide your child with the best start in life, or, change your mind about adoption and use it to set you both up for a...

Innocent!

The hilarious things that come from my 10 year olds mouth. I post them on fb, and the memories app bought this one back for me today. Still as funny to me now as it was 2 years ago. Listening to the news in the car radio when its mentioned that Microsoft is offering a large reward to anyone...

Dont be guilted into doing/not doing something by those not living your life Mal. Yeah, you cant drink the rest of your life away, but you already know that. Dont need anyone here to advise you. I do hope though you dont allow hubby to tread on you at this point. All the pretty words and...

Haha you big bad drug addict you. In all seriousness though, I have a friend who uses codeine as a relaxant. She might a box of 50 every 6 months or so and uses as needed. Personally I'm more inclined to that kind of medicating than the one pill a day for the rest of your natural life that...

Ugh. This is my Mother. Or I should say was because she is improving. Always the poor me, and always telling any poor bastard stupid enough to ask how she was her entire life story. I was so ashamed of her doing that while growing up, check out chick was the worst! Took me til I was 25 to...

I'm sorry you had to deal with that @Ocean5. Your father was a selfish person for dragging you into his crap when you were so young. Pisses me off to no end when a parent steps over a line like that purely to justify their own actions. What help is it to a child?

Part of me wants to advise getting your medication right first simply because that will take a while and you'll be up and down for some time til you adjust. Then practical me says, get back on the horse while you can. I was forced to take a job that was totally out of my comfort zone for...

Bet this ones been posted a million and one times. 'Just take deep breath's'

Learning to change thinking patterns and associated behaviours that have developed over a lifetime is HARD WORK. Especially when your brain is going 'no way will something this simple and straightforward work' The key to begin with is commitment. Forcing yourself to stop, consider and then...

Confused. Both at this thread somehow getting mixed into the association thread, and at my life in general. Feel like quitting my job, selling all my stuff, packing the car and my 10 yr old up and going on an adventure. To anywhere they don't know my name. Where I can be who I want and...

As @SheilaKathy said, I do not really know life before PTSD. I would like very much to one day, meet me. Here it feels like confusion. And fear. Deep guttural irrational fear. Fear I cannot run away or hide from. It feels like all these emotions, swirling in a circular fashion all meshing...

Usually with logic. I'm not great at comforting, myself or others. Question everything. Pick it apart until it no longer makes 'sense' and commonsense has returned. Not always effective, but about 90% successful IF its caught early.

Hahahaha! A belly laugh is just what I needed tonight. And in usual style @Cashew delivers. Heading off to bed with an image of adult diapers in my head, cheers :)