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I just woke up from a very, very vivid dream - fragmented nightmares, where I felt very scared and out of control - really just pointless fragments about nothing, very fear based and random images of being trapped and being in danger. I slept for like 40 minutes, I remember waking up a few...

Hey shimmerz :)! Actually, the research shows that it's not actually that effective; it helps in around 50% of cases; have you read the book The Body Keeps The Score? The researcher/author explains why he thinks it isn't helpful in great detail and argues that we take a physical approach...

EFT has helped me alot as well...I don't really trust the lack of empirical based studies online...but it's really worked for me!!

Self applied somatic experiencing has really, really helped my fear and anxiety. Meditation - self-compassion and breathing. Having a really beautiful, kind-hearted boyfriend who really takes great care of me and who I feel really safe and happy with (like he's sometimes one of the only people...

Welcome Emmanuel, good to hear your story :). I'm sorry to hear about your struggles.

I really enjoy cooking and baking. I love finding new healthy recipes and putting something together: I love the simplicity, the creativity, the challenge, the self-care in making a new healthy meal. It's good fun! There's also sometimes nothing nicer than baking up some (healthyish) banana...

Aww, lovely! Congratulations :D!

Beautiful, love your spirit :)!

So sorry, it sounds horrible - really hope it gets better for you.

Hello, I'm so sorry, that sounds absolutely terrifying :(!! Maybe it was an internal trigger? Something very quick that flashed in your mind in response to being somewhere new or some old association? Sometimes I get triggered and panicky somewhere and the next day I'm absolutely fine, so it...

Welcome :)!! Congrats on entering therapy, really hope it goes well for you :)!

Thanks @Silver! I also love meditating; I think it's helping me to focus on welcoming what is going on in my mind, rather than being so shit scared of it and feeling like a victim; I need to keep telling myself that I'm strong and in control and that I am not a victim of it. I agree with you...

Well, sometimes I feel like I am on a variety of cool drug trips haha. A lot of the time, the intense mood swings, dissociation and whatever else are all pretty scary; but sometimes, I can weirdly just relax into them and appreciate their positive qualities and they can be quite fun. Sometimes I...

Thanks so much for your wisdom @Friday! You are all so knowledgeable here, this place is such a sanctuary :). Yeah, I do remember having these before PTSD, and knew in the past it was just me falling asleep; but with the PTSD and the panic disorder (and fears of 'losing my mind', so to speak) -...

Hi Everyone, When I'm falling asleep; before I had PTSD, I used to get like kind of like 'dream' like images wonder into my mind when I was falling asleep/half asleep; if that makes sense, so like unregulated fragments. Since developing PTSD, and general exhaustion, when I try and sleep - it...

Thanks so much @NatBird :)! So helpful! I find exercise very exhausting right now, but I do do something minimally, like freestyle yoga or some somatic exercises; they really help calm me and help me sleep :).

Should I try and sleep when I feel so exhausted? Even when it's during the day? I know normally they advise not to do that but I'm so exhausted man haha. Any advice for how to help this?

Hi everyone! I could not find anything online about this the other night - for the liiiifeeee of me. But I've read it's a common thing with panic disorder, when you find some relief or avert the feelings of panic, you can sometimes feel euphoric. This is when it happens for me, so hopefully I'll...

No, I'm not :). I'm not sure, all this has just started this week. Sometimes I feel 'normal', other times very depressed - my main emotion is fear... it's all a roller coaster

Hey Silver, thank you so much!! Okay, brilliant, so it can be a PTSD thing? It's normally when I feel some relief or manage my symptoms well/have an epihany via tapping or something. Maybe it's the tapping that is doing it... I swear I found an article that said some people get mania with...

Hi Silver, I was just trying to define it better because I don't think I conveyed it in a way that people got? I think people thought I meant happiness :) when I meant mania

Does anyone sometimes get this? I normally get it when I feel that I have some relief from my panic or feel like my stymptoms will get better; I suddenly start feeling really high and on top of the world and then I will come back down. It lasts a few hours or so? I read once that it was the...

Really? Coz of the exercise?

Thanks everyone for your help :)! My thoughts are sometimes just like horrible images - when I'm exhausted, like creepy spiders or something - can that be PTSD too? Some EMDR retraumatised me and it was all about creepy, scary images. Man, I just feel so scared ALL the time and don't know how to...

Hi everyone, Does anyone else have 'nightmare' thoughts when they are feeling really stressed? Like they will look at things and seeing them as scary/dangerous/nightmareish? Like I will look at a kitchen knife and see it as dangerous or when I was dissociating and having a pancked flashback...