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    Medical Illness creating more illness

    I was thinking you were referring to things like anxiety causing stomach issues, etc..or Fibro from stress? Fungal infection in feet. Have you tried rubbing 1/2 water and 1/2 lemon juice on them liberally each night and see if it starts to go away?
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    Disabled Working Adult -definition?

    But what about if you have a mixture of psychological issues along with spinal, and Fibro? Mine such a mixed bag. Sadly I may be diagnosed with MS soon. That is so very scary.
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    Disabled Working Adult -definition?

    Yes, I am also very confused by that "total and permanent" because I am hoping to file a bankruptcy successful and discharge college debt, and the is their definition they call it for attempting to do that kind of college debt charge off too.
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    How do i continue working?

    I would talk with an attorney. You are in a hostile work environment and it's clearly unfair.
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    Striving to be more successful in all ways....

    This is a very major life long battle for me. I take 2-3 steps forward at random, then 1-2 steps back it seems. I have 3 college degrees(the last one is a retrain). I want to apply for grad school, but I have financial problems slowing this down. I'm also very concerned about my own confidence...
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    Social security drama

    And more confusion... I'm applying for SSI, and I'm being allowed temporarily to stay with Family. The SSI wants details of housing. And I've been so homeless most of 6.5 years. How do I explain, what a mess, that I may not be were I am very long, and have no idea where I may end up? Then, they...
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    Am i the only frequent mover

    19 times in 10 years. Yeah, I bet I've done that. So sad! So Frustrating. I just want to feel safe in housing. Even when I had an Apt. for a year alone, it was in an aweful complex I hated that was for the poor and foster kids ran away and the cops would show up wandering around looking for...
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    Is there an appropriate way to tell someone that something they say is making you anxious...?

    Maybe you can find a food pantry, if they are worried about running out of food.
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    I'm so frightened to ring my son! how can i be braver?

    You can plan to be the best role model of NON narcississtic behavior that you can so he knows he doesn't have to be the way his dad is...
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    Fibro Axis something causes low cortisol from stress?

    I have been reading a lot around my Fibro and Cortisol issues and how they are tied to high stress...something about an Axis issue(maybe regulation control of the adrenals gets off-permanently after so much drama/trauma). Do others have this as a diagnosis? I will keep pushing Dr.'s for adrenal...
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    Do we tell bf or gf that we have ptsd? or not?

    Ok, so I wasn't admitting I had PTSD up until now. I kept putting the idea out of my head(yes denail isn't just a river), and acted pretty weird on many occasions! I'm interested in pushing for a relationship with somone. He has been through a lot. I've attracted several men whom act like they...
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    Hurting right now - mistreated by family, waiting on low income housing

    I am unable to fully escape exposure to my family of origin with issues over need for survival/poverty. I am struggling a lot and went through a lot if mistreatment un shelters over the past few years as well. I am really frustrated today. My sibling doessn't seem to care if I get my SsI and...
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    Social security drama

    I am very upset. The social security ap. I have been doing was 70% done and I wasn't going to have it together for A while. It said i have until May, 18th. I got a voucemail stating to call them back. Now the next thing I got a form demanding more unfo. Stating that I spoke with their Rep...
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    What is hypervigilance like for you?

    I had a car hit me at age five. I suspect that i had a cranial nerve injury that caused heightened sensitivity to sound which actually helped trigger more child abuse. And I read that I scanned the "room repeatedly" in notes from a psychiatrist. I think it is Rude to stare at people you are...
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    Ptsd with back problems...

    So I have real physical issues in top of PTSD. Fibro, neck injuries, ADHD, I use to be confident enout to do a few types of Customer Service jobs. But now since I have back issues, chronic pain.... I fear verbal abuse if I cannot lift a box without injuring myself and I fear high stress...
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    Were most if us seriously abused as kids,?

    Thanks for sharing. I think I am still struggling to name my traumas as traumas because almost all of it is psychological.
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    Were most if us seriously abused as kids,?

    I am still pretty new to this site. I have admitted I have an Avoidance Personality Disorder Diagnosis. I really havent had many safe places to get into the fact that my childhood was full if psychological trauma and drama. My dad, a toxic threatening alcoholic narcissist and mom very...
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    Questions about avoidance

    I guess for me it is like I have a panic button that shuts me down. I know that if I try to continue to talk hings out I will expect posdible verbal abuse or shaming or threats or fear I will loose control and start screaming and damage the relationship further. Even though I have never...
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    Am i the only frequent mover

    Since I was 18 and now I am 45, I tend to move around frequently and find housung with other too upsetting, or unsafe. I feel like a magnet to drama people. And l like I run and run and run to new rental after new place to live. It was only once that I had my own studio apt. Aline for a...
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    What Are You Feeling Today? Not Thinking, Rather Feeling! Can You Identify Yours?

    I am somewhat content. I have a cold though. I need to go out and spend quiet time at the library away from noisy family and work on papers too.
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    Is this me, my thinking? my avpd or ptsd

    Please stop trying to analyzw and fix.
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    Making better sense of it all

    Ok so in short. Born of a toxic alcoholic Narcissist and a codependent, ocd, and other MI issued parents. Sibling 1 drugs, abusive, out of control, anxiety ridden, Sibling 2. Narcisstic features, emotionally unavailable, robotic like, unable to bond well, avoided me all during my...
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    Is this me, my thinking? my avpd or ptsd

    I have been there 24 hrs. The game began before I arrived.
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    Is this me, my thinking? my avpd or ptsd

    I had to sort this out. I suffered all of my adult life. I thought I misunderstood them due to Avpd. But I h AZ d to see if I could put the behavior into a real category. I looked up passive agression. And while that was part of it. I then hit on the phrase "covert bullying" If I had the...
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    Is this me, my thinking? my avpd or ptsd

    I was trying to make more sense, I was hoping It was just me. And I was wrong... I have stayed temporarily many times with a family member... And the moment I am suppose to be welcome.... Both adults start asking me questions about when I am leaving like in passive aggressive ways. All it...
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