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I mean is it possible for someone to experience more than five traumatic events all before they even turn 30 years old? I feel like I have too much trauma for anyone else to deal with and help me heal.

I don’t have an official diagnosis of PTSD but I have been exhibiting the symptoms of it ever since I had graduated high school and moved into the group home. The first sign that I had it was the fact I tend to freak out if I saw someone snapping a rubber band. I’ll start flinching with every...

I was actually 18 when it happened. But still no one ever gave me a chance to say a thing in high school. Because I kept hearing “Shut up! No one cares “ I just stopped talking all together unless it was required for me to talk. No one would even let me be an Indy with a different viewpoint. I...

Was I selfish when I wanted someone to notice that something was wrong and just talk and listen to me for once? I often feel like I was and that need to be punished for it.

I rarely ever talk about the thoughts I had stemming from the car accident because of how highly usual it is as I was not in the car when it happened and it were the flyers for the fundraisers that started the trauma for me. No one cared about me back in high school and that transferred into...

I’m at perfect peace with my autism. When I got diagnosed with it, a lot of things about me and what would happen made so much more sense. The meltdowns weren’t for attention like the school psychologist had claimed and whenever I would stop working during timed tests, it was because I was “lazy...

My abuser used her power as a caregiver to verbally and emotionally abuse me with some physical abuse and used my autism against me all the time. I was so afraid to show any emotions in front of her because if I cried , she’d say that I was faking it and trying to make her feel bad. But if I...

I try so hard to not fall apart and have a meltdown and total body shutdown when I’m getting constant flashbacks. Certain sentences and phrases can trigger me easily. I keep silent about my trauma because I don’t know who can actually understand what I’m going through.

I’m on,y asking because sometimes I think I have too much of it for anyone else to deal with. I’ve been verbally and emotionally abused, lightly physically abused, victim blamed for being bullied and sexually assaulted, I have trauma from an aborted suicide attempt, trauma over thoughts stemming...

Honestly, being a victim of sexual assault with little chances of ever getting justice has made me start to wish harm on my attacker. Not death but still stuff that would seriously injure him and leave permanently damage. I’m talking about things like hoping he gets hit by a bus a la Regina...

I felt absolutely nothing when my paternal grandfather died mostly because he never did anything but eat and sleep all day when I was a kid. I literally know nothing about this man other than he had dementia from falling and hitting his head pretty hard. He never played with me. He never talked...

I use my tv as a distraction. The only show that triggers me is Law and Order SVU but I don’t have to worry about it because I don’t have cable and I mainly play YouTube on my tv anyway. Music is also another distraction for me and I play it using YouTube.

September and October are especially hard for me to deal with because this time of the year is when the sexual assaults began. It feels like the usual depressive state I fall into around this time of year is especially bad. I haven’t been able to sleep, I’ve lost my appetite, I’m extremely...

The good news is as soon as I escaped from that hellhole known as high school, I stopped being suicidal. The problem then became me having no self esteem left and having a lot of trauma that was left unaddressed or that I kept repressing inside my head.

I only used the other prefix because I don’t know how else to address this specific trauma. A week before my senior year of high school, the popular kid and football star was in a very serious car accident that almost killed him. The first day of school, the principal made that announcement...

It was pretty clear that I was suicidal because I kept making comments like, “You know you’d be happy if I was dead,” and “No one would miss me when I’m gone.” I’d been speaking that way for at least a month, I found ways around the school’s internet blockers to research different ways to commit...

I was in a cooking class holding a chef’s knife in my right hand. I drew a dotted line in the area where I thought that I just need to cut with a pen. I drew the line right before we started cooking. As soon as I heard that we were going to be using knives the Friday before, I knew that this was...

When I reached that point my senior of high school, I actually tried to follow through an entire plan I had created in one week to kill myself in class in front of everyone. My plan was to go through with the suicide unless one person saw me and stopped me and told me that they cared about me...

Mine is related to my autism. If my anxiety gets really bad, my head feels weird and light headed and I begin to walk a very stilted way and my vision sort of blurs out and sometimes I blackout for a few seconds at a time and during this I feel like my brain is shutting down as a way to protect...

Well the my abuser is dead now and thus can’t see anything I say about her but I’ll follow suit.

I basically numb myself by constantly having noise of any sort in the background whenever I’m home and also by playing video games or going to antique and thrift stores. Sometimes it’s just sitting there and brushing and styling the hair of a fashion doll and even changing the clothes. For...

Am I allowed to use first names here? Because I’d rather not have to keep using “my abuser” for my dad’s secretary. She was a major part of my life got a long time and half of my trauma is from her treatment towards me after I turned 10. I also have religious trauma that actually doesn’t involve...

Also I’m biologically a male but I identify as being gender neutral and it’s hard for me to find any sort of resource aimed directly for male survivors of sexual violence. I am on another site designed for male survivors but it just isn’t enough for me. I need more help and support.

Well the problem is the guy also works in the legal field. He hasn’t contacted me in any form since I escaped high school and I don’t think he ever will.

For the past twenty five years, I’ve been struggling with the knowledge that I was sexually assaulted in gym class for months by a classmate and then being victim blamed when I refused to talk about it because I was still traumatized and in denial and no one made me feel safe, told me my rights...