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You are in the right place - you know what might be super helpful for you? The PTSD polls forum. I've answered maybe a million of them. :) The hypervigilance and paranoia are so common. I saw what you said in the chat room and I feel the same way - I want to kill people all the time and I say...

1) I hate when I'm sleep-deprived, it makes me feel sadder and I know it's mood reasons 2) I found the Pacifica app on iphone and it's helping 3) met a sleazebag last night and discovered he was gross today and still feeling low about it 4) I really do want to have some human contact today but...

This has also been recommended to me so many times particularly to help with the insomnia and the way PTSD affects our brain structures, that even though I've tried years of meditation and found it didn't "work", I'm going back to it now. I'm going to keep trying until I find a type of...

I am so happy to see you in this forum! While I've always loved your comments, your username and whole being makes more sense now knowing who the lion is :) I love reading your prayer and accept them wholehearted AMEN AMEN AMEN HALLELUJAH!

@SheilaKathy I hope everything went as God intended for that last prayer! Praying for your sister! I have a similar vein to ask for prayer in - I am in a dire financial situation and praying for God's provisions and for his miraculous glory to show in how he cares for me. I believe in you, Lord...

My church sister told me one day when I was crying to consider her family. She has lived up to it - tonight when I was in a bad place, and on the phone with my ex hoping for comfort (that di did NOT work btw), she said to get off the phone and I said she can call. She prayed over me for a long...

1) God is all I have right now I'm literally at my end 2) That is okay. I still believe in God. 3) Everything is actually okay. 4) "Though you slay me, yet I will praise you." (Job) 5) He will NOT let me fall or die. He will not.

Do you trauma shake? When my CPTSD hit last fall I looked up TRE and did some on my own. I'd already known what trauma shaking was from previous work as a life coach (and I took somatic therapy while doing my MFT but I'm not a therapist). I find when you want to flail, sometimes it's what your...

I wish I had a solution but I'm here to just say I relate - I pick my lip and it's a self-soothing gesture I started as a child when my CPTSD began, but I have never been able to stop. I think I do it less as an adult cuz I'm starting to deal with my anxiety and CPTSD. I've definitely pulled...

Oh dear gawd YES. Sheesh lol I feel so much better reading this. I sat shaking in that cafe for hours because I was in public, but run across two lanes of traffic cuz my Uber driver was on the wrong side of the road but said it was clear to get into his car idled at a stop sign and then have...

I'm smiling to myself because one of the worst exes I ever had, I should have known he'd be bad for me because he was one of those people. I tend to chalk that up to having an overly good life (like people who utterly adore horror movies and can't get enough of watching really sick things) and...

Yep. Same. I actually signed into this form on my phone, in public, which I never do, because I'm still a little jittery from a homeless man screaming obscenities at me last week one of the few times I was out in public by myself. I have spent years traveling by myself so it is a little...

So beautiful, thank you. You did this for me just now. I'm grateful for 1) God's grace and love for me 2) My ability to love others for him on this earth 3) The wonderful art that made me cry these last 2 days (we are commemorating the 75th anniversary of a very painful oppression in this...

Not only is that MY first thing too (my chest literally feels heavy/tight right now) but I LOVE that song! And also the Bangles :) 2) I feel so addicted to thing and people and distractions 3) I feel so addicted to feeling good b/c it's so easy to feel bad in my every day life 4) Why is it...

Oh please do post this! In this thread, or whatever - or tag me - I'd be super into this! I love that this place reframed my understanding of what I have as a brain trauma or a brain injury - b/c injuries are recoverable! I've recovered from physical injuries and come back EVEN stronger so that...

1) I need to eat some more food I think since I just had some GI issues 2) I don't want to think about those issues cuz that's like my life now 3) I'd really like to go to bed RIGHT NOW 4) I wish I had the ability to just sleep whenever and wherever I wanted 5) I feel loving feelings and I want...

Grateful for 1) a great day 2) being out all day, which makes it great :) 3) spontaneously catching an amazing exhibit and performance at a museum and being inspired 4) my ex buying me a heavy winter jacket so I can make it through the season (since I ripped my heavy winter coat last year) 5)...

Wow my CPTSD started last Nov! I found this forum less than 2 months later and it's helped change my life. That sounds great that you've been able to make such progress with a workbook on your own - may I ask what workbook it is? I'm always gathering resources for myself. I just started EMDR...

Wow I'm grateful the server is back where it should be and we can connect with each other again lol! That was an interesting reset where I had to live my normal everyday life without this forum lol. While I'm glad for what it was, I'm also glad to have this again. Grateful for: 1) A good day...

1) yoga rocks 2) I could use a nap but it's getting quite late... 3) oh whatever a tiny nap is ok lol 4) I'm starving! 5) hi everyone I'm sending love and light to whomever needs it!

Yes I resonate! This thread is so encouraging :) Yes! My friend loaned me a diffuser and I use it every night to sleep. I'm about to buy my own starter kit for as cheaply as I can find online - can't wait!!! I'm grateful for 1) Visiting 3 different prayer rooms yesterday 2) Little tiny...

woops sorry internet glitched and posted too early! But so grateful to all the helpful people here as usual!

YES! I started off coming every day but now drop in at least twice a day. This place was instrumental in my figuring out what I want in a therapist and learning about EMDR, as well as feeling like I'm normal!

haha I self-diagnosed. Or rather, I was talking to a life coach a few years ago who told me what it was and then I read up on it and basically just brought it to the T I see now and he once teased me and said "this is what YOU say you have, not me". He is very good at making me feel not crazy :P...

Welcome!!! ' This place is totally welcoming and judgment-free - it's been my life-saver and I go every day (multiple times sometimes) to get support and feel not "weird" or "crazy". Glad you'e here! Sorry for typos I have a tremor. I have CPTSD adn got great resources for EMDR, which I just...