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Thank you Hashi, this is very helpful information. I feel like it would be really good for me to try some guided meditation and some yoga, but you are right, I should do them individually. A lot of my issues involve needing to slow down and feel what is around me. Would anyone be willing to...

Haha, I have been working out for ages and I STILL have no arm strength. It turns out that this is (mostly) not my fault! I am hyper mobile, which means my ligaments feel pretty casual about keeping my bones in the right places. That is why I am so flexible, but it also means that my muscles...

Guided meditation sounds good. I like the idea of doing that while doing yoga, do you think that is possible? And you guys find these techniques helpful to manage on a day to day basis? Do you do them daily to keep the over all anxiety level down, or do you just do them when you are...

Hello fellow work out fiends!!! It's great to see that there are other people out here who love to work out! I do a body weight routine every other day and I do Zumba on the days that I don't do body weights. I do them at 6:30am (when I have classes or work), and the best part is, I can do it...

Its fine for me if there are a bunch of birds but when there is only one, it is SO F***ING ANNOYING.

Oh wow, these are awesome!! Thank you so much!

I know that yoga helps with physical tension, but do you find it helps you manage your mental anxiety? And do you have any good yoga videos that you might recommend?

I have been having panic attacks lately, and my doctor has recommend anti anxiety medications, however my body has a low tolerance for medications of any kind. I cannot take benedryl, narcotic pain killers, antibiotics, anesthesia, even vitamins make me do a Linda Blair impression. So I am...

I lost my safe person. I feel sad and lonely, but also hopeful. I feel like my life is suddenly full of opportunity. I feel like dancing.

I have the same problem. I cannot access my emotions during therapy. I do, however, have tools to access them when I am alone. I am working on feeling my feelings and when I know I am blocking off, I will put on certain music that I know will make me cry. I have really found it helps.

I'm here!! I would still love to find someone local to talk to.

Thank you all so much for your input!! You guys have been amazing. I actually use a journal on a daily basis, but I had not been using it as a trauma dairy. I started doing that last night and I was surprised by how much I had to say. I am thinking I will organize my thoughts in that journal...

Thank you piratelady, and krikkit. I guess I am just concerned that the feelings won't come. That I won't be able to cry about what happened.

I have been on here for a month or so now, and I have found this forum really helpful. It has helped me to realize that it is not my fault that I have PTSD, that people who treat me like a leper for having it are just uneducated on the subject, or lacking kindness. It has helped me to have a...

I am struggling with this same problem. I am in a graduate program of 57 students, and I seek solitude, but then feel left out when they don't invite me to do things. The thing is, my life has revolved around my traumas (which are ongoing), that I do not know what to talk to them about. I have...

You are in the right place. I am feeling pretty low and desperate too.

My dog got attacked in the dog park today. It was awful. This dog kept going after her and she couldn't get away. The poor girl was yelping and crying and trying to escape. It didn't end until the other dogs owner came over, picked up the 6 pound puppy and put it into her purse... My dog...

Big Bear, thank you so much for your support. You have convinced me to stay. In any case, I have taken steps to ensure that I will never have to see or deal with his family again, so that is done with. I am still going to see the boy, but I have made it clear to him that my PTSD is no...

Thank you for reaching out, Big Bear. That is really sweet. He did defend me, he told me that he really did. It's just that I am no longer anonymous on here, and his family can follow my posts. I don't want him to have to deal with his family judging either of us based on my posts. For me...

Thanks for your support everyone. Unfortunately, the decision has kind of been made for me. He accidentally left his computer open and his family read my posts on this forum. They had a family meeting in which he discussed my PTSD with his family, and his family told him that they feel that I...

I feel like hurting myself, I feel like walking into the woods and never coming out (not a suicide thing, I have the skills to survive in the woods), I feel like no one will ever love me. Most of all I feel like a warrior, ready to fight. No one is going to take what I love from me. No one.

He and I talked last night. He came on here and read my posts and felt awful about it. He said that he feels like every change he tries to make just makes things worse, but he never actually tries to make changes. He gets so over whelmed and self loathing and nothing good ever comes of that...

Junebug, it's cool, this is a place for us all to be here for each other. I am glad you reached out to bubba. I am glad when anyone reaches out to another person. Bubba, I hope you are ok.

And bubba, right on for keeping a job you love!!! Please feel free to say more about your faith.

Tonight my best friend spilt wine on my puffalump and I cried like a ten year old pilgrim widow. Not the best end to my night.