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  1. woodsy1

    Different roads to recovery from PTSD/cPTSD-related disability

    Wow. Not too many success stories here yet. 🥺 I am a 100% disabled Veteran of the United States Army. I have c-PTSD, MDD, GAD, and extreme Social Anxiety Disorder. I suffered with sever derealization for a few years. That part has subsided. After 6 years of self-isolation and crippling...
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    Anxiety Medications

    Hello Lionheart. I know this is an old thread. I hope you have found relief. Like many of the folks here, I have quite a story when it comes to meds. Basically, over time, I have tried just about every class of psych meds (aside from antipsychotics) and most every drug in every class...to...
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    Poll Are You Familiar With The Top Ten Distorted Cognitions?

    I wasn't aware these were the top ten. I am now. I practice most of them myself on a regular basis. Whether I choose to or not. :(
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    Sufferer 50 Year Old, Childhood Abuse + Spiritual Abuse + Spousal Abuse (Complex PTSD)

    Hiya TruthSeeker. Thanks so much for sharing. Congratulations (and good luck) on retiring. I hope that works out well for you. If I may ask, what did you retire from doing? My older brother just retired. He worked for PG&E for decades. Now he's trying to figure out what to do. He's not...
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    Sufferer 50 Year Old, Childhood Abuse + Spiritual Abuse + Spousal Abuse (Complex PTSD)

    Thanks Mums. Today was one of the harder days, not the hardest, but harder. Your kind words lifted my spirits and encouraged me. Thank you Ladee. It's good to feel welcome. Much of my abuse centered around rejection at so many levels. I'm sure I will post about some of these rejections at...
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    Sufferer 50 Year Old, Childhood Abuse + Spiritual Abuse + Spousal Abuse (Complex PTSD)

    Hello Fellow Survivors, I go by Woodsy on these forums. I'm glad to meet you. It's nice to know I'm not alone. I was abused from birth to age 12 by an alcoholic father. I saw some pretty crazy stuff in Desert Shield/Storm. Then I later suffered spiritual abuse for 18 years. As if that...
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    Is there any hope to stop being triggered into reactive states?

    Hello hithere, Just want to say, I feel you! Sometimes it seems like this triggered, traumatized state is going to kick our butts the rest of our life. Ugh! Have you had ANY improvement since your PTSD first began? At first, I was completely disabled and housebound by my symptoms 24/7 for a...
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