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His night terrors are about being abandoned? When I had sleep paralysis, it was because I really needed the rest. (I'm not a sleep expert, but basically I came to these conclusions.) If he's really exhausted from lack of sleep, his body will try to get good sleep at the expense of his...

I'm like @Kefira. If I feel it too much, I will either blank out or freak out. I had an electric shock injury when I was little past the let go threshold. I dissociated that event. It was weird though. I could hear screaming and realized it was me. I only came back to really take a breath (very...

I'll give it a try. I'll let you know how it goes.

Fawn. The co-dependent one.

Yep. It's right up there with "Why did your mom give you up for adoption?" I can't count how many times complete strangers have asked me this.

I'm just all kinds of angry for you right now. There's not much I can say that is helpful because I think that is a shitty thing for them to do. Very alienating, and even a bit like a circus show. This event would color how I proceed with the church. Are you sure it's worth it? Maybe a more...

I wonder about this too. I've been known to space out especially if I'm depressed. When I'm living in the present (which I don't think is something you can make yourself do...like making yourself awake when you are tired. But there are other things you can do to make it more feasible.), my mind...

I'm not much help here even though I have four kids. I want to hide this from them for as long as I can. I'm vague about my appointments, and how I'm feeling. I've cried out only a few times. Mostly, I get spacey. Since you've had this flashback and it was witnessed, I think you'll need a sit...

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I'm like this a lot. Accepting people's love is hard for me. It means that I have to confront what I actually need. And I don't want to need anybody. But that's really not true. Everyone needs someone. We are social creatures that are totally dependent when born. When the people that we trust...

But when I'm in "remission", I feel pretty darn normal. I'm able to work, take care of normal daily things, and I don't have to think about my past at all. I've gone months without thinking about it. It's when stress gets too high or I have another memory surface do I go back down. I think...

Could you ask your trauma specialist if there are any housing/shelter that you could apply for? I can't imagine living in a car. I feel like that would be more stressful than getting a part time gig somewhere that is mindless. One that I did way back when was stocking shelves at a grocery store...

@Polly_pocket Please be gentle with yourself. I'm getting this gut feeling that this flashback is just a layer on an onion. Be kind.

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You won't be "good as new". I think this is a lofty and unreachable goal. I remember being very impatient. I wanted to be done in six sessions. Ha! I went for a full year weekly then phased them out after that. I've gone back here and there to make sure I'm on the right track. You can only heal...

After I wrote the original post, I realized that there are at least two phases before overflow. First phase is normal feeling: take on the world type feeling. The second phase is depression. I'm very much like @Momofthree that I tend to muscle through tiredness. And like @ghotiff , I don't...

I don't seem to be able to detect that. It's either I'm fine or I'm totally NOT fine. My hubs wants me to tell him when things are starting to get bad...and I just don't know what to tell him. I think sometimes the act of saying it puts me over the edge. I do my best keeping the stress levels...

This is a symptom that I did nothing for. I just couldn't. Nothing worked. How do you prevent a reflex? It's very much a physical reaction. I fainted once from a loud noise. I came to right as my butt hit the floor. There is nothing to do for that. Just keep working on the other stuff. It went...

Hang in there. You can do it. Deep breaths and feel your surroundings. Know we are pulling for you.

@JEKBreatheandBelieve Wishing you a productive and relaxing week. I thought about this thread many times during this past week. I had a bit of a rough patch....and I actually had to take my own advice. This is hard. Very. I'm not sure if this is something you can do...but it helped me this...

I'm just like this. But I think about it a little further. Why don't I accept the comfort? ..and for me it's because I think I don't deserve it. When people are kind to me in a selfless way, it hurts me. It brings emotions to the surface that I would just rather it stay down. I'm sure it's...

I had two diaries on here. One was in the private diaries, and the other that I had started recently moved to Premium Private. I found that I was writing in a way that blunted how I truly felt if I knew that I was going to get responses. Part of it is that I know how hard this is. All of us are...

I went through something similar this past week. My world just fell apart. So I went to bed. And the world kept going without me. I'm thinking you are very strong to keep it together enough to get the kids to bed. I just couldn't do anything. I downloaded some PTSD books because knowledge helps...

Those of us that have been abused pick up on any negativity quickly. So I can totally see how that would have influenced you during the sessions. Good luck with the service dog. I know that it has helped many!

For many of us though, we just can't state it in words. It's not that we don't want to. I find that it's transient. It depends on how symptomatic I am currently. Many times it's just indifference. It's hard to feel anything toward anything when everything is numb. I just read in a book that...