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I've been going to the chiropractor and acupuncturist every week, for 5-6? weeks now. Overall I think it's been helping. I have more energy, my knees aren't hurting as badly and I've even lost a little bit of weight. The acupuncture though - something happened yesterday and I'm feeling...

And of course, he's back at it today. Yippee! At least he's having the decency to do it later in the morning. Didn't start until 11 today. Am I an awful person that I hope he hurts himself with one of his power tools? Badly?

Soooo, update. Homeowner sent a sort of apology, via Facebook. I responded. It was concise, to the point and took down every single ad hominem and cherry picked argument she'd laid into my daughter. I heard nothing (blessed quiet, is it to good to be true?!) for three days. Tonight she came...

@Neverthesame hahah thank you! It's been raining today, so the jerk hasn't been able to do anything outside. As the day has gone on without incident, I've relaxed more and more. Even managed to get some work done. My dog has been on serious high alert all day tho. She sat in front of me...

This was something I trained in as a child. Not kidding. We'd do "drills" staring for hours at a single point, the end goal? To feel as though you'd left your body and could "operate" freely, without reaction to anything. Started doing those drills when I was 4. Now it takes nothing to flip me...

While my experiences are not exactly the same, obviously :) I have similar. We moved a lot when I was a child. I counted several schools every year. Always the outsider, I never connected with other kids well. That definitely bled into my adult life. I keep people at arms length without...

God - I was really messed up last night. Disassociated so badly I don't even remember writing this post. Ugh. I hate that. I'm a little calmer today, though the ativan probably has a lot to do with it. Thanks for letting me vent ya'll. I know there's really very little I can do. I can't...

I've posted before on this. Tonight, after a week of non-stop metal grinding, sanding and pounding - I lost my sh&t. I did not handle it well. I left the house, for about an hour on errands. I'd been listening to metal grinding all day and thought maybe a break would calm me down. I came home...

58. Yikes. Guess I still have some work to do. :facepalm:

Thank you all for your replies and sharing how you feel. It's helped me tremendously, to gain some insight into this specific feeling. I'm still very much struggling with the learning curve between what I was taught growing up in the bubble of the cult I was raised in and what the rest of the...

I hope I put this in the right place. I recognize that every person is different, so I'm hoping that by reading other people's descriptions (if you're willing to share) it will help me understand. I was texting with my friend who has combat PTSD, and he said he was dead. It was an...

Going to concerts in the park with my grandad. I wasn't allowed to speak during, but we would sit and listen to people play the pipe organ every Sunday afternoon. He'd pack a picnic and after we would go to the local zoo. I remember chasing the ducks. Mostly I remember imagining stories to the...

wow. Just... Wow. Thank you. Those quotes, and I will be looking up the full references, said in the most succinct fashion what I've experienced. I'm second generation, but was born into and raised in a cult. Somehow I managed to extract myself, but the confusion over who I am, without its...

@FindingMyself88 I'm so sorry you're going through this. I know exactly what you mean about the flashbacks being so physically real. That was most of my spring and summer, almost nightly. My entire body felt like I had been beaten and molested. I'm sorry I don't have a good answer. For me, I...

I was brainwashed to think that my pain was irrelevant and should not be felt, for the greater good. That if I "decided" to not feel, I would achieve a higher state. F#*ked up.

I've been under a tremendous amount of stress this summer, dealing with too much work, toxic people and anniversaries of several deaths, including the one that sent my ptsd over the edge. But yesterday I decided to spend the day doing something I love. I'd forgotten how much. It was mentally and...

My friend (someone I was sort of seeing, but it never got that far...?) is the same way. I hadn't heard from him for over a week, very unusual. I didn't text after no response the first couple of days. Honestly, I was busy and forgot. A week later, I sent him something and he answered right...

This is just my opinion, so please, if I offend or am wrong, I apologize in advance. I have found that one of the most damaging things to the psyche is the inability to stop something we know isn't right. It's worse, it seems, than the acts committed directly upon us. I don't know why. I know...

You guys are all cracking me up! :p I haven't heard anything in two days (a record!). I think his gf might have said, um she has a point and they're chilling it out. I did think of recording of all of the noises at some point and then playing it back, three feet from their driveway, at the same...

Thank you guys. Made me laugh and settle down. Guy is an arse, but I don't want to escalate anything. They didn't make any noise today, probably because my wild haired rampage scared then yesterday, but I'm cool with that. We'll see...

For the last five months, almost every single morning, my neighbor's live in boyfriend has been doing projects around her property. He is within the bounds of the noise control laws, but he's grinding metal, welding, sawing, chopping, pounding, revving engines, you name it. I work second...

I'm sorry you're going through this. As someone with PTSD, who also dated someone with PTSD (and still remains good friends with same) I can only tell you what I have experienced. When I am stressed, I pull back. Like a turtle into a shell. My responses are brief, and never touch on anything...

I'm not exactly sure what you're asking specifically, in terms of advice or experience? I was raised in a cult, my first severe abuses occurred while I was a child in that cult, which led to the PTSD diagnosis after I collapsed last year.

I have friends, of all genders. My late husband never had a problem with it, because he knew they were just that, friends. Some happen to be male, some aren't. This sounds like a problem the woman you were dating has, not yours. I find both genders, if they are themselves insecure, will try...

I didn't even feel them going in. It was wild. The only one I felt was one in my foot, and that was after it was in, like a slight itch. She adjusted it and the sensation went away. :-)