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Today is day one taking Lexapro. I do not usually take meds and this is my first experience of an antidepressant. My life has basically blown apart and I just can't do it anymore. My question is: is it possible to be feeling effects of an antidepressant only hours after taking it. I was...

Sounds beautiful. Thank you for sharing. I hope you really feel and celebrate this big sucess.

Recently I've started talking to myself from my elder state. Imagine myself as my wiser, older sage and talk to myself from that point of view. What that part of me would tell me. Also it can help to visualize myself as a young child and imagine how i would treat and what i would say to that...

Patience and go slow. Let her lead. Maybe think about maritial counseling with a trauma therapist. My PTSD is for different reason but teally got activated 2 years ago after the birth of our son and I went from very invested and involved in my relationship to cut off and isolated. My husband is...

So sorry PTSD and relationships can be really hard. Mine is really high at this stage in my life and its really hard to not be able to connect, to want to and yet feel empty and disconnected anyways. My husband and I are in a similar space, but I am wanting out. Its too hard to feel so much...

I am trying to use all the tools I have but I am feeling more and more hopeless and now my husband and I are in a huge fight. I have no idea how to cope with all this. Probably I will find some way and be ok until the next time and then the cycle will begin again. I can't so it anymore. So tired...

My life is far too complicated, and I am trying soooooo hard but just when I find a moment of repreve. Everything falls apart and I loose it. Its too much and I am too broken. Its not going to get better anytime soon. I need a way out. Suicide ideation and parasuicidal thouhts are extremely...

@ greenleaf I have the acting normal thing too. It is especially hard to show that I am unsafe. I really want to work on my marriage and I think we need some professional assistance but this was really hard. I guess I need to find some way to express my level of fear and trigger at the last...

Actually really struggle with sharing my boundaries, but its a good idea and I will try. I was amazed at how unsafe and tramatic it felt.

I had my first couples counseling session yesterday. I found it extremely triggering and felt very unsafe and pretty closed off and a bit dissociative. She is a trauma therapist and highly recommended but she kept asking me about how I was doing and what I was feeling. I struggle with sharing...