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    New in my life due to medical treatment

    OK. This may not be quite ok for this group. I have a related womebs group for this. I reached out to them. But I am pissed. I have had estrogen treatment for severe menopausal symptoms. It has helped a lot. But.... my breast size has increased. My ob gyn said it can happen. But husband now...
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    Multiple payment systems

    I have 2 bank accounts. 2 credit cards. A credit union account for car pymt. Some people or merchants only take cash. AI seems to control us all. I pay rent with venmo. Today was payday. I am seeing pattern recognition in myself with stress. I ordered heartworm meds for my dogs. The site said my...
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    Help with husband

    I have ptsd ftom catastrophic illness cardiopulmonary arrest..Transgenerational trauma ftom my family of origion. Husband is a veteran. He believes in hypervigilance..I just asked him to some how assure me he would not react when the better response would be not reacting pause stop..He is...
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    Childhood Enmeshment trauma

    I have childhood teenage adult enmeshment traums behind my ptsd and catastrophic illness in 2014. I am not going to blame mom dad family of origion forever. I refrained it to cause effect correlation long ago so I could coperate with my physicians therapists etc and take responsibilty for...
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    My father- again..

    He is 89. He has several comorbities including memory issues falls etc. Released from hospital about 2 weeks ago. He does not live in my state. Case worker and doctor said he needs 24/7 supervision. My brother lives near him. My brother is the golden child. My father has some narcissistic...
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    Other Unsafe people

    Would appreciate any comments on something I have seen in myself. I was educated into traits of safe and unsafe people as part of my domestic violence treatment trauma recovery. I have tried to interact be kind to people that was a mistake. Yesterday a former resident of our rv park drove here...
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    Problem today

    We have a neighbor female 40 who is struggling- financially emotionally with past history of trauma abuse. My husband feels he needs to inform this woman how bad things are getting. He wants her to be safe. OK. No. There is nothing inappropriate here. I see many traits of an unsafe person here...
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    Military Facing Fear

    Well. Today was the first day of early voting in the primary in my state. I voted. Here is why this is meaningful to me. My husband a veteran a good man is a believer in doomsday etc..Much fear in me re emerged from being with him. He has many cognitive distortions..This has been tough for me...
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    Other Trauma stress

    The US right now how awful. Non-stop collective trauma..I don't know what to do. This country is sick. People will not come back from from this. Life is more stressful. Problems take longer to solve. Today had so many things to check on follow up on.... I screamed f...k what are trauma survivors...
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    Not happy with husband

    Been busy with huge to do list. Got a lot of things done. I have a new diagnosis too that is newly treated and better. So I expressed my frustration husbands says demands I want to be happy. Actually seems to demand of others they think or feel a certain way. Ha ha ha.
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    New car

    We got a new car. Used but very nice. 2017 Chevy equinox 44000 miles. Needed newer car for trips from our rural area to larger areas where are health care providers. All went well. I am afraid though. And just tired.
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    Visit from my rural area to larger area for health care

    I had a doctor's appt and mammogram today. We traveled about 11/2 hours. There are more grocery stores a walmart etc. I was in this Walmart about 6 weeks ago. I was shocked. The store is moving it's inventory behind locked cabinets due to theft. The people shopping looked desperate and fearful...
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    Other Boundaries.

    I have been using an app called I can say no. Of course my past involved codependency etc. So. This app is helping me a lot to zero in on priorities. And just tough boundaries setting.
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    Death Trigger

    Husband brought up again- about the 3rd or 4th time in last 3 dsys- he wants to buy freeze dried food. He bought some Saturday. OK. It is food. But it brings out in me hopelessness fear no agency. He is a veteran. So. I told him to stop bringing this up to me and purchase more when he gets paid...
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    Need help & insight managing my responses

    Married to veteran with ptsd. No treatment..We are having huge arguments over my skills STOP HALT PAUSE removing yourself from distressing people etc..I am over reacting but I am in fear. He thinks the current political situation. Will end up like bosnia where he served. No other option. He...
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    What purpose does hypervigilance serve

    Is it giving a sense albeit false of control? Thank you.
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    Overwhelmed

    Got triggered earlier today. Husband and I shopping said we have to be aware of how much groceries are going up. One of our payday is about 1 week away. I have working on other things. Making appointments we got a new used vehicle etc. We do not control price increases. Nothing to do but...
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    My father

    Having trouble making my frequent call to my elderly father. He voted for the current administration and since the war started I have not been able to check on him. Yes. My father was a factor in the emergence of my ptsd. I had gotten past that but him voting for this administration and...
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    Grateful

    We got a new used car on Saturday March 14. Our Toyota 2007 is running out of reliability. We have kept it maintained but live in a rural area and have to drive about 1 - 1/ 2 hours for major grocery shopping aka safeway Walmart etc and health care. We got a 2015 Ford expedition. The very back...
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    Other Being targeted?

    This occurred to my husband and I. We live in a small rural community. He volunteers at one of the food banks here. The woman in charge of it offered for us to live rent free on her property. We own an RV. We are a renting a space now which includes rent utilities. It is a small park and the...
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    Insight plese

    I see a pattern here that has re emerged. I believe it is codependency / fawning..husband a veteran. We watched a war movie tonight based on real events. He has had to follow specific plans. He has insisted I and others do the same in terms of self defense weapons. He believes there will be...
  22. K

    Conserving water

    So. We are moving rent utility free. We checked it out today. Despite my fear it is OK. We have to get a container to dispose of our black water. We own rv. So husband is showing me this on Amazon. Then mentions conserving water . I don't wash the dishes the way he would..yes his latest concern...
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    This came up again

    Couple in our area offered us free rent utilities use of their shower laundry. We own rv our current lot rent is 400.00 month all utilities included. My husband has worked for our landlord once we got 50 % off rent. He is doing this again now. The couple have health issues. The husband has had...
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    Insight please

    My husband is a veteran has ptsd. No treatment like me..He has some core beliefs about the news the media the situation in the US. Believes everyone should read the news etc. Really discussed it too much for me. Would not accept my boundaries till a few days ago. Together 6 years. We were in...
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    Gemini use resulting in suicide

    Has anyone seen the article about the man who ended up committing suicide over his use of Gemini? I follow Dr Steven Hassan who once was a moonie cult member. I have been learning and continue to educate myself on what our devices the media AI algorhythms etc are doing to the prefrontal cortex...
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