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How wonderful, Manic! My first horse was also a blanket appaloosa...with issues. I think we PTSDers are more like prey animals than not and understand deeply what can set them off...how to be around them. The old saying goes "The outside of a horse is good for the inside of a (wo)man." May your...

This is a great thread. I resonate with all this. When I have been stressing or get over tired, I can barely talk...can't decide what to eat so I don't... simple tasks reduce me to tears. God forbid I have to explain a decision. Looking into my brain resembles opening the air lock to deep space...

You have been thru so much...continue to strive...have a compassionate goal...and you are supported in your path. Truly awesome. Good on ya, girl!

Don't know if this would work for you, but I just completed a 6 week program of Image Rehearsal Therapy (IRT) for nightmares and it did reduce the quantity and intensity of mine. The gist is that you practise a rescripted version of a frequent nightmare using visualization twice a day for about...

I'Ve had a lot of success with the Feldenkrais Method. Have done it for years. Using non-invasive, non habitual movements to re-educate the nervous system...affecting everything the nervous system affects. It helped me a lot with language processing, emotional and panic regulation and sciatica...

Good place to do good...I agree. Unfortunately I have to get paid too. Now that is even more urgent as I just got a foreclosure notice...and I am in no better shape than I was before I got the notice. Sigh.

well said, ghost

I am not claustraphobic...but can get very panicked outside when triggered. I, too, saw outside as safety when growing up in a violent household. I think for me it is my hypervigilance at red alert and I am checking constantly for threats. Picnickers become a terrorist cell...trees or parked...

I apologize if the old timers here have answered this a dozen times already. I am not really sure what I am asking much less how to check the archives. Here goes: how do you know when you are pushing yourself in a positive way to overcome the problems caused by PTSD, etc and when it is damaging...

These are a help...thanks.PE...I just gave notice at my mechanic job today and reading your lists I realize why. I would find myself physically dreading going in...though the boss was nice. But it was dark, fast, noisy, unpredicatable, chaotic...and I am not who I used to be to handle this. I am...

I realize this could open the door on a lot of humour...which is fine! But I AM serious. I am thrashing around trying to figure out how to put my life back together in a way that doesn't continue the cycle of triggering. I know I have to work with my self but I also need to lower my day to day...

This is sure hitting home today. I have been teetering on a depression for a few days and woke up with that awful feeling that yes...I am in it now. The loss of old self is really hammering me. Even the recent old self. I got a letter of recommendation sent to me by the boss who moved out of...

Has anybody had experience with this? My therapist put in a referral to the PTSD clinic for this, for me. I have those bouts of horrendous nightmares and she thinks this will help. The clinician is supposed to call me Wednesday. What little I know is that it has to do with rehearsing a different...

I feel for your cats...but that is pretty hilarious! I just wanted to share something sweet from my dogs. I was going thru a really bad patch about 3 weeks ago. The usual: nightmares, flashbacks, unrelenting anxiety. One night I woke from a nightmare with the 2 dogs who can get on the bed on...

Hey, OBG...was that you laughing at me cuz I fell off the sidewalk because I am old, have PTSD and am clumsy too?? ;-p This is a great thread. I have a lot of those here. Shaking uncontrollably in public is embarrassing. The loss of language processing ability really sucked at work...or when...

I have been offline and did not know your bf still is out of the house. So sorry for that...but glad you and he are making progress. I think that the helplessness and guilt association is probably right on. But he is courageous guy willing to tackle his fears. I believe you will make it. FYI my...

It feels like I have been gone a year (not 2 mos) from the forum. Since I was last here, I had all my utilities cut off, more financial and physical woes and long periods of lousy or insufficient sleep. BUT...this six month flare seems to be waning. I have had five nights of 8hour sleep (and one...

Just a quick note to all...miss you tons!! My computer crashed. Hope to fix soon. All is well. Hanging in there. Risperidol saved my butt!!

Two thoughts, Helena...chaos theory and "if you change one person's life, you have changed the world"

That's kinda where I am going with this. I am trying to get on more of a preventitive track and be more proactive and less reactive. A bit more structure. It would help me be less compartmentalized and more integrated if I could figure out how to establish more memory...track the day to day and...

In my never ending quest to get my disorganized brain...esp the mischievous memory...corralled, I thought I would try some sort of daily log that covered meds, activity, symptoms etc so I could start to see patterns, have something to show my T and basically remember what the heck I did each...

It may be you don't know your life's purpose until the end of your life,if then. You may have a plan or a goal. But in the larger picture...which comes at the finish...what you planned and what you really contributed may not be the same thing. I am sure you know the scenario...someone believes...

you've done a lot of good here, too herc:thumbs-up

Mercy...have some mercy for yourself:wink: I am a sufferer and not a carer so I can only speak from that place. And I certainly don't pretend to know your family. Here are my two bits. I don't know if there are books out there but a lot of resource places that service vets have booklets by...

uh oh...philosophy time:doh: Well, because I am very mechanistic...I do believe we are all biological organisms twirling and swimming thru the primordial ooze to move the cosmos along. Yet I also believe this is linked to a 'higher purpose' for sentient beings who can choose different...