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I have been obsessed with the movie "The Martian" since it was released on DVD two months ago. I have watched it at least ten times and I am reading the book for the third time. It has always been a fantasy of mine to be completely alone somewhere for as long as I can remember and waiting for...

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My dad is in the hospital. He was diagnosed with colon cancer a couple of weeks ago and he had his surgery on Thursday. The doctors think they got all of the cancer and all the scans they did shows that it hadn't gone anywhere else. He doesn't need chemo or even have to have a bag so they...

Does anyone else have flashbacks of an event they can't remember? I was writing something a little while ago and realized that I have. I have the memory of the flashback and remember knowing that it really happened during the flashback but I don't have the direct memory of the event. With...

I just had a discussion with my ex-husband's wife. She is worried about my daughter and what she has said has me worried too. She described PTSD that was probably triggered by a lot of stress my daughter has been under recently. I know telling you what has been happening and what happened in...

I had a discussion tonight in my group session that I thought I would share. It was about how people, any people, can get hooked into a triangle. The 3 corners of the triangle are 1) victim, 2) persecutor/abuser and 3) rescuer. I can understand it to a point but to actually start to talk...

My psychiatrist wants me to list some good things my parents have done. She is asking me to do this because I have been having a hard time not blaming them for what happened. For many, many years I would make up excuses for them, excuses for why they missed seeing that something so bad had...

I have had flashbacks that put me right back into being a very young child. In my active memory, the ones that were not interrupted by trauma, there was only one incident that happened that the flashbacks lead to. Everything that I have remembered in the past 2 years, the actual memory that...

I have a Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) test scheduled for tomorrow. It is a scan of my brain, ironic that I have had abdominal pain for almost 2 years that doctors can't figure out and haven't asked for this test yet. One doctor noticed that I blinked one eye slower than the other a few...

For the first time I need to wear glasses. I have been using reading glasses for the past couple of years but whenever I spoke to someone or did anything other than close work I took them off. A month ago I saw an optometrist and found out that I needed distance glasses too. It wasn't a...

I hate that I am feeling this way. I don't know if it is the medication I just started or a continuation of the depression that started getting worse a couple months ago. I do want to say that although I have often thought that I would welcome the end of my life, I don't want to do anything to...

There is a Heshey's M&Ms commercial that is playing now that always triggers me. It is a couple, a man & woman sitting on a couch behind 2 M&M characters that are playing video games on a tv. The man and the woman are discussing if the feet and hands of the M&M characters are chocolate and if...

It has been a year coming. My son was out with his girlfriend exactly a year ago and an exboyfriend of hers had turned stalker and was tried to attack her. My son defended her and the ex bit his nose off. It took over 100 stitches inside and out to reattach it and he also had a concussion and...

Forget it... I'll handle it alone like I always do.

I had a flashback a couple of weeks ago that completely floored me. I have only had hints of this in previous flashbacks, or rather it seemed to happen just before a flashback occurred and it still confused me. After a couple of months it stopped. I was hoping that someone out there may have...

In my life there have been a lot of traumas, aside from the big significant one that caused the PTSD there have been many smaller ones that probably contributed but wouldn't have caused it on their own. I have had a few comments on my posts, well intentioned and on the face of it, good advice...

Hi. I thought I should introduce myself here. I have been on the PTSD Forum for a while but I just recently started coming onto this forum. About two years ago I started to recover memories of something that happened 43 years ago, when I was 5 years old. I was abducted by a man and then...

I come from small towns (many) in the Canadian Prairies and because of PTSD I usually avoided any social interactions. I have been watching some shows on dinner parties and there have been things that people think of as being completely rude and yet it is the accepted norm where I live. The...

I bought a box of mandarin oranges yesterday, the same kind I bought a few weeks ago that were so good. This new box of oranges are so tart that they are barely edible. The peel is a little on the green side but in my experience the oranges only dry up instead of ripen and get sweeter. Does...

I am reading a book my therapist loaned to me and I was having trouble trying to do the exercises in it. I picked it up a few moments ago to try and read and do the exercise again and suddenly realized that I had already answered the exercise on a post here today. Our minds are never...

My T wants me to try this therapy to help me cope with a surgery that I will be having in a few weeks. I had minor surgery a few months ago and it caused some really bad flashbacks because of the pain and the upcoming surgery is going to be many times worse. I want to go into this with an...

I had some minor surgery a few weeks ago but I had to go under general anesthesia. When I woke up there wasn't much pain and once I was able to get on my feet I was discharged and sent home in a taxi about an hour after I woke up. I was told to take over the counter pain meds but after a few...

42 years later, after several heart attacks, a stroke, operations due to osteoporosis would you want to know your 5 year old child was abducted? Would you want to know that you completely ignored her or didn't even notice that she was in pain, shock, terrified to the point that she refused to...

I have been having a hard time recently with sudden bouts of depression combined with a hypervigilence. These feelings sometimes come out of the blue, like a switch has been flipped on, or sometimes I can feel them building. I have never been suicidal but when these feelings come up now, its...

My daughter is in labour, she posted a message on facebook at 3am to let everyone know she was heading for the hospital. Haven't heard anythng else yet. The hospital I think she went to is 3 hours away. 9 hours and counting...