Search results

I'm trying to figure out how I'm allowing myself to go back into these horrible emotional places over and over - crying easily and losing my shit. So, I'm writing about my experience this evening to you all. I already wrote in my journal, and that got me to this point. I'm extremely triggered...

As the title says, I just want to vent a little... Using marijuana has helped me put on weight - I was 112lbs at 5'7" (I'm female)...underweight. I was back in my healthy weight range last week, at 121 lbs...but just 4 days without using marijuana has resulted in a 2 lb weight loss. Today, I...

Like many of you all, I am plagued with horrible nightmares relating to my abuse - physical, visual, and auditory sensations and experiences in my sleep. However, after learning in therapy that I frequently "detach" from myself as a defense mechanism to deal with cognitive dissonance and...

I recently shared (via e-mail) with my new PTSD specialist therapist about my constant, intense feelings of worthlessness, inadequacy, and self-hatred. He explained how my emotional self-concept is not tied with my logical thoughts, but that we can work on it so that what I logically know to be...

The appointment is in a few hours and my stomach is in knots... I can't eat or drink water and just moving my torso causes the pains in my stomach to get worse. I think it's because of anxiety, but I often have an emotional disconnect - I don't know how I'm feeling, I just rely on these physical...

Does anyone have a dog that helps them manage their symptoms, especially emotional instability associated with complex-PTSD? My dog very visibly reacts to my PTSD, especially when I am particularly "on edge." Nearly every day now for the past few weeks (since my Christmas Eve 2013 aspirin...

Hello...I haven't been active much lately but I do come here often and read. I wish I had the energy to help others more, but my symptoms have intensified tremendously lately... Christmas (Dec 23rd-26th) was spent in the hospital ICU after I intentionally overdosed on aspirin...36 adult...

For those who struggle with self-harm - does anybody use sleep deprivation as a form of self harm? I find that I can't get motivated to do things until the very last possible minute (this is not good because I am in grad school). I stay up all night the day before an important assignment is due...

Looking back, I can actually see some humor in one of my most common triggers. I have a noise sensitivity that, when triggered, can cause me to go into an emotional flashback accompanied by intense muscle tension and self harm. Well, one of my common triggers happens to be when I flush the...

I have been seeing my therapist for about 6 weeks now, and in those 6 weeks have learned that I likely suffer from some complex PTSD + depression. So far he really seems to understand what I'm going through, seems to know how I feel before I even fully realize it, and even handled me having a...

I wonder if anyone else has had this experience before.... I am a 26 year old woman with C-PTSD and depression. My episodes cause vomiting episodes a few times per week and a generally stressed feeling in my stomach most of the time. I suffered from eating disorders from age 15-18, alternating...

It happened. Usually I only allow 2 select people in my life, who I am very close to, to see me experience a flashback, but my therapist saw it for the first time today. I mainly get emotional flashbacks with intense crying, muscle tension, sweating, nausea/vomiting, and complete lack of ability...

I suppose I am mostly posting this just to vent... Unfortunately my closest friends are often my biggest triggers. I try to help a friend through her problem, and - BAM - I feel inadequate and spiral into an emotional flashback. My loving boyfriend doesn't hug me "long enough" and - WOAH - I...

Has anybody identified techniques that effectively stop a flashback in its tracks? I am plagued by emotional flashbacks, where I suddenly feel afraid, overwhelmed, extremely angry, tense, and I experience a very intense emotional pain. My whole body hurts with intense pain, and I often vomit...

Hi. I am a 26 year old graduate student and was recently diagnosed with PTSD. I primarily suffer from "emotional flashbacks," as my therapist tells me. All sorts of events, conversations, thoughts, songs, sounds, etc, in my life trigger me to go into a deep, very dark psychological experience...