Search results

A new-to-me PTSD symptom is that I'm suddenly experiencing deep waves of nausea at the same time as stomach cramps come on. Sometimes I get bad chills at the same time. I do experience IBS-D, so am prone to stomach problems, but these symptoms are new. I'm drinking strong peppermint tea and...

Today is the one year anniversary of a fire in my apartment that did a lot of material, psychic, financial, and social damage. I am really really anxious today and of course thinking about that. I'm trying to focus on the good things, but it's not really registering yet. Does anyone have tips...

My friend Jake is a good source of support, and we talk a lot about our struggles in mental health. He does not have PTSD or anxiety, though, and I have both in spades. A couple days ago, he said something in an email that triggered me hard. He really was trying to be helpful, and what he said...

I've been seeing doctors for a bit in an attempt to diagnose a really awful new set of symptoms. I am going through a time of tremendous stress and am frequently triggered, and I wonder if my body is reacting more physically than usual. Nothing has shown up in bloodwork, etc. Here are my...

I've been fighting off some kind of illness, lots of fatigue and pain, and I'm noticing that I get triggered much more easily right now. Does this happen to anyone else?

My mom's been visiting and staying in my apartment for a few days now. Also, I've been very sick and super fatigued/in pain from a respiratory virus, so my tolerance is low. My mom keeps bringing up subjects that are really hard for me and often lead to being triggered. And she is really...

My mother is coming to visit. She arrives tomorrow, and the next day she is going to come to therapy with me (unless I change my mind). One of the things that I want to try to communicate to her is that trauma is a very profound disruption of life. I really think she's mostly thought I just...

I'm having a rough go it right now because the only way I'm holding it together is to be totally avoidant. I have to clean my apartment in a big way (because of showings and also my mom visiting) and also talk to my landlord about stuff surrounding vacating this apartment. However, this is...

I am not sure how common this is with PTSD, but I'd imagine it's pretty common. And it's driving me nuts, and I would love to know if there's anything (aside from time, therapy, meditation, maybe meds) that will help to diminish it. Because I'm hypervigilant and always looking for threats, I...

My trauma means that not only have I dealt with a lot of really, really hard stuff, but also that things continue to be hard in lots of ways that affect my basic needs and quality of life. At any given moment, I'm dealing with not only symptoms but also things like how I'm going to afford food...

It's 3 AM here now, and I'm still up, feeling sensitive and scared. A lot of things are coming at me at once. The biggest thing is that I found out today that my landlord won't let me renew my lease when it ends in August. i've had a lot of traumatic housing situations, and looking for an...

From reading threads here, I'm now sure I'm not the only one whose memory loss extends past the actual trauma. In the past year, I've "met" a few guys who've reminded me that we had sex at some point. They remembered my apartment, etc accurately so I am sure it's true. Especially since I did...

Hypervigilance is a big problem of mine. I also cope with hard times by getting into a sort of workaholic phase (as a writer). My sleep has been poor lately because of stress, sleep apnea (I have a sleep study next week), and allergies. But last night I couldn't sleep at all, so now I've been...

Suddenly, the thought of doing laundry sends me into a full-blown panic. My adrenaline is so high that I just want to run away to safety. I feel sick to my stomach. I feel like I'd readily resort to violence if somebody tried to make me do laundry. This is new for me. I had a freakout over...

I've been doing well lately, but last week I started having terrible anxiety without any obvious trigger. It shifted into full-blown panic yesterday, and I would stay in the panic for much longer than most panic attacks last. I spent over three hours freaking out because I had to do laundry...

For the better part of a week now, my head has been a terrible place to live because my thoughts are racing and relentless. Every thought leads to a spiral of insecurity where I second and third (and fourth and fifth) guess even my simplest thoughts. Sleep isn't any escape either. I don't...

I don't have any children of my own, so I never know what I feel entitled to say/or do in situations that involve other people's parenting skills. However, I do know what it's like to have PTSD and an exaggerated startle impulse, as well as heightened senses. And, as I'm sure many of you...

For months now, I've been having major problems with riding the bus, and I don't drive right now. The bus has been making me dissociate something awful, in addition to filling me with fear and violent imaginings much of the time. But last week for the first time in ages, I just felt like I...

Between ptsd symptoms and hypomania i've experienced lately, my sleep has really taken a hit. I can take up to 250 mg trazodone for sleep, and i can also use melatonin. However, it's so hard for me to accept taking it. it will be time to take it, and I'll just think of all the things that...

So, I've noticed a pattern in some of the people around me, most specifically my mother and this married couple that I know. The problem is that these people will pay lip service to the idea of doing helpful things for me but don't follow through. In my mother's case, I feel like it doesn't...

Not sure what to call this thread, so that will do. I was letting my self-care lapse and lapse and didn't even realize how much until it, along with my self-esteem, had pretty much disappeared. For the past few weeks, I've been having a manic episode, so it was harder to care for myself during...

I have PTSD and also bipolar II. I have been manic for the past three weeks, which is also agitating some PTSD symptoms. I've begun feeling very very ugly and have said a lot of disparaging things to myself about my body. I'm used to those thoughts coming with depression, but I had never...

Like other people here in a couple older threads I read, I experience hypersexuality sometimes. Though I have had a lot of sexual trauma over the years (and have also made choices that just led to me re-injuring myself), I never know know what my hypersexuality and promiscuity are "about." For...

I am struggling very much right now with a kind of superstitious indecision. My adrenaline will spike and I will just sit around freaking out because I am convinced my day will go differently depending on whether I check my email before or after I brush my teeth. Given those conditions, it is...

Though I have a whole barrel full of symptoms right now, perhaps it is trembling constantly that bothers me the most. My psychiatrist has taken me off benzos because I was drinking on them, and I wasn't offered anything different for anxiety. Because of my healthcare, the only way I can see a...