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    Hypervigilance, feeling safe, startle response/jumping out of my skin every time I hear a noise....

    Aw, heck, I’m honestly considering wrapping my entire house with razor wire....might feel a little safer. Feeling like I’m living in hell. No appetite. Insomnia. Seeing therapist this week. I might be able to get a sign made to put on my door that indicates that someone with PTSD lives here...
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    Should i change my sleeping hours?

    Has anyone tried this with success? Daytime is difficult for me. Nighttime feels safer. Any feedback on sleeping during the day and being up and functional at night?
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    Best friend? feel like leaving....

    My best friend of eight years is driving me crazy....LOL....or maybe I’m really driving myself crazy. I suspect the latter is likely. After grappling with this for awhile, I think her “mommie issues” and my “mommie issues” are colliding. I have choices. If I cut her out of my life...
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    “friends”...are they worth it?

    :confused: WARNING....BIG VENT/RANT BELOW Right now, I feel frustrated and angry at my few friends. The short form is I’ve changed and they ain’t. Got no time for that. I see them as relics, dinosaurs, a collective albatross around my neck. Unkind words, I know. So what...
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    Ex od’d on purpose....

    Found out about his suicide via internet. When we were together, one time he mentioned that if he were to kill himself he would do it with a heroin overdose. I honestly thought he was joking at the time. He was doing good work that was getting him some positive notoriety. But at some...
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    Going low-contact to no-contact with friend

    Can’t take it anymore. I’m not her babysitter. I’ve got a plan to gradually phase things out. I’m seeing my T this week and will discuss matters in depth. Seven-year friendship. Things have built up over the past year or so that are red flags. Stick a fork in me, I’m done! In seven...
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    Can’t cut!

    Well, feel free to laugh. Seriously. Cutting used to work so well for me. Tried to do it a few months ago. Couldn’t make myself. Sounds like such a sad thing, doesn’t it? LOL. Boo-hoo....can’t cut yourself? Poor me! Well, I lost my nerve. Actually afraid of doing permanent and...
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    Rescue dog buddy as therapeutic support...

    I did something wonderful for myself yesterday. I was able to adopt a rescue dog, and she is awesome. Found her through a rescue network and picked her up yesterday. I am so grateful and happy to have this new buddy. She seems so happy....her mood brightens mine. My pdoc said I can bring...
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    Ticked off at best friend....

    ....she just seems incapable of hearing me and she often interrupts. Well, she is not a therapist, so I should reduce my expectations of her. However, I think she projects and her consistent interruptions and assumptions have me boiling. She just left a message and I don't think I am going to...
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    Death Felt sad at grocery over mother's death.

    G@#%_*mmitt! This month has been a tad depressing. Coping with the death of one of my dogs, still can't seem to process my mother's death (it doesn't feel like she is actually gone), and her birthday was this month, and my best friend of seven years doesn't seem to "hear" me when I try to talk...
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    Sick From Anxiety ....

    Well, I've got a major life event coming up within 48 hours. It's related to the death of a family member from h-ll, and I've been stressing over it for months. I've panicked so much over the last several weeks that I finally became febrile Saunday night during an anxiety attack at a...
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