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I am having a period where, after a while of functioning pretty well, I seem to be going backwards. My neighbours are nuts. They have, seemingly, a bottomless supply of children. they are knocking on the door at all hours of the day and night, sending the dog nuts, interrupting my sleep, as I...

Who (else) here has ended up being, at least temporarily, the quintessential bum on the streets? I have been in the past. The way people care for those less fortunate fills my heart with joy... (kick) Met LOTS (I'd say at least 25%) of people who have *major* PTSD symptoms, so I know there must...

When people talk about "Family Values" they never talk about mine, it might make their brain short circuit (makes MINE short circuit). Yeti is my female object (my Abominable Snowmum) and Dud is my male object (my Dud). People who say "Blood is thicker than water" must have come from another...

I've always had a problem with sabotaging myself. In relationships things can be going along well and then I do something insane (and out of character) and it ends. If anything good happens, I can't seem to handle it. Do I have a subconscious death wish? Sometimes I think I do. Scott

Has anyone had the problem I run into all the time Peole ask what happened between Yeti and I, and after the first 5 words I lose them, they think I must be bullshitting. or Im exaggerating. It's as frustrating as hell. Scott

I have a colossal social phobia. 0 social skills, etc. I had PTSD while everyone else had a social life. Sometimes I wonder if I'm autistic. It's that bad. I dread answering the door, and not because the knocking sends me through the roof (sometimes it does). I just have no idea what to say. I...

I have intergenerational trauma throughout both sides of my family. Yeti's grandmother was married to someone who came home from WW1 and became an alcoholic. Maybe he bacame an alcoholic after he had discovered just what he had married (by most accounts she was ... temperamental). Yetis mother...

When you started treatment, eg. medication, etc., how long did it take before everything settled down and you could at least function? This is really crippling me at the moment. Not to mention pissing me off. Scott

Does anyone know of any link between PTSD and Altzheimer's disease? I have Altz. in both sides of my family Scott

One of the things that irritates me about ptsd in the wider community, is the view that if you can't get over something, it must be your fault and you must be weak or defective somehow. Some people try to 'toughen you up' which doesn't help... I hate that. Scott

I used alcohol to remember. Now i know I'm weird lol. I used alcohol to get to a state where i could remember what happenned but without the usual inhibitions. I was a fairly erratic drunk and it was getting WORSE. I would frequently dissociate into an 'out-of-body' experience. Has anyone else...

I've been derealising and depersonalising sinc as long as i can remember. I can remember at 4 years old wondering what the difference between dreams and reality was. There wasn't much difference for me. When i get really stressed out i feel as though i am floating above myself looking down at...

Have any of you wondered how much your trauma has taken over your identity? I have. It seems as though i am "becoming" my trauma. It's all i think about. Yeti is always in my head. I really feel like i am grasping at it and i should be letting go of it. She really was that bad though, I've...

I know everyone's different, but... I am about to start a new psych. (I moved) and I am interested what medications/combination helped you most and what did it help most with? I must admit Effexor is a pain in the arse, *MAJOR JUMPINESS AND INSOMNIA* and am back on Zoloft. Scott

For those of you who have PTSD as a result of your parents, would you let your parents see your children? (Assuming you have any) I might let Dud see mine, *supervised* but I'm not sure I would even enlighten Yeti that she was officially a FN old bag (an antigrandmother)... I've actually been...

What cant you get out of your mind? I cant seem to get over one "therapist" saying all I did was bitch about my mother. Very next question was why i had a social phobia. I have visions of bludgeoning him to death... Scott

For those of you who have (c)PTSD as a result of an abusive treatment during childhood, have your abusers ever expressed any guilt? Mine havn't expressed any. Yeti the Abominable Snowmum, diagnosed (ie by a psychologist) NPD, has certainly not expressed any. She tells people she feels guilty...

Has anyone managed to "get over" their symptoms to the extent they hardly ever even think about them, and how did you do it? (I'm *SO FAR* from that it's not funny the symptoms are part of, and completely hinder everyday life for me at the moment in just about every area...) Did EMDR work/get...

Having a look at the pre-print DSM5, I think most (if not all) of my symptoms and sequele are nicely summed up in the "Developmental Trauma" diagnosis. Anyone else here (esp. those with parents who have personality disorders?) What to do about it is another story. Scott

Hi, I'm Scott and 39 living in Australia. Both parents have NPD (*diagnosed*) and I had a reasonably chaotic and traumatic childhood. I received a diagnosis of (c)PTSD around 8 years ago. I'm hoping to get at least some support from this board :-) Thanks, Scott