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    Pain, depression, and hopelessness

    This neck pain is rather depressing by this point. I dont know how to afford to exist. Some days I try to be hopeful and watch success videos. But sometimes my pain is too much and I just need to lay down. It's just getting depressing wasting away unable to earn any money to pay bills for...
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    Death Cancer took my love away

    It's been seven months now. She went in for checkups yearly to make sure there was no cancer. She had many unfortunate ER visits complaining about internal pain they could never find. I would go with her. They never found anything although she was getting very sick the last year. By the time...
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    Death My care partner has passed away

    She had been struggling with Familial adenomatous polyposis most of her life. I had been in the hospital with her every day since the beginning of June. She was scheduled for a surgery that was supposed to remove it. But her health took a quick decline and they were concerned she would not...
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    Little understanding from family

    I am trying to stay with family while I try to cope and recover. They don't seem to understand PTSD. They never had to really go through a non civilian experience. It's not the military either. I had to endure some serious duress and the injury I got from trying to just do my job so I could...
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    Musicians with spinal fusion

    I use to play guitar or bass before my spinal cord injury changed how I live. Standing with an instrument is too risky and sitting with it I am only good for 15 or 20 minutes. I noticed at one point when I tried to get out and socialize at a local show with some friends, the vibrations were...
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    Tired of being a burden

    I have tried to hang in there. I have had the worst luck with support. For those who don't know my story, I've had a spinal cord injury twice. First from working, second from a car crash leaving physical therapy for the first time it got injured. So I've had some awful luck. I will need fusion...
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    Getting use to a damaged body

    I have to lay down constantly when my back pain acts up. It doesn't matter what I'm doing. I'm afraid to go anywhere for long for this reason. I had been on job interviews during treatments to help lift my spirits. But it was clear I had physical limitations that excluded me from being a...
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    Dom Violence Accused of gas lighting

    Something been weighing on my mind. It is hard for me to go into as I had been through so much already. But it bothers me so much that I went through it. This person accused me of gas lighting once. I had no idea what he was talking about. My mother had been dating a guy. When I first met him...
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    Wake up angry and in pain

    Or while trying to sleep. The dreams happen. It's the same thing over and over. I was stressed at my job to meet a deadline. I was threatened by one boss if I let myself get hurt, they would find me and throw my body off a roof. And the other boss wanted me to work double time cutting safety...
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    Social security

    I wanted to talk a little about my experience applying for SSDI and how I tried to take my denial of benefits as a hope I wouldn't need it. To try and make a long story short. I have worked labor intensive jobs most of my life. It was not until I had an opportunity to apply for the skilled...
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    Sufferer Spinal Cord Injury

    Hello everyone I had battled against forms of PTSD throughout my life. But it wasn't until I was almost 30 that all my hard work and dedication had been thrown upsidown and ruined by a lazy thug who did not seem to care if the job he wanted me to do would kill or cripple me. If I started from...
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