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The best way I can describe my emotional experience is it's a bit like being on a ferris wheel. There are intense highs, intense lows and sometimes the ride gets stuck. When the ride stops that's when I panic. I really need to learn how to cope with the times when things stop, breath and enjoy...

So I guess I felt it was normal being completely emotionally numb for days and then on an emotional roller coaster the follwing days. I thought that's how everyone operated. Now that I know that it isn't normal (for lack of a better word) how in the heck do you acheive balance between the two...

I've only just recently become aware that I suffer from CPTSD from physical and emotional traumas I suffered as a child and as an adult for that matter. For years I've known something was wrong but have never been able to pinpoint it till now. I'm only just beginning to understand and cope with...

Today has been exhausting and the day isn't over yet. I've been going to feeling good and balanced to real low and depressed. Thanks to folks here I've been given some new grounding techniques but even they are becoming hard to do. I know I will win this fight because I have to, but damn what I...

Hi, So glad to have found this forum :) Just recently learned I have CPTSD and everything is a bit overwhelming. I'm grateful to know what I'm up against in order to begin healing, but it's been hard to function as of late. I am committed to getting better and I'm literally crying just knowing...