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i just cannot function anymore. i cant think straight. i cant remember anything. im always distracted by everything. if i get started on one thing, within the first minute im already distracted by something else, than something distracts me from that. my mood swings are completely crazy. i have...

i notice it mostly when im sitting in my car. i cant do anything ever without the constant anxious feeling inside me that someone is going to sneak up on me, and than stand there and watch me, and when i turn my head towards the window ill suddenly see them standing right right there beside me...

this past year of my life has been the worst part of my entire 25 years that ive been "alive". i found a guy who i really liked, but he became abusive, he forced me to stay with him by threatening me, strangled me til i blacked out daily for months, constantly screamed at me and degraded me and...

sometimes when i get extremely overwhelmed with negative emotions especially anger, i have really bad outbursts where i lose control of myself and yell and throw things and break things. sometimes i dont remember saying certain things that i supposedly said. or ill find certain things are...

i just moved into a new place and whoever lived here before me brought roaches in here and i am deathly afraid of them. ive done everything to try to get rid of them. ive taped and calk glued all the cracks, taped up the air vents, sprayed eight hundred thousand different sprays, covered...

i had an episode of extreme time loss today, it was so bad that it literally freaked me out. i looked at the clock around 5:00 pm. than i texted some friends, took a shower, and went outside to smoke a ciggarrate. when i got back inside it seemed like about 20 minutes had passed since i checked...

i know memory loss can be a symptom of ptsd for some people, but mine is like to the point where i cant even funtion, and i feel like im losing my mind. i forget major things, like somoene sent me a lot of money and i completely forgot about it for a few hours until something reminded me of it...

for example: there were a few times when something happened which reminded me of things in my past and i ended up in a dissociative state for hours after that. but yet, there are other times like this morning when i was way more overwhelmed and stressed out, but i didnt dissociate this morning...

for example i was talking to someone yesterday and i thought he said something about his friends brother was threatening him with a knife an gonna stab him. and than i was asking my friend about it and told her i wasnt sure if the guy had actually told me that or if my mind had made it up. she...

I survived long term ongoing trauma. and i feel like a part of who i use to be is now dead. sometimes when things got too overwhelmed to cope, a part of me would leave myself and shut down. i didnt care as much, and i didnt feel as much emotion when this happened. than i would come back to...

i notice that when i dissociate, i look a little bit different when i see myself in the mirror. i still look like the same person but i just notice slight differences, like sometimes my eyes look glossy, or my face looks a little bit sunk in, or my jaw looks a tad bit more forward. does anyone...

i know i have ptsd which can cause these depressed moods sometimes but i think i also have bi-polar because i use to get prescribed lamictal which is a mood stabilizer for bi-polar disorder. until i stopped taking it because of the things i heard about it. sometimes i feel happy or at least...

I cannot stand complete silence. can anyone relate? i always have to have at least the sound of a fan on. i get TOTALLY FREAKED OUT if everything is silent. especially when im alone if its night time. every little sound will freak me out. i dont understand how people can fall asleep in the...

i feel like i need to talk to people about it, but whenever the subject comes up im afraid to discuss it because im worried ill have a flashback and start hyperventallating which might scare people, or that my mind might go blank, and ill sit there in awkward silence and make people feel...

when i first started having flashbacks, i didnt know what was going on, i thought i was just losing my mind. but than i learned that it was a flashback and i learned about grounding and stuff. when i have flashbacks it was really difficult to communicate and i started hyperventallating and...

it started about 5 years ago when i noticed 2 of the toes on my right foot were always very cold, but my other toes felt normal. even if i wore 5 pair of wool socks those 2 toes would still be cold. the only thing that helps is when HEAT is applied to those toes, extra socks did not help at...

I can NEVER remember how to get ANYWHERE. even if its like 5 miles away and theres only 4 turns to take. I'd have to dive it every day for a week before i'd remember how to get there. ive lived in the same area for about 5 months, and sometimes if im only 3 miles from my house, i dont know how...

I have c-ptsd from prolonged domestic violence. whenever i leave my house to go anywhere, i always feel like i need to get back after an hour or so. it doesnt make a difference who is with me, or where i am. even when im with people that dont make me nervous, i have friends that i trust, i know...

I feel like i am permanently damaged and changed forever, like ill never go back to being who i use to be. I feel like i can definetely get feeling better by going through therapy, and that it helps me out, but i still feel like ill always be damaged and have issues. i dont feel like the same...

I dont know if this is dissociation or what it is, but i feel like my mind is not with me, like i've completely lost it. i dont remember doing things that i just did 5 minutes ago, i cant hear as good as i usually can, i cant see as good as i usually can, i cant think straight, im messing up the...

I had my shower running for a while just to warm up my room cause the heater wasnt working right. after about 30 minutes i went back in the bathroom to turn the shower off. the tub was pretty full of water (cause the drain has been clogged, but the water still drains down slowly). and i saw...

I know certain things definately happened, but i remember some specific details about the trauma, an im not sure if the some of the details were real or if my mind made up the details. why am i unsure about certain details? anyone else have this problem? how can i know if the details were real...

I have complex ptsd from prolonged domestic violence. i was walking down the street downtown one day towards where my car was parked. and i heard this girl crying, and screaming at the top of her lungs, as this angry mean dude was yelling at her, and wouldn't let go of her. she just kept...

is this normal for girls who have been abused by past boyfriends? i get so anxious around guys that im too nervous to even flirt with them. anyone else have the same problem? i wasn't near this bad before the abuse.

ive done this many times, and i wonder if its a normal occurance for most people who have ptsd. mine is complex ptsd though, which is much more intense and life altering