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I'm wondering if anyone else has the same problem with this that I seem to have? I have a bad habit of sharing too much about my issues with family, bad experiences and things that have happened in the past with people I don't know very well, but like. Just got back from a fabulously fun and...

I put a question mark at the end of the subject heading, as I'm honestly not sure whether what I experience when yet another tragic shooting or act of terror occurs in the world, as with the latest Charlie Hebdo situation in Paris, is due to ptsd or compassion fatigue, but there are simply too...

This just in...https://news.vice.com/article/breaking-gunmen-displaying-islamist-flag-take-hostages-in-sydney?utm_source=viceanzfb I know this is just normal for some countries, and in America, hostages and shootings are quite common place, but here....not so much. Hopefully the people involved...

It has been brought to my attention recently, that I, at times, seem to have issues with respecting boundaries with people whom I feel are not listening to me, or wilfully manipulating me. An example of this is recently, I experienced having a 'friendship' end over a situation that occurred...

I consider this a success and an accomplishment, as I did not react. I did not show fear and I did not allow the anger that came up in me to overwhelm and act aggressively when it was clear I and my friends were being very aggressively approached by two guys who were looking to start something...

I've managed to talk myself out of beating myself up, though I was being quite brutal earlier...but I just keep saying "Beating myself up won't change the fact that he took all my money tonight and it will only make me feel even worse about it, when I already felt humiliated, impotent, stupid...

I've been living in this bungalow, which has served me very well for the last 2 years, and I do love this space. The issue I have is that the man who owns the bungalow, whom I am helping pay for his mortgage by paying rent to him and his wife (who just left him) still has not attended to and...

I've noticed a lot of it here and was constantly being accused of attacking people in another forum I once frequented, when from my point of view I was being blunt. How is it that so many people think that being challenged or having someone direct an expression of frustration at them means they...

I've noticed that my anxiety levels have increased and I am affected more often by the sense of real panic in my solar plexus area, as with the report the other day of the ebola outbreak, amidst all the other stuff going on in Gaza and the middle east currently. It feels like it's all just...

I'm interested to hear how different people feel about fair weather friends. Do you tolerate them, or eliminate them all together? I had an interaction earlier, with someone I have shared a lot of my personal life with, and thought we were fairly close, even though I knew that he has major...

So, today I was supposed to meet up with a guy I've recently hooked up with on friday night. We met about a month ago and got along quite well. He asked me out to a movie and then it never happened. He texted a few times to say he had gone and gotten drunk with his friends and was in no state to...

I'm just wondering if there are any people here who take things literally, regularly? I was just discussing something with some people from the mra, and this one guy said, quote "Women are human beings of the female sex, and feminists are idealogues who follow an ideology." Now, to me that...

Feeling pretty disturbed right now. I logged onto facebook and a friend had posted an article with an image of a man who sexually assaulted two women up the road from where I live. The image looks so much like my little brother it's uncanny. I don't know that it is him of course, and we aren't...

I woke up this morning aware of the way my father had pathologized me and used my issues as a way of avoiding looking at his own behaviour, and what part it had to play in the destruction of our relationship. It lead me to google the word 'pathologize' and look into the various ways in which...

I woke up this morning aware of the way my father had pathologized me and used my issues as a way of avoiding looking at his own behaviour, and what part it had to play in the destruction of our relationship. It lead me to google the word 'pathologize' and look into the various ways in which...

I know we've already covered the symptom many of us have had living with ptsd, where we go to talk and it comes out as word salad, and makes us all look dumb or feel dumb. I'm wondering if there are any people here who have also had the experience of hearing someone speak about a certain...

Enquiring minds wanna know...? After the train wreck that was the Vulnerability thread, I thought I'd start afresh. What are some ways that clients and survivors can handle their therapists when confronted with this suggestion, without causing friction in the relationship? Would it just be a...

I have seen threads here talking about various illicit substances, like MDMA in a therapeutic context...but with all the talk about how much Ayahuasca has been helping so many people in the world for the last few years, including people living with PTSD, I'm surprised I haven't seen anything...

I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this and if it is normal for people living with PTSD or CPTSD to experience this? I feel like I used to be able to really appreciate everyone around me, and then suddenly I wasn't. It really disturbed me, and other people picked up on it as well and...

I'm not actually sure it has to do with PTSD at all, or CPTSD as I was told I have (though didn't really believe it for about 8 years after that.) but I seem to have great trouble sticking with reading through information online, when researching any subject. I feel like I am faced with a...

I'm about to bleed, which doesn't help I know, and it's a rainy day again, which adds to the melancholia...but, it's also my mothers birthday, and I'm feeling pretty upset about not speaking to her. The last time I tried to send her a birthday message, or xmas message, I received nothing but...

I'm wanting to move on from this experience, but it still keeps lingering and so to avoid being told to 'let go' by friends, I am going to rant about said experience for a while here, until I feel it is out of me enough. So, this is basically a vent...and it's a bit long so thankyou in advance...

I'm just wanting to learn a bit more about this particular side effect of living with cptsd or ptsd. I was just given some feedback by a life coach I've been following for a while on the internet, that my thinking on a certain subject was a bit rigid and binary, and I have had similar feedback...

I was speaking with a good friend the other day about how I have a major block towards researching on the internet. I think it stems back to how I would find it so hard to retain information long enough to regurgitate it again to others in conversation. Things came out all jumbled and I felt...

As the title enquires, I am curious to know how people who have cut themselves off from abusive family members deal with the guilt (if they feel guilt) of their decision? It is something I am struggling with at the moment, and I know it is weakening to be stuck in guilt, so I want to release it...