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I quit smoking three years ago. It helped me feel not only physically well, it improved my mental health too. I am happy for you making it 45 days, the days add up and soon it will be a year.

Thank you for starting this forum Anthony. I tried therapy and I was not ready for the things that the therapist wanted me to face. He was dead on right about what I was in denial about, but I just wasn't ready. I wanted to blame it all on the one trauma instead of visiting the others. I have...

I do not think that these words are interchangeable, they mean different things, but sympathy is not what people here seem to think it is. I am a real word person. Sympathy means a. A relationship or an affinity between people or things in which whatever affects one correspondingly affects the...

Right now I am dealing with my family doing this. There is a lot of denial about what has happened in the past, and anything that is admitted to is downplayed as though it does not matter. I am also being isolated from my family. I think that I may have bought into the line that I have...

Is wanting validation that what happened to you was wrong the same thing as wanting sympathy? I used to have the desire to be rescued, but as I have gotten older I hate the loss of control over myself and my life that being rescued would cost me. I see sympathy as being a pitiable creature...

I quit over 3 years ago

I know that I had symptoms very soon after my father passed away when I was 13. Specifically I stopped feeling and became dissociative almost from the start. I also suppressed thoughts about the event and about my father, in other words I was avoidant in thinking about the trauma from the very...

I would like to thank you all for welcoming me. I am having a hard day. I tried for the first time to get my driver's license and I failed. I have a phobia of driving. I was shaking so hard that the examiner felt sorry for me. He encouraged me to try again very soon, so I am. I am not giving...

I cry often now. It has not always been this way. I laugh at inappropriate things too, things that would make some people cry. The night my father passed away my uncle told me not to cry because my mother needed me to be strong. I was 13 when that happened. I think it short circuited my ability...

I have zipped around the forum and read through how it is organized. I am not sure where to start. I have had one therapist diagnose me with ptsd a few years ago. I thought I could get better by exercising and stress management. I also faced the largest of my demons.. but recently because of...

I usually only wake up in fear and panic when I am unusually stressed, such as relationship problems or money woes. I do not have dreams that cause the panic, it is more like I awaken just enough to think about the things that are troubling me and I become adrenalized. When I have dreams that...