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    Long Time - Update and Encouraging News

    i have been only "in and out" for a while, so i don't know many of you. but i wanted to just stop in and say, "hang in there," it really does get better. i am down to 1 med now, traz to make me sleep some. i intend to go off of it soon. it has been 2 and a half years, and many meds, and lots...
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    Short Stories By Us

    ok, this is not a poem, and i couldn't find another thread for stories. this is actually non-fiction, but a recollection of a happy day in my childhood. One Summer Day One summer day my younger brother, being the adventurous seven-year-old that he...
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    Valentines - Why Is It So Hard To Find a Simple Card?

    why in this world can't somebody make a card for a mother or father that just says, "l love you" and let it go? i spent at least an hr. trying to find a card that didn't have a blatent lie in it. i hate not to send at least a card, they are getting old, and i don't have to be there because of...
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    Webcam?? Anybody Know How To Use It In Chat?

    got it installed, but don't know how to get it on the chat. anybody know how?lol:crazy:
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    Sudden Anger / Frustration Within Me

    i have never had much "temper" nor felt angry very often, which i count as a blessing. all of a sudden this week, i am having trouble controlling my tongue, i want to be snappy, i guess, i usually stop myself and mutter under my breath later. also, when i am very shakey and drop things, can't...
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    Feeling Guilty - Sleep Medication

    Friday night is the only night i feel safe in taking something to make me sleep. si i sleep in on sat. morn. sat. is usuallly my only day to clean, and get groceries. dear husband will pick up groceries if i just cant make it out, but if i don't clean--nobody does(although he does still do his...
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    Tired - A Moment Of Self Sympathy

    i am just so tired of everything, how do you just keep going and going in the face of all this junk. it is so stupid for me to be bogged down with this mess, like my reactions to it could change anything?? tired of being selfish and lazy, tired of being a baby like i am right now.:wall: made a...
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    Cathy's Mental Imagery

    WARNING: If you plan on submitting your own mental imagery interview for assessment, DO NOT read the proceeding first, instead fill out your own interview first, then read these, so your current mental image is not skewed, resulting in a possible inaccurate emotional state being returned to you...
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    Christmas Traditions? Tell Us About Your Part of The World

    just wondering, being as were all from so many different places, about the christmas traditions in your country. they have to be different in the middle of summer than they are here in the winter. care to enlighten me? thanks cathy
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    Go, Do It! If Your American, Then Vote Tomorrow

    y'all that are in usa, go vote tomorrow, it's more than a privilige, it'a our duty!
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    Why Anxious Now? - Funeral Attendance

    I was supposed to go to a funeral today, school was a half day, because the funeral was there. i was going to just change from my uniform and go, but as the day wore on, i was getting shakier and shakier. the funeral was for a past acquaintance, never really what i would call friends, but...
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    Association of Guilt with PTSD - discussion

    http://www.ptsdforum.org/thread1052.html oh, thank you. i have trouble with this one, especially the weakness. i often wonder if other people can go through these things without ptsd, why couldn't i, and why after so long? what waas i doing before, that i'm not doing any more, to let this...
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    Sleep? What's That?

    does anybody else fight sleep? i am taking something for sleep(natural, anthony)but it is not working, i think because i fight it. i have slept about 16-18hrs. last week, total. 0 last night. probably none tonight, i see my therapist tomorrow eve., and i am nervous already. i know what she wants...
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    Made a Mess of Things Again - Want to Commit Suicide

    none xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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    Anybody Out There? I Need Help

    is anybody out there? i dont' know how much longer i can do this.i am feeling very strange.
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    Ready To Scream!

    i don't get angry, but i sure feel agitated right now. my mother called--she is planning a visit here soon, i don't know how i am going to deal with that--and she is bringing me my grandfather's rocker! no talking her out of it. to be fair, she doesn't know about the things he did, but she's...
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    Why Death? All I Think About Is Suicide

    sitting here, shaking, wanting nothing but death. why does it make me feel this way every time i hear him? i feel so scared til i can get myself back together, then i have to shake like this, and thoughts of how to k*ll myself bombarde me nonstop. why do i have to be so preoccupied with death? i...
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    Oddity Here? Can't Remember Faces of Trauma!

    i don't know if i have mentioned this before, but was wondering if it's normal. i know who my abuser was, and i can see him in the flashbacks, but not his face. i realized a while ago, maybe a month, that i couldn't remember what his face looked like. i remember what my grandmother looked like...
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    Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) with PTSD Discussion

    <added by anthony: This thread has been split from the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) with PTSD thread within pain management forum.> very interesting, can i ask you a question? your very last word there...grounding....my t uses it some, but i don't quite understand.is it like keeping your...
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    So Far Down (May Be Triggering s**c*d*)

    i have a lot of trouble with suicial feelings--those "intrusive thought" that just jump at me when i'm driving, etc.(i can usually ignore those-unless i am really down) then there are the thoughts when i get so far down. i take 3 antidepressants, can't take any more med. my husband went out of...
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    I'm New - Someone Make PTSD Stop Please

    hi, i am not sure what to say. i am 49 yrs old and was being treated for this depression for a year. I thought i was losing my mind because of the flashbacks (didn't know what was going on) and the things i could "hear" it still makes me feel crazy. anyway i kept becoming s**c*d*l, and finally...
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