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I was essentially abducted from my house by an ambulance crew ordered by my parents many years ago. The fact it happened in my house, and that I have never gotten away, means that nearly everything remotely connected to that event is a major trigger of flashbacks. I've been trying to manage...

I am sorry you are going through what you are going through right now. I face a similar fate right now, realizing inside for the first time how an inner child feels neglected and forced by other people's anger into an involuntary psych unit. That's not the only time my parents betrayed me. It...

That was an interesting article. I wish they gave more specifics on the parts of the brain -if they studied that - but I think the study was more behavioral. I know that as someone who has been faced with sudden stress causing bursts of noise, I am very high alert when anything loud even...

I can't say this definitively but I would say the risk is not as severe as you have shared. At most serotonin receptors seroquel is an antagonist - meaning it blocks the serotonin from binding. In my experience seroquel has helped off set some of the ssri side effects of whatever ssri I am on...

I skipped a dose on my lamictal, the other day and this morning and that - combined with family dysfunction (my parents taking my phone first thing in the morning, leaving me high and dry and my dad in another pissed off mood) - led me to elbow a hole in a door in a burst of instanteous reaction...

This month is going to be hell. 1) It resembles the time of year my most horrific and recent trauma occurred: All of a sudden one night being told by my parents I had to go to the hospital, and within minutes having an ambulance crew come and after some time and freaking out, being tied to an...

Maybe this applies to any kind of trauma, but there's a storm forming - and where you used to like storms- this one feels like it will lead to some catastrophic life event. Maybe that's me just expecting catastrophic life events to happen every night tho.

FWIW, here's the myptsd thread on grounding https://www.myptsd.com/threads/grounding-101.12459/

Or when recording the major traumatic events that happened in one year time span is too daunting, because there were too many different ones - and you don't want to return to the ones you're temporarily blocking out.

You know you have complex trauma when, in the middle of a flashback at night, you have to remind yourself you are not in the hospital being traumatized - just so you can return the flashback you are having in your house because you were traumatized there too.

I happened to come across Peter Levine's 'In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness' at the library. I was briefly familiar with his work through youtube videos and the term Somatic Experiencing, but I didn't realize how literally physical it all is. He spends...

Wow. I had almost the exact same experience - same styrofoam cups, no strings, deserted 'activity rooms with no art supplies, no NOTHING - except it lasted for four months and was completely against my will. . . . Its kind of the trauma that keeps me coming back here now and again (well the...

I've been on seroquel a long time, and very briefly tried switching to risperdal. Honestly Risperdal didn't do much at all, just made my thinking kind of fuzzy. It doesn't have nearly the sedating effects of Seroquel, and it is generally not considered among the big weight offenders as far as...

It's a good thing to remember that Xanax is a very short acting benzodiazepine. I should look it up, but its half life is only about 4-6 hours, meaning its out of your system quick when you take it. Ativan is probably a lot better. I've become pretty much married to about 2 mg klonopin. Its...

My mother neglected, harassed and generally made my life miserable during a period of time when I was experiencing extreme physical pain and stress and needed help from my parents with a lot of small things. It was a sustained passive aggressive set of behavior (in my view anyway) In addition...

I'll try to provide the briefest of bios I can. I came down with a serious illness in 2009, family ignored me the whole time. Because I have had autoimmune problems my whole life, it lead to serious pain which I was able to semi-keep under control until the biggest of onslaught of stress I...

No, its alright to ramble, sometimes you need to do that just so you can see all the things weighing on your mind and body. I'm sorry you're going through so much. I"ll have to to read over this to see if I have any health advice or can relate to any of it.

That's exactly how my life is right now. If I really sat down and was honest about how I really don't think I can live long term with what I have (a deep seated infection and horrible autoimmune pain) I would freak out, I mentally wouldn't be able to deal with it, and would be terrified someone...

A written statement before hand might help a lot. You can explain the link between hospitals and anxiety if you want. I sometimes like to get the new patient paperwork from the office days before so I can fill it out at home, and not right before the appointment. I also have a big fear of...

Were you committed involuntarily? I won't even begin with my experience with involuntary commitment. That is my fear of calling the actual crisis line, because the one time they did come - and I called them on my own, and they decided to send a team out - they almost forced me to go to the...

@Purplemunchkin I don't think it wasn't necessarily that they didn't want to handle a crisis, but the article wanted to highlight that they would much prefer reaching a person at a state where they are just weighed down by their problems and need to talk, than getting a call from one of the...

I was reading an article about New York's crisis lines awhile ago, and they were saying they really want to catch people "upstream", i.e. people who haven't thought much about suicide, who are just having their first thoughts about it, rather than downstream where it is a chronic part of their...

Its the holiday season for me, which, when not in denial, means some of the emotion the two Decembers I spent in the states horrific involuntary mental health hospital in a row - 2010 and 2011, are part of the mix of my fear and outrage right now, but mainly its being around the parents that did...

If I just curl up in a ball, hide underground and nobody f*cking touches me or throws me into a hospital for the next month- then my holidays would be ten times better than any I have experienced in the past four years. 3 years ago I was torn out of my house, bound down to a stretcher by my...

Dental surgery has got to be pretty scary to begin with. And anxiety certainly makes pain worse, it amplifies the pain message. But I think the main problem from what you described is the surgery you had where you woke up in the middle of that. Your brain is probably doing all it can to...