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I started dissociating many years after I had been treated for PTSD I do not think in my case it was due to the PTSD I had a psychotic break due to untreated postpartum psychosis. After that break I had 15 people inside me every one of which had a different job or function. So when I dissociated...

You are taking the phrase "if it doesn't kill you it makes you stronger" in the literal sense. I agree with your physiological findings. That has been proven by medical science. But this phrase is not literal. This comes from a point in your journey that when you have reached it you will...

Can you believe Wellbutrin was the weight gain culprit with me 35 pounds in a year. It is supposed to be one that helps you lose weight. Now my eating disorder is all out of control and morphed from Bulimia to Anorexia!

When my book was released and I got ten copies in the mail and I was so speechless I had actually done something and that day for my daily bible quote this was posted ( since you said you talked to a minister I do not think this will offend you, forgive me if it does but it seems like I should...

The sense of touch. It has a wonderful but sometimes eerie linger to it. Be that as it may the human body was designed to touch. The largest organ is actually your skin. It can feel the slightest breeze. I have been where you are. I wanted so badly for it NOT to be any kind of issue. But I am so...

I got an email that they werre accepting articles for a newsletter they are trying to roll out and I submitted an article on Hypervigilance.

Yeah I felt so bad my wedding night I loved my husband so much and that gift I could have gave him was ripped from me. They think well it could of been worse they are trying to rationalize it. They need to see the actual damage and scars it has left. but because you kept all your body parts your...

Yes I have scars from those words. But I learned to speak up and told them that a small scratch can get infected and kill a person. So the damage that you bear from the abuse is real and it is there.

I was diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder it took a lot of medicine to keep me in my right mind. I was over medicated for 8 years from the time they added that last Anti psychotic I was an impenetrable numb. I dissociated from everything in y life first thing I did was to separate...

Maze, I so know what you mean about being a child inside. From childhood to 32 I was very much thinking how can I do "this grown up thing" I am just a little girl?" What I learned in therapy is that is a true inner child. And we have to learn to parent our inner child to help them learn and grow...

prolongrd exposure is a joke it just traumatizes you over again when I wrote my story I had to edit it and edit it I read that story so many times I hadn't had flashbacks or nightmares in like 20 years but reading it over and overr just made me whacked.

I was a military wife when ptsd took me down.cant say i had much of a life hubby gone a lot. when he was home depended on him for everything man I was so co-dependent I could have been his doppel ganger but he was on maneuvers when I crashed and called a suicide crisis line. They calmed me down...

see you rescued your dog! fight those thoughts and keep every negative person out of your life just tell them you have enough negative thoughts you don't need theirs ao call them, write them,email them, text them but set a firm boundary!

Nighthawk is that your dog in the Picture? is he/she a service dog? Animals look at people so differently. They don't know human thoughts but they are very empathetic and know when a human is hurting. My dog is not a service dog he is an American Cocker Spaniel. But he knows when I need lovin's...

OK I'm new Anthony so what does all that mean? I don't know what PC stands for and I am unaware of a problem. I like coming here and do not want to lose the privilege. Could you tell me what I have done wrong from the bold type it indicates this is a "strong better be listened to statement" but...

Probably true but really that's what therapists do too. i lived undiagnosed for 25 years.Then had the best therapist anyone could ever have an I DID THE WORK, THE HARD GOING THROUGH MENTAL HADES shredding an old life to find a new passageway through I still live with the fallout. But I am...

I did not mean to make it look like I wanted to make money off my illness I just needed skills that therapy didn't teach me. And to be able to go out in public assured of myself I would go to a person (if they were in my price range) because some of the issues that I personally need to work on...

Sun Seeker, Excellent Ideas! For the Parenting Course I can use the motto i have lived by in my own way to parent...You can't just do it "better than Your Parents and think everything will turn out okay You Have to Do it Right! I have heard so many times "At least I didn't do to my kids what my...

falling_wave you should be proud of yourself not only for the breakthrough but also for sharing that you had to go through a rough time to get there. I had to learn to appreciate my breakthroughs. At first I was like whew glad I made it through that but I had a wonderful therapist and she would...

This is a scary feeling , well maybe not to some people but I am in charge of my life for the first time in my life. It makes me want to come completely out of the cocoon!

Actually I am going to try and do something about this. I'm going to go to school to learn n how to to be able to guide a person into being a well rounded person and be that person that helps people like us with these kinds of issues. Yes! That's what I am going to do! There is a void that we...

I am glad I did too. I think we just silently try to push our way through a world that may know our diagnosis but have no idea with little things they learned as children that we have to learn and integrate as adults.

Thank you so much. I want to learn about all the things people needed to learn especially after therapy and find a way to help them. I just remember this vast wasteland between me and society. Because they can never comprehend that you were so abused that finding a hiding place was more...

I went through PTSD therapy for 3 years with great results. That was in 92-95. After therapy i felt pretty assured of my mental health.but there was like this vast wasteland between me and society. It was just things I never learned as a child that I needed help in a few areas but there was no...

I do not think there has been a breakthrough in any area of sleep. I have to medicate to sleep. Wish it was not so but it was stay up for days and lose my mind and not be a functional human being or medicate since I have a daughter functional was the operative word. But you are right I have not...