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That is REALLY Good advice. I like boredom as indicator of processing being done. I've been going through divorce this year and decided to move out of state where life is calmer and fewer memories and less stimuli and expense than NYC. Today I found out that I got approved on a house lease for...

This all so reassuring. I don't know how to deal with it except sleep and reduce input. Maybe therapist has ideas. I wonder why mind can't distinguish. But I am GOING TO BE OPEN TO LOVE AND GOOD THINGS.

I'm just always braced for disaster. My response to kindness and generosity is all confused

Whew. This stuff is complicated. Thanks for kind words. Focusing on resting.

I'm had a super rough past year and in last two days have gotten a lot of good news. This is giving me panic attacks. Is this normal?

is anyone out there to send some reassurance right now i am having a really hideosu panic atack all my tools aren't working please help ca't breathe covered in sweat shaking heart pounding tools not working sorry to bother anyone but need reassurance i'm going to be okay

struggling with this too, big time. Only thing I can manage is breakfast - my afternoons make food feel noxious. I can eat at night a bit so I try then. I know there's a huge biochemical PTSD component to this - in fact, that's 99% of what it is. Have been relying on intstant oatmeal and then...

I'm in a very happy rewarding relationship but we are dealing with a lot of stress due to life stuff (work etcetera) while I go through ptsd treatment. Anyone have thoughts on good ways to care for each other and ourselves as a couple during this process?

Thanks everybody for the encouragement. I did feel a bit better when I talked to my therapist - she said I'm doing really well and everything I'm experiencing is normal for the process. 100% normal. it made me feel good, then I stopped believing her when I woke up this morning to another anxiety...

@JEKBreatheandBelieve - Thank you for your empathy...it's good to know I'm not alone. I'm definitely taking on bigger issues..I mean, WAY bigger deeper harder issues that I couldn't even approach a few months ago. And my panic attacks, while unremitting, are always an opening to do work on the...

Just checking in with folks for some reassurance that the dips and hard times can get better? Am i (at four months into therapy) making progress getting to the big stuff, or am I losing ground? For a while I was doing really well with weekly therapy and acupuncture and was starting to feel a...

I'm so happy to hear this. it's so generous of you to come back here and give a good news report. I'm terrified at the moment that I won't get better and this gives me the hope I needed. Thank you - AND CONGRATULATIONS.

@Casey_03 after running six rape crisis shelters for decades, i'm well aware I don't have a monopoly on trauma. we ran on a shoestring budget, and the police rarely cared. I.e. unprocessed kits. The billions spent on this show could actually be spent in ways that benefited survivors of trauma...

they've shut down eight blocks for this, with the crew and actors laughing around the food services trucks, and a general atmosphere of entertainment complex. My heart goes out to myself - i don't even know how I'm going to get to therapy because the've shut down the subway stop and closed the...

Thanks Ed. Yes, for years I worked with survivors, interfacing with law enforcement and fbi and the show is utterly unrealistic. now i work professionally as an activist in bringing these issues into popular awareness, and there are ways to do this without the profit driven salaciousness of this...

This makes me so furious I can't stand it. Another day of gunshots and fake rapes and women screaming. I have gone beyond triggered into a state of fury. I'm getting ready for my morning therapy around sexual violence, meanwhile this society is busy providing the lucrative commodity of violence...

if anybody has any grounding exercises I'd love to hear them. Sorry to be such an amateur with this. I just have breathing and that's it. Holding something cold or hot.

Thank you @Panda Bear. This wasn't my somatic therapist who understands ptsd - this was my divorce couples counsellor who triggered me and she apologized and said I could talk to her today but I'm scared of her now because I don't think she knows how to talk me down. My trauma therapist hasn't...

Is this normal for being overloaded by triggers?

Waiting to hear back from my therapist. I saw her yesterday. My grounding is breathing and positive self-talk....not quite fitting the bill. Definitely stress cup @FridayJones do I just wait for it to pass?

I'm feeling much worse. Can't get a grip on these triggers. Panic attack since 4pm yesterday can't keep food down. Complete depression. Don't want to keep going

You are all so very kind. And wise. I am having worse and worse time of it as day goes on. So hopeless. I am trying to be kind and self care but I am so furious with myself for being terrified. I am working so hard and the pain keeps getting worse I'm terrified there's no end to this and I'll...

Thank you. It never occurred to me that I did well. I guess I need to be more patient with the recovery process. I feel like if I'd done really well then I wouldn't feel this way. But I'll work on separating the two. I'm angry at myself that I wasn't better prepared and stronger to weather all...

I'm horribly depressed and afraid I'm going backwards after a pretty stable month. I'm so scared. I can't get out of the past - I am stuck there and can't pull myself out. I feel so lost and hopeless. I thought i was making progress. Now I feel like i"m back at square one. December was pretty...

I just can't take this - why did I open this can of horrible stuff. Flashbacks last night after being triggered by what was supposed to be a relaxing children's movie, fell asleep but hideous anxiety attacks this morning, and i'm exhausted. what's the point. I cry and let the cork out and...