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    Getting Off Medication

    Has there been a thread about how people get off meds well? I've tried many methods and recently went cold turkey as im sick of meds and want to DIY. I've come off the max dose of Cipramil and have been having brain "rushes" which im taking flaxseed oil for and it seems to take the edge off. i...
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    News Taking Back Control After Rape

    CAROL Stingel tidied her hair with trembling hands as the jury filed back into court. She closed her eyes as the judge's associate rose to ask the foreman the verdicts. Had Geoff Clark raped her in the Warrnambool Botanical Gardens in March 1971? The foreman's voice was so low that only those...
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    Help! Seeing A New Shrink Again

    Today i go see another psychiatrist. I really do - not want to go. I've written before about my generally negative, on-off relationships with therapists. How many times do i have to tell my sad and sorry tale of woe? How can i sit there and with a wooden face explain that i feel suicidal...
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    Has Anyone Done Self-Defense Courses and Been Triggered?

    Hi, Just wondering if anyone else on the forum has experience with doing self-defence type courses or martial arts and if that has helped with the PTSD and "feeling safe"? I have been advised to do one for years but when i tried it years ago i found that it was too triggering at the time and...
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    Dreams and Memories Unplugged

    Something that interests me is how PTSD not only does stuff to your memory as in you remember stuff you've repressed and you can also have current memory gaps for no reason when dissociating, but that DREAMS are so extroadinarily vivid and that we DO remember dreams in such detail. I've talked...
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    Dissociation A Mass Social Epidemic?

    Wondering if anyobe else has noticed all the recent movies dealing with dissociation/PTSD type topics lately? eg Memento, Fight Club, etc. As a social scientist, I think it is because they touch a nerve in our society, so many of us are familiar with the patterns of dissociation after trauma...
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    PTSD for 9 Years - Abducted, Raped and Prostituted

    Hi all, I've had PTSD for the last 9 years. It came on as memories returned after the birth of my second child, of being abducted, raped and prostituted by a gang when I lived in the US as a child, when I was 15. I'd remembered a little bit about the first rape but had repressed the rest of...
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