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    Medical Medical Trauma In Childhood

    1) Which medical illness/accident/medical prosedures did you have? At first, the doctors didn't know what I had, "told my parents all my head". After 2 months of throwing up, my appendix exploded. The surgery was an experimental. Just say I had a button on my skin and open wound. My greatest...
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    Medical Medical Trauma In Childhood

    I had a raptued appendix sounds easy and clean. But the Doc's didn't know what I had and did a hysterectomy. I spend and whole month in the hospital and I was four. Year later my loving brother tried to hang me. I got sleep paralysis at six or five. I couldn't smell rubbing alcohol it would get...
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    Am I A "mooch"/(beggar)?

    They basically told me I'm disable but not enough. Be a dishwasher the rest of you miserable life.
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    Poll Which Parts Of Your Life If Affected Most By Ptsd?

    Work. My boss once told me to go with him to get coffee, I went crazy. Eventually, I got fired. Friends never had any. Birthday never had one. Should say just relationships.
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    Non Suicidal

    One year in therapy, and one year since I knew I had PTSD. Good to have someone to talk to. BUT, I had PTSD since I was four. My foundation is built on PTSD. I'm having trouble building a new life without PTSD. Impossible. I can't get myself back to work without borderline coming. Borderline...
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    Please Help Figure Out How To Get Hei'm 26 With No Money, No Job And Cptsd Has Ran Rapid On My Brain

    With my bouts with PTSD. My unemployment time was my best time. I got no sickness during those time, no stress. Drugs is another issue for me. Hang in there. People with PTSD are stronger than the sheep.
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    Stood Up For Myself To My Boss

    I know what it's like to be scapegoated. I'm proud of you.
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    One Year Since I Found Out I Had Ptsd

    I had PTSD since I was four years old. I found out I had PTSD last year and I'm in my 40's. I never heard the name PTSD until last year. I had sleep paralysis. What is cool. I know the name of the issues I had. I also have social anxiety, borderline, and SPD. It was around this time I found out...
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    Other 5 Mental Illnesses

    I'm a tad drunk. I lived a crazy life with 5 mental illness. I know I have PTSD. I can't concentrate. I can do hundred of things and think a million things at one time. I pulled a name out of a hat. I can't tell you what this means. I fooled every one. I was 5 years old, I couldn't sleep...
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    Bad Memory

    I know I have PTSD, but I had it at a very young age. I got diagnosed with 4 mental illness including borderline which is trauma related. I scored low for PTSD but my concentration is bad and I thought it was good. But I think of several things at the same time without focus. I think I have good...
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    Poll How Do You Self Medicate?

    Weed and Alcohol, with some Meth.
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    Music

    I still have many PTSD issues suicide, negative teenage stuff even though I'm 47. I listen to punk rock and alternative music which discuss those issues. I brought it up and my therapist says I should listen to something more positive. I don't like rap or country music. Surprisingly, the reason...
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    Poll Do You Believe That PTSD Affects You Physically and Mentally? If so, How?

    I have to put it in two categories because I'm sooooo complex. One directly, I get more cold and autoimmune sickness. I get sinus attacks where I get mucous in my ears causing tinnitus. I use to think this was stress related and it is but with the PTSD issues as well. Indirectly. I got my PTSD...
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    Marijuana

    Weed is the best for me. It makes me more outgoing and more confident. It also lets me sleep. Alcohol - I quit. It makes me unpredictable angry or happy. Meth - I thought it would make me happy and euphoric. It made me more isolated and other issues. Speed - Just got me sick. Mushrooms -...
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    Snooze Button

    I would try an apple it moves the muscles in your mouth around and wakes you up. Don't do what I did and try an upper. Also don't try to drive faster and make it to work faster. I've driven on the shoulder of the road before. I have borderline issues as well.
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    Poll Has PTSD Caused You To Attempt Suicide?

    I've done many high risk adventures and some suicidal and some thinking it would lead to suicide. The first attempt I think was 12 when my dad went on a military mission and I swallowed a bunch of pills. One stupid thing I did I bought a gun and I started shooting and hoping someone would shoot...
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    Anybody Try Imaginary Parents?

    I say try it. I raised myself a PTSD sufferer 5 years old raising himself. When someone tells me my parents did a bad job on me, I tell them I did the best I could.
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    Poll Ptsd Nightmares?

    I got my PTSD young in age. My first nightmare was seeing peoples heads cut off and the heads were moving. I was around 5 or 6. I don't know of kids that young thinking of these things. I didn't realize until recently why the heads seem to be uncomfortable. Someone put sand in their eyes. I...
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    Poll How Many Hours Per Day Do You Lose To Ptsd Symptoms?

    2-3 hours per day. There was a time I used to brag about living thru some of it like I was superman.
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    Working While Having Ptsd And Borderline?

    I'm interested in people with PTSD and borderline issues because I'm one. I have a high anxiety with people. When I tried to go to clubs and bars as a young one, I would get extreme paranoid because of the noise and people. Borderline makes you enjoy some risk that PTSD only people won't do?
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    Does Anyone Else Mask Their Anxiety?

    I have borderline, but I put my anxiety in the unconscious level. I started to feel my anxiety again and it sucks. My therapist wants for me to feel them and deal with those anxiety.
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    Poll PTSD And Hearing Problems

    Yes. I use to play the music sooo loud to destroy my hearing. When I was a kid and had hyper sensitive hearing I couldn't study, read, etc.
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    Tinnitus And Sinus Problems

    I don't know if other people have the same issue with PTSD and pressure (work and school). Now that I'm awaking up from another suicide issue. I have no pressure from work and school, and I realize I have no tinnitus and sinus issue. I was fighting this for 12 years, of course, I didn't know I...
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    On Losing A Career

    I have PTSD with BPD and once my team mates bullied me hell broke loose. LOL. Sad, but I have a sense of humor.
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    Scared In Dealing With Job Interviews

    The hardest part for me is going to the interview. I use to drive around the place of the interview and many times didn't show up. The anxiety of going in and meeting new people is too high of a burden.
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