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I am trying to hold the people who abused me accountable because they continue to abuse small children to this day and it has to stop. I have reached out to other families who have left that mess but are still being effected. They have agreed to help but are still reeling from everything they...

I am 21. I turn 22 the 26th. I am in therapy and I have been diagnosed with PTSD, ADHD, OCD, anxiety, depression and possibly bipolar.

I admitted today that I am not ready to move on from my trauma because I was not given proper time to process it. So I called my friends and explained this to them and asked them to just be present with me as I do this. I am pretty proud of this because I have been trying to go at everyone...

Yeeeah this is me

Does anyone else struggle with being clingy? I think I have a good idea as to why I do but I am not sure. If you are comfortable sharing, what causes your clingyness?

Why would I want to? He's nice...I just have boundary issues...

I am going to therapy. Thanks ^_^

Thanks

So I am attempting to set some healthy boundaries. I took two teeny tiney steps in the right direction. 1) I set a boundary with church. If I don't feel up to going, I don't go. This means if I am physically not ok (sick or sleep deprived or something else along those lines) or mentally not ok...

Thank you. I totally agree. It's just nice hearing someone say it too.

Sadly I don't have any friends that understand or family that understand either. My therapist somewhat gets it. She's very nice but she tries to keep me in the here and now when I haven't even processed the past! So I'm going to talk to her.

So then that leads me to the question: how does one set appropriate boundaries?

cool!

I probably should have been more clear. I was severely emotionally abused and sexually assaulted and sexually bullied on multiple occasions. That is how I got PTSD. We lack good boundaries in my house so it is very hard to separate my stuff from theirs. I will have a talk with them about it...

I was pushed up against a wall and forced to make out with a guy. A girl stuck her hands down my pants and God knows what else! A guy touched me inappropriately after I repeatedly told him "no." Plus a ton of other sexual bullying. I was never raped though so I don't feel like any of this is...

*sigh* This is not what I was hoping for tbh. I have been dealing with other people's crap for so long and last time I got PTSD from it! I know that won't happen again but why do I have to keep shouldering the consequences and the weight of other people's poor choices?

When you forgive someone is it a one and done thing? Or can you forgive someone and then anger keeps coming back so you have to forgive them again? Can you be angry at someone and still have compassion on them? I am so angry at my abusers because I am left with the consequences of THEIR actions...

I was abused in high school and no one believed me when I said something was wrong. My parents refused to take me out of the school and to this day they refuse to admit what happened despite me being diagnosed with PTSD and despite seeing the effects of the PTSD. Will this affect my recovery...

I was diagnosed by a therapist with PTSD....I had read somewhere that C-PTSD is not in the DSM so I didn't think that therapists would diagnose you with it.

I have been reading them and I love it. :-) I do have a therapist. Thanks so much. :-)

I can't relate to love outside of fear and violence. Anything having to do with love outside these parameters is confusing to me. What do I do? Does anyone else feel the same.

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How do you know if you have complex PTSD or PTSD?

In my experience a lot of Christians do not understand PTSD and they are not willing to especially outside the confines of the Bible. It's like once they learn you have been wronged they push you to forgive before you are ready. They push you to do this, they push you to do that and most of the...

agreed :-(