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  1. Mee

    Art Thread

    Yes, my budget is not that stretchy this year- it’s been a really expensive year :(
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    What Did You Eat And Drink Last?

    Muesli and honey yogurt. Muesli and yogurt is my no brain breakfast when the stove is off. I think from the weekend onwards I’ll be in - ‘cannot think? Eat porridge’ season.
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    Art Thread

    Well, I have always appreciated your art .
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    Last movie or tv series you watched?

    The Guillermo dell Toro series on Netflix- I think it’s called cabinet of curiosities. We have only one left. We’ve both had nightmares from them so I will not watch them after 8pm
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    Sufferer Courtney here: Anxiety, PTSD & ED

    Welcome:)
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    Art Thread

    Just our work or art we love? I bought DH a painting for Christmas ( nothing that fancy - just a cat picture I bought from eBay cheaply but the artist is well known so it was an exciting bargain) and it needs a new frame. Because I’m not terribly fond of cat paintings 😂 I’m finding it...
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    One Thing That Made You Smile Today?

    Finding out that nightmare rescue dog loves wearing a t shirt - I think she might benefit from a thunder vest.
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    What Did You Eat And Drink Last?

    Wasabi peanuts and grapefruit soda . Weird but compelling combination
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    The Halloween thread

    I don’t love All Hallows- but I don’t hate it. I don’t like costumes that aren’t related to ‘death’ or spirituality and turn it into a mere fancy dress though I accept that’s a personal and slightly cultural thing. I like making scary food ( though haven’t for ages) and recognising that...
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    Insert Swearish Rant Here

    Father - “Can I let the boy dog in ?” Me - “no, rescue girl ( in season) is inside “ Father - “well it’s not his fault she is in season , she should be out” He literally just victim blamed a dog . ( of course both dogs are totally innocent- and are taking turns in/ out and crated when both...
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    Sufferer Is anybody alive out there?...

    Welcome - and congratulations on the strength of character to cut ties and move forward.
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    You Know You Have PTSD When...

    It’s quarter past one in the morning. You are pulled from a deep sleep by a repugnant odour. You awake to discover that the miscreant rescue dog has smeared her faeces across the walls and carpet of your upstairs landing. Dopey with sleep you wonder how to start cleaning this, when your...
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    Insert Swearish Rant Here

    There are very few things that make me feel violent. Having my father live with us is one. That I cannot feel kinder I’d another. I often wish he’d hurry up and die :(. It’s a terrible way to feel about a parent . He is the best way to feel intense sorrow for my mother . ( I know I...
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    Worries & Concerns

    I empathise and commiserate about this paralysis.
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    General How long? Is it normal to be in a triggered state for months?

    I think my first two years I was pretty untenable because of how symptomatic I was. I’d have to ask DH - but I know for about two and a half years I only left the house , often only our room, once or twice a week - for therapy or yoga. I don’t know when it ramped down from being constant...
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    I Realize That I

    I realise that I …. Still rely on T more than I realised. She is on compassionate leave and I said I was coping just fine and would do if she needed a staged return to work - I’m pottering on. Not making progress at tremendous speed but not slipping back - and stability is really a huge...
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    Worries & Concerns

    That worked last year - this year they are too wrapped up in their bikes.
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    One Thing That Made You Smile Today?

    A thank you card from a nine year old that is grateful I let her play with my pony. She said my ‘kindness and smile brighten her life’ - so cute ! She helps me so much as I have not the energy right now to do much myself and she and her capable mother are doing it for me - I will try and...
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    Worries & Concerns

    How did I only just find this thread @Friday ? It’s coming up to midnight on a Sunday so I am currently worried about . 1. Having totally failed to prepared to prepared in any way for the week ahead 2. Money, money, money 3. Having to take a tyre in to the shop tomorrow . ( I get...
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    Death Bereavement ... ok, pet bereavement.

    I’ve not looked around lately and just saw this @somerandomguy . I am so very sorry you have lost Ferdinand and so impressed you put his welfare beyond any want to have a little longer with him. As for ‘compare’. Well- that’s pointless, but I lost two grandmothers and a dog in a month and...
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    Thinking of getting a pet bird. If you’ve owned one, how has it affected your PTSD?

    We only have chickens and quail. I will say that the quail- who are in an aviary, make me sad. I love their sounds but I hate that they are ‘caged’ . Similarly I took care of a parrot for someone and it broke my heart . I let her have all the time I was at home and awake out of her cage...
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    What Are You Looking Forward To?

    Tomorrow my ponies’ trainer is taking me out in my first pairs driving lesson with a pair of beautiful horses ( not mine) . I’m both terrified and excited.
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    Recommendations for kids animated films?

    Just want to echo the sentiment of not feeling ‘silly’. There is a lovely meme that talks about children’s books being full of dragons and fairies and lions in the back of wardrobes while adult books are about war, divorce and arguing- so read children’s books ! Why not the same for film ...
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    Poll How do you feel about the way Resilience is thrown around?

    Um- I didn’t answer the OP. I actually believe myself to be resilient. I did not fit a long time , but resilient doesn’t mean totally impervious or indestructible- it just means ‘ resilient’. I am coming around to the idea that given the challenges I faced during childhood ‘only’ having...
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    Poll How do you feel about the way Resilience is thrown around?

    I find more resonance for my situation in the idea that PTSD is an injury - either a really big one, or a repeated grinding away in cPTSD , rather than an ‘illness’ . I also agree that the support thing is relevant - but I don’t think it has to be AFTER the event. I think that it can be...
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