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    Triggers - The Core Root Before Symptoms Are Activated

    Regarding triggers, my therapist asked me today what I thought I would gain from uncovering trauma material. I told her I thought that then I could narrow what I was afraid of. Unfortunately, with such a broad array of triggers, I only can speculate as to what happened, and therefore, what to...
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    What Happens When You're Triggered?

    Dylan, you're right on. It has helped me of late to know there is research showing that neurology explains why we reflexively respond the way we do, primitive though it is. I agree that exercise helps. It takes a lot of exercise for me to reach the end of my anxiety-driven energy. But it's...
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    Pittsfield, MA USA

    Southern Maine, USA Hi Nic. Sorry, I found you on someone else's page but thought I'd give you a shot anyway. I am originally from Mass. Would like to chat.
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    How Am I Supposed To Have Thanksgiving With My Perpetrator?

    SQ, If you do decide to go - and I know it's so hard to decide, please make sure your support continues beyond the day, as in the week that follows. Sometimes we can dissociate enough to get through something, but get slammed with aftershock later. Having a cell phone with you with live people...
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    New Here, Suffering From Hyper Vigilance

    You what? How unfortunate that you hate fat people. Sorry, but that was offensive. No one else using this site is fat? I am and that felt like crapm for me to be right there with you, feeling your pain and have you say something cruel. How about "I am afraid of/hate/despise the idea of being...
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    Hi, I'm Chowda, And I'm A Train Wreck.

    Hi. I am brand new to this site. I have been in therapy since 1989. But I've had PTSD my whole life. It's hard to imagine that, even for myself. But yeah, within my first two years of life I had already been witness to my father's brutality, was taken from caregivers and suffered the death of my...
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    I REALLY Need To Find Someone That Understands... Really

    Dear OFD: I hear your anguish! How hard you're trying to be a "grown up" and deal with adult relationships that you are not ready for. The constancy of my PTSD has kept me stuck in "child" mode, because among other things, I never had the benefit of a safe, protected environment, which is so...
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