Thank you for all that you wrote I was also wrongly diagnosed for many years and addicted to high doses of prescribed tranquilizers from the age of 12 to 23 when things just changed for me I was diagnosed with various psychiatric illnesses over that nine year period and spent time as an...
Thank you yes I have done a lot of work on myself over a long time just not on the effects of trauma, but I feel my therapy is gradually getting me talking about the stuff that my recovery program could not reach... I’m just thankful to be opening up a little bit at last
I am left with outward signs of trauma like very bad self harm scars and I have suffered with shame over them for the years since I stopped cutting myself but last year, at 63, I fulfilled a promise to myself to have them covered with tattoos - after being shamed by some people on an escalator...
I am new on here just reading the threads and listening to others with similar issues to myself I just wanted to say the support and encouragement I am reading is amazing and although I have only written anything on here twice, this makes me feel safe .. what is on here, feedback, this is so...
Thank you for all I have found on here. After 41 years in recovery from addictions and using 12 step program that could not get to the bottom of what was wrong with me, i started getting panic attacks and different kinds of flashbacks, to traumatic situations, indecided for the first time to try...
Myself I tried to write my story and history on here a while ago but I was never posted and I didn’t understand why so I thought I would write something general under a heading. I suffer with PTSD where can I write my story please ? I found it very confusing where it is supposed to go. I was...
After months of needing to visit my elderly mother to give my brother time off, I am here, feeling very relieved to be with my family after months of isolation and resulting mental health problems
My brother is my mother’s official carer every day, seven days a week for eight hours...