Welcome. This forum can be a great resource for healthy distraction and peer support until your professional help gets lined up. The social threads are especially helpful when your symptoms are spiking.
No words of wisdom here. But a raise of the glass as well. You've carried a lot, lady. A calloused heart should not be one of them. I'd say count your blessings, but what kind of BS that would be when all you are really trying to say is "I'm grieving loss, and it hurts beyond words". And, you...
What I wonder is, what were you hoping to get from the other neighbors that you didn't get from the old fart who triggered you?
From the outside looking in and having only a sliver of detail, it looks to me you were looking for two things; 1). Any proof (by an exact incident) from any other...
@SunnyWeather, no matter what label it is given, if it feels "unreal" or "sureal", but undeniable, "something" is going on, and therefore worth getting professional help to be properly diagnosed.
My memory was "failing" more and more in the beginning, things you mention def describe the hard...
Those I experience are like your second, happen every day, in the morning and last through the day. Then by early afternoon, I restabilize and my head 'clears up'. So, what I do to come back from the abyss every 3 seconds to 5 minutes throughout that time that allows me to actually get any work...
I am so in awe of the amazing self-care, acknowledging where you are, what happened and coping...coping! A set back, not the end...just amazing! Hope everything settles soon...
Not much advice, as I turn my anger inward 99% of the time, but I do read about explosive anger being a classic symptom of PTSD here on the forum. So, know you are not alone. I wish you luck in finding positive coping skills to help you manage it.
With tou @SeekingAfrica. Pajamas and junk food are just fine...you're eating and have clothes on...two good things. Hopefully you are sleeping well. I'm sorry this was a bad one.
Having been in a psych ward, and having to help put a loved one in a psych ward, yep, I get it...100% agree. I had to conciously cross the line into 'this will now be on my record' and do it anyway, knowing it could be used against me down the road, but also knowing in that moment, I was a...
Welcome! I have found so much support, caring and love here. I hope you find the same. I posted accross several threads for a bit, then I started a members diary to start proceeding my traumas, which serves for me as exposure therapy. I keep up with and post in several other's diaries as well...
Your keys are on the hook next to the door and your milk is in the fridge, not the other way around.
All your groceries made it into the house and put away, and your car door is actually shut.
You did rinse the conditioner out of your hair...and kind of remember doing it... Deodorant made it...
I use rocks, much the same as Arfie. All different textures. They are all over my house. Good luck in finding a suitable replacement. I know your heart must hurt being that it was a special gift.
Yup, she is very unhealthy be it PTSD or not....calling you when she is up for it and tossing you to the curb when she's run out of the emotional steem necessary to handle a two-way relationship. She maybe be a lovely person but needs lots and lots of help, from a professional...not you. Don't...
Definitely no criticism here, you know yourself best and if I had someone reminding me of my abuser, that would not be exposure therapy I could tolerate, it would be re-traumatizing...so weigh the Pros and Cons with that in mind.
For me, routine is key as well. Same shift may work. Maybe...