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    Still Can't Shake It

    Really? That is so interesting So...my frustration with myself for NOT being better and wishing I could have a "normal" life...that's a symptom too?
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    The Ptsd Cup Explanation

    Yes, this is excellent. It validates what I always sensed in myself. But I always wondered: Why can't I handle stress?
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    I Can't Keep Burying It

    Once again, I can relate. Although for me, it doesn't feel like I'm burying my past. It was so automatic. Everything just got buried somehow. I was so intent on becoming popular at school, then going on to become a lawyer or a film maker. I am nothing, professionally. At 46 I am very angry...
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    Someday Is Now

    Thank you for the words "someday is now." That is my motto. I will strive to remember it on those days when my brain tells me: "What are you doing? You are FINE. You don't need to withdraw from a busy, outward oriented life in order to heal. Just be good and do what you're supposed to do...
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    My Introduction

    What Next? OK, I've introduced myself, looked around... I need to "establish" myself, but I don't seem to be able to start new topics. I am a new member that wants to talk about Complex PTSD...any takers? :crazy: For instance, how does one begin to change? How does one get past the...
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    Complex Trauma (from Childhood Abuse)

    I belong here This is the first time I have been in a community where others understand the nightmaresl I went through as a child. I'm so sorry we all have this fallout in our lives. I'm glad I'm not alone, but I am sad that so many can relate. :think:
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    Complex Trauma (from Childhood Abuse)

    This is almost my story with my mother verbatim, but unlike you, Gma, Herc, my mother is in denial and still very sick. She would get furious with me when I would pull away. Neither of us understood it, but I suspected its because I cannot trust her. Her own wounded-ness is so deep and she...
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    My Introduction

    No, its my psychic pain that seems to intensify in winter. Perhaps its a trigger of some sort. Having talked to the folks at the treatment facility a bit today, I'm leaning toward going. Money is an issue, of course. Praying praying praying that our insurance company "approves" and chips...
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    My Introduction

    Hi everyone, I'm not sure I will stay on this forum, but I had to sign up to look around so here I am. I began having symptoms of...something...when I was 18. Back then, it looked like OCD, then depression. I have had many episodes of depression throughout my life. Have been in counseling...
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