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I know my triggers and most of them relate well with autistic traits. I've been trying for years to overcome this and I'm exhausted as I push myself constantly to interact with people and it's horrible. A positive diagnosis would make me more accepting of my social failures and allow me to...

I've had EMDR privately before. We identified the trauma events and spent some time on rethinking it. tbh, I never really thought that my trauma was traumatic enough to have such a profound effect on me. I didn't go any further. Back for another try 8 years later. Its hard to describe but...

I've had people poking around in my head for decades and until very recently the consensus was that I have CPTSD. I have a friend who has ADHD so I did a bit of research and saw a Youtube about autism in adults and had a huge omg moment. Loads more research and lots of boxes ticked. I'd like...

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I'm searching for ideas. Like could I have been superconditioned to not get angry. Did someone tell me that being angry isn't nice and I took the concept to far? Is it even possible not to feel anger?

I have an anger problem. I don't get angry. Never have done. It would be easy to say that not getting angry could be an avoidance, but I was a non angry child well before the event. I've had plenty of therapy over the years, but we always hit a block. Something so distressing that my Ts were...

If someone would be kind enough to lend me their Netflix login just to binge watch it, I would be better equipped to comment ;)

I'm on a similar journey (yes shoot me, I said that :)

This could be moany and not too PTSDy but it's really knocked me for six :( I have a friend that I've been helping with his alcohol problems (I know a fair bit about it from personal experience, I'm over 2 years sober :) So my friend is doing well. He's a month in and the change in him is...

I've made an appointment with MIND. Apparently I need to focus on me at my very worst which goes totally against my way of thinking and seems a little dishonest.

I'm currently off sick and Universal Credit want me to complete a UC50 form. I have no idea what to say. I just look at the form and my mind goes blank. I guess it's an avoidance thing. I really don't like thinking too deeply about how my mental health effects me as I find it extremely...

After years of self medicating with alcohol, my liver is in really bad shape. I'm two years sober and ready to sort out my cPTSD, but my GP is very weary of what to prescribe. I tried sertraline (did nothing), fluoxetine (made me feel really nauseous) and mirtazapine sent me bonkers. Every...

.. and I've never felt so crap :( It's not a booze thing. I kicked that into touch with remarkable ease after a decompensated liver diag. I thought I'd be better able to sort the issues that led me to self-medicate as a sober person, but no :( I'm remembering so many forgotten things and...

I'm on the IAPS list and I've filled in the AnxietyUk referral but they don't have many EMDR people on the books :( I've even considered go fund me, maybe with a direct appeal to those responsible ? Donate a $ and get a sad selfie of me hiding in a corner lol (notlol)

I Fawn big time. Like a The Dark Lord meets Julian Clary style ;)

I'm desperate to go back to see my EMRD lady. I did quiet a few sessions, that were basically me making light of everything with nothing significant to report. I did a session later than usual one day, got into my car and caught a glimpse of the time and then it hit me. So now I know what I'm...

Until today I only knew about fight and flight. I am a total Fawner ! Now I'm struggling with the diagnosis. I'm two years sober after decades of self-medicating. Not boozing was the easy bit. Sifting through the wreckage, trying to find answers and move on is tough when the reason you...

My GP has me back on Mirtazapine again. They really arn't doing anything apart from scaring the crap out of me two or three times a night. I wake up and it feels like my heart has stopped and I'm not breathing. The time distortion is a bit odd but it seems like an age passes before i can...

I love sour candies.. and now you've legitimised their use as medication. Excellent :)

Sorry to say, I hear alarm bells. I was routinely groped by my best friends mother at 14. An upstanding member of the community, but too much booze and she became a shameless sex pest, like she actually believed that she was the same age as us kids. She had her own abuse story, but her...

I get what you mean. I work a bar as therapy and its bloody tough. The other day we had a group of drunk lads in and one of them totally freaked me out. I handed him his drink and he made a comment about my rather extreme shaking. I wanted to say something like 'it's not you, it's my PTSD'...

Dark Triad sounds very much like my x husband. IDK what his fave superhero was but I definitely think that his early days growing up as a gay kid were key to him developing his inner horridness !

Hello everyone. Hmm where to start ? Damn my overthinking.. cause and effect ? bulleted trauma list ? timeline of misery ? I think I might give the diary thing a go and start with now, occasionally dropping in the odd mindf*ck along the way :) Highlights may include drugs, sex and Abba. Ghosts...

Hi Chaim. I'm new here and queer :) I hope you find some good advice. Mine is generally a bit leftfield, but your not alone :)

Hi fyn. I'm new here. I got to this post by searching for Gay and I was going to say that we probably share some issues and triggers. But then I thought, wait.. maybe your gay reference wasn't the big issue to your PTSD and I was just assuming through my own experiences that it was. I need a...