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    Childhood PTSD or Trauma Effects - Growing Up

    My sister was, and is, the scrapper of the family (IMHO). I remember hearing once about how she was at band practice (she was on the rifle squad), and a girl made some comment about her being black. My sister clocked her in the jaw with the butt end of the rifle. When someone attempted to...
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    Reactions of Others to your PTSD

    Just an update I'm still doing really well, emotionally. Two days ago I felt like something was wrong, though. My mood changed a little.. the initial 'high' I had was dimming, and I felt sleepy and tired all the time. A trip to the emergency room revealed that I have a sinus infection, and a...
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    Reactions of Others to your PTSD

    lizagurl: Thank you! *raises hands triumphantly in the air and does a mini-cheer* Today, and yesterday, are the first two days I've had where I honestly haven't thought about the childhood traumas and wanted to cry. The thing that worries me now (and probably rightly so) is that this could...
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    Reactions of Others to your PTSD

    Ooh Anthony! More to ponder, indeed! Especially since today when I met with the psychiatrist, she asked me flat out why I was so upset after my father died when he was abusive to me, and I told her that it was the first death in our immediate family, and that it hit too close to home, made me...
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    Reactions of Others to your PTSD

    Thank you piglet, and good luck with your meeting! :) I had the strangest dream this morning, and I can't help but think it was my subconscious trying to work things out. It's fragmented, but from the pieces I remember, there were two men in my home (or whatever house I was in), and they were...
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    Reactions of Others to your PTSD

    hi Anthony and thank you for the welcome :) When I was first diagnosed with depression, I was put on imipramine. 6 months and 20+ pounds later, I saw the prescribing doctor again, and told him of my weight gain. He told me basically to try and recognize real hunger from head hunger (good...
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    Finally Crossed the Gap and Got a New Girlfriend

    Congrats Ben! ...heck, what more can I say? :)
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    Reactions of Others to your PTSD

    lizagirl, thank you SO much. Already I feel understood just reading your words because they resonate with me. My brother and I have a very strained relationship because, way before I knew I needed treatment, he had a "discussion" with me about my life - days after my father died, days after I...
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    Reactions of Others to your PTSD

    I sought out treatment in 1995, and was diagnosed with clinical depression. I was put on antidepressants, but they seemed, to me, not to work. I still felt the way I always have. Recently I mentioned to my counselor that I thought I might have depersonalization disorder and asked to be...
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