Wow. Just. Wow.
I'm always leery of people who present their "opinions" as facts, which your post above is rife with.
I too would like to know what your credentials are. Are you a doctor? Mental health-care provider? PTSD sufferer? Have you studied the subect at Harvard? Been a care-giver...
Sometimes my two dogs are the only reason for getting out of bed in the morning.
Unconditional love... tons of patience... non-judgement.... loyalty.
Can't find that combination in people very often.
m1
Wowee this is VERY brave of you!!! I applaud you and hope to someday soon be able to kick it myself! You go girl!
OMG I'm cracking up here!!!! I think that way too sometimes, and I'm not even quitting smoking! :rofl:
Good luck!!!
m1
Thank you ALL so much.
It's been ok.
I didn't do anything stupid like get hammered last night or cry or anything. lol
I woke up this morning and all my parts are working normal-like and my face didn't crack and slide off in the night.
I went to the store today and no small children were...
Q1. What colour is the road?
-Mottled grey
Q2. What texture is the road?
-gravel... like pea gravel
Q3. How solid is the road?
-solid foundation, but slippery/slidey from the gravel
Kind of ambiguos .... road is not white or black... not smooth but not exceptionally bumpy, not set up for...
I turn 40 tomorrow.
Not sure why I am sharing that here.. y'all don't really know me yet because I am so new here.
But it's significant. And I need to share it somewhere. With someone.
Part of me wants to throw a pity party about it.
40!
Good lord the "best years" are over and I am...
This is an imaginery journey down a road. Take in the sights, sounds and colours, just like a video camera recording all that lies surrounding you. Survey the scene, noticing whatis far off in the distance, the background surrounds, the weather, the season and a total image of what you view...
I have started logging mine... particularly the really bizarre and violent ones. If I can't sort them out I discuss them with my therapist and she usually has excellent insight in "interpreting" them when I can't.
m1
Wow.
I just got back from my therapist this morning and she wants to start EMDR next week.... I wasn't familiar with it.... she explained it to me pretty much, but of course I ran home to look it up here.
Not sure how to feel about it at this point now.
If anyone else has any...
There are others here whom will be a lot of help to you, but I am not in that category.
What I can say is "Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your service."
m1
Wow.... nor and Awakening thank you for the explanations. Band of Brothers here... errr. . . Sisters as it were.
Just to clarify as I don't want to mislead, I *can* cry for others. I cried terribly on 9/11 and again in 2005 when my dog/ K-9 /companion and best friend of 14 years died...
It would sound crazy if I posted this anywhere else but here... actually it still sounds crazy.
I left the house today for the first time in over 5 days.
The dog had run out of dog food. There was naught getting around it.
Honestly, for a crazy moment, I actually was looking in the...
nor, do you know why you can't cry?
I hope you don't mind me asking. I am the same way, but I know why I can't/don't cry.... it started out as a very deliberate thing on my part that now I cant seem to "deprogram". Do you know why you dont cry?
m1
I've been pondering all day what to post as an intro... don't want to discourage anyone so I have to word this properly.
My name is m1. I was diagnosed with PTSD when I was 14. My father immediately made me discontinue seeing the psychiatrist at that point... cause... you know... Dad didn't...