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i haven't been able to work since my c-ptsd started and i've been on full disability ever since...i hope that someday i'll be able to work again but i can't concentrate, i can't remember things i was told 5 mins ago, i have an extremely hard time dealing with people almost constant anxiety...

i think it took a lot of time and therapy, a lot of therapy! and slowly, very slowly i just started feeling better, the nightmares stopped and gradually i started feeling a little better but i can't say what it was exactly that turned me around, i was a horrible mess for at least 7-8 years, in...

when my c-ptsd was at it's worst (which lasted years) i wanted to die 24/7 and now that it's eased up i can honestly say i am grateful that suicide wasn't an option for me...it is incredibly hard to get through those long days and even longer nights, but please do whatever it takes to get...

hallucinations I started having flashbacks that made no sense to me but after alittle while in councelling I realized that they were not unreal, I had just forgotten being gang raped...it was more like I was watching it happen to someone else. Through therapy I have dealt with it and at least...

thank you She Cat, I am doing alittle better right now, but I feel like a ticking time bomb waiting to go off. And I thought I was doing so much better, I feel like I am in the middle of a life game of shoots and ladders. I start climbing up the hill but damn if those slides don,t keep...

My husband did the same thing to me today It is so funny to read this today because not a half hour ago I was out of control and crying to my husband on the phone and right after i said i was out of my meds, he says "there really isn't any reason to be upset" I swear, if I could have I would...

This is one of the worst days I have had in a long time. I went completely crazy an hour or so ago, and i thought my head was going to explode from anger. because of my addictions I can't take any drugs that really help so I smoke pot, but today for the first time in forever I am out of that...

Thank you I found the Threads on the site right after I wrote that, I've also been extremely hooked (daily for years) on narcos and benzo's. It is A daily battle for sure. Chrissy

sorry, I misunderstood you To me this drug addiction is one of the worse things I've ever done to myself and I hate to see others suffering

Benzo's and narcotics for someone with an addiction ? I went from benzo's to narcotics. One was just as bad as the other. I have been off both for almost three years now and believe me it has been the hardest thing to overcome. Don't make it worse by mixing or starting something new when you...

Withdrawls I have gone through severe vicodin withdrawls and the physical symptoms last for about a week. Thats the easy part if you are addicted because next comes the emotional withdrawls...much much worse for me. Good luck to you. Chrissy

Pot is the only way I can get through each day, I had been severely hooked on benzo's and narcotics after the PTSD started, I just couldn't handle it but I have been "clean" (I don't consider pot a drug because for me it is more medication if you know what i mean)for almost three years now...

I haven't seen many threads yet on substance abuse and I can't be the only one or am I ? When my anger, depression, flashbacks and all of the other symptoms I was having started, the doctor told me I was having post partum depression and clinical depression. He prescribed xanax and lots of it...

I will be praying for you I will pray for you and your family, I hope everything turns out well for you. God bless you,Chrissy

This site is great I have been stuck to my computer for the past couple of days, reading other peoples stories and feeling less alone with every one I read. Thanks for being here. Chrissy

Scatter brained It sounds funny but I know exsactly what you're talking about. I forget what I am looking for before I even get up to look for it. My daughter is great help to me, on the way to the kitchen to get her a drink I'll forget what I was doing and now I just say "Jess, what I am I...

Today is much better than yesterday Hopefully tomorrow will be better than today. Gotta hope right ? I ran out of zoloft a couple of weeks ago and have to see the doctor this week, but in the meantime my anger has become almost unbearable. I start thinking I'm getting much better and maybe the...

i am having trouble figuring out where to start but i guess i'll start at the beginning where it all began. my daddy left us when i was 2, he would say he was coming to pick me up and i would pack my little suitcase and sit for hours on the steps waiting for my everything to come...he didn't...

drawn to disaster/fantasy movies personally, i can't watch anything sad or depressing. i pretty much only watch cop/action movies...i think for me i need movies/shows that go go go. if i have to think, well thats not usually a good thing for me./chrissy

how do people respond to your trauma/post trauma? i have found that the best place to talk and be understood was when i started going to ptsd groups. i don't think that anyone except others like us can truly understand what we go through.

denied disability again and again i know how you feel in regards to social security, i was turned down 2 times, the 3rd time i got a lawyer. she got it for me easily. how could they expect me with all of my new mental problems to fill out all of those papers correctly. i had to give the...

i started smoking at 16 i'm 41 now....i guess its time to quit...

personal hygiene i've always showered at least once a day until the ptsd struck, now i couldn't care less and i shower when i can't stand myself anymore...is this just me or have others had this problem due to the ptsd ?