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General Anxiety Disorder, Ptsd, And Depression

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LostOne1985

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Hello Everyone,

Thank you for viewing my post and the support you will be able to give me. I am venting here and expressing some of my horrific experiences in the past. This is what will lead up to my PTSD, depression, and anxiety. Well it all started with my childhood. My mother was a drug abused woman that i love no matter what because she gave me life but, she use to sell herself to abuse drugs. My father was absent for some reason to me, resulting having to be a man at an early age. Well i constantly had to deal with my moms drug life, the johns that use to drop her off, the people she would try and burn for money, the boyfriends that would try and hit her. She gave me and my sister up pretty much as babies to her parents which tried their hardest to raise two messed up kids that no one cared about. Well my mother died in 2000 of a drug overdose at the an early at of 30+ don't remember how old she was and i don't want to do the math.

When she died it was like relief but a void in my life, i did not have to worry any longer which affected my sleep big time of when we got the call she was dead. She was found on the side of the highway with maggots eating away at her. The void left me with a big gaping hole in my life, my whole life i was never someones baby and now for sure there was no one to say i love you, i care about you, how are you doing? My father i had a brief relationship with, we started to have a connection till my mother ruined it for me as my parents never really cared about each other before, but once i wanted something with my biological father, my mother comes in and ruins it for me. Any how, she told me one day that her and my father were drinking and he hit her so my natural reaction as her son was to defend her. So i called him up one day and i told him if he ever did anything to her i would effing kill him. Of course, this was prior to my moms passing. The thing that upsets me the most out of both my father and my mother is that my last name was something previous and they had plenty of time to tell me before both their passings.

So my mom dies in march of 2000, her father the only man that took me in, died the same year of june of 2000. So once my grandfather died i lost all stability that i once had, a home, financial support, mentoring, etc. My grandmother use to let my moms brother abuse us physically because of the frustration she had for her daughter for dropping us off with her to raise us. He would beat us all the time till one day i stood up to my uncle, i can recall i was like 10 and i told him that i would turn him into CPS if he kept hitting us and he stopped that day.

My past experiences have also affected me being molested my cousin(which was a older girl), my uncle that was a priest, and unfortunately my sister. This was all that happen before my mothers passing. I just felt that the persons i should rely on violated my trust, everything that stands for loyalty was violated and no one fessed up to saying sorry for the pain that they caused. I do give the two girls that molested me a little slack as they were molested by others. My grandparents knew about this but never called authorities about the incidents.

Long before my mothers passing her husband before she was into heavy drugs use to abuse my sister sexually and so they could get high would lock us into a closet for us to cry ourselves asleep. This is possibly why we were sent to live with our grandparents because the lack of parenting from my mother.

So in 2013 i found out my father died from a heart attack all by himself to pretty much rot till someone smelt him and report that smell which lead to the police finding him. After finding out how he died and what he died from gave me anxiety that one day that could possibly happen to me. I was obsessing about his estate losing sleep about him and found out so much information about him as a person that he neglected to tell me. Such as my last name was once the same as his but changed for some apparent reason. He nor my mom told me why when they have every opportunity to do so. The last time i spoke to him was when i was 21 and my hatred grew for him pretty deep as i had to learn how to be a man all on my own. This really messes with you as being a boy to a man, it test your manhood. Its like no one is there to teach you these manly values so i turned to the streets to teach me these things. It was a negative learning pattern, as i was selling drugs, stealing, messing over society as i felt it was done to me.

So in 2011 i had my first biological son, which is my second since i consider my wifes first child as my own because his dad was an absent father as well creating a big hole for him as well. So when i had my first son i thought i would reach out to my father before i knew of his passing. After learning of his passing is when my depression spiked for me and anxiety because as i mentioned previous how he died, and what he died from. My depression spiked because i wanted my father to meet his grandchild setting aside everything in the past. Unfortunately, he passed and left another void in my life as my mom is dead, my father is dead and at this point i have separated myself from my family as me and my sister are the so called failures and see us as the black sheep of the family that were not supposed to amount to anything because of my mothers habits prior to her passing.

Now to the present, my wife mentally abuses me due to my prior infidelities to before we got married. I came clean about all the women i slept with, the abuse of alcohol, the partying, and decided to get married. We had our first/second son in 2011 and everything really spiked from here. I felt after getting clean from alcohol that people i burned bridges with in the past i would run into and still deal with this. I feel when i run into them there is going to be some type of physical confrontation and girls that would be pissed of how i messed them over in the past.

My wife not has be cage up like an animal i cannot break free, my son is autistic and i watch him around the clock, we just had our third/second son. My life is in the dumps i feel, my wife tries to control me, tell me to get out if i only love her for the kids, if i want other women still (which i do not), she has made me solely depend on her for everything as i threw away relationships for her and the sake of our family. I feel stuck like i have received my GED, my associates degree, and now i will be getting my bachelors degree. For some reason it is not good enough for her. Now sometimes i just feel like the only thing that can give me peace is death.

I love life, i love living, i love watching my kids grow and that is what stops those negative thoughts. Sorry this is just venting for me and seeking how i can just maintain a positive life. I have been on all kinds of prescription drugs that have made me all zombied out and that is not enjoying life so i am currently smoking cannabis occasionally for my depression, ptsd, and general anxiety disorder.

So i have be molested, been beaten, been abused on every level, both my parents are dead, i feel all alone, I feel like i have no support and the only thing that makes me want to be a better person and a better man that all the men i have encountered with is my sons. Sorry about all the typos i just really wanted to get this off my chest as i feel like i am going to blow up.
 
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You are brave, that is clear in your story. And determination. I'm so sorry that you've lost so much and were betrayed by other adults. You can find role models now. As for your alcohol, AA is a fantastic phenomenon and you will find many mentors there. You can find meetings online in your area. Congrats on your Associates degree and keep going it will open opportunities you wouldn't have if all you had was your GED. Welcome and I wish peace for your soul
 
Welcome to the forum, @LostOne1985. I'm sorry to hear of your struggles, and hope you find our community a helpful place for you to be. I removed your warning about your post being graphic because we don't use any kind of trigger warnings here, it's too challenging to know what may or may not be triggering to someone. MyPTSD is a big place - you're not alone.
 
@LostOne1985 Welcome to the forum!

When I read your introduction, what struck me was your strength. I hope that you can use that to find a way to heal from the things that are robbing you of living your life to the fullest. This forum has a lot of information and is an excellent resource.
 
Thank you all for you kind words, I am glad to be on this site to help me cope with what i have been dealing with over the years. It is just tough because i feel i am never heard. I always feel like my feelings and me being who i am are swept under the rug. That is the frustrating part for me.

There was some stuff i had left out on my post. My PTSD has came from the physical abuse i seen first hand with my sister and my mother. My sister was in a violent relationship which now she is a violent person from the relationships with men that were abusive to her. My mom the same thing she was physically abused and seen everything so i feel like i am always in harms way. Also, a lot of it comes from my own paranoia, I always think that i am going to run into people from the past and certain grudges that were in the past are still there. Then when i see these individuals i do not know what will happen but i always thing the worse. I always think i am in harms way and now that I have a family they could be too.

My anxiety i think is from heredity and my depression is from the lack of support i never got from individuals that should care the most. I have now distanced myself from my in laws because of certain ways i feel about them. I am really big on loyalty and respect. I have a certain zone of comfort and i feel that is always crossed when i am around these individuals. My wife does not see eye to eye as i do on the way life is. She grew up with both parents under a stable household, pretty much a normal life. I have distanced myself from my family because the lack of loyalty they have displayed to me.

As far as my wifes family, i just feel certain things need to be addressed but i do not say anything because i feel it is my wifes duty to do so. It is her family and she should stick her neck out for our immediate family. My wifes family has rubbed me the worng way and ill express how. Prior to getting married my wifes aunt, not even knowing me addressed by tattoos not even sitting down to see the individual i actually am. With my wifes mom, there wasy a situation where i was talking about a prior DV i got with my sister arguing over something petty but i expessed that i have never hit a girl and never will just because of the abuse i seen from men with my sister and mother. My mother in law said well as far as well know you never hit no one, like she could never take my word for it.

Then the fact i am big on equality as well, it just makes the world a betrer place. Well my wifes mom and dad have a total of 5 grandchildren. All my three boys from my wife and her sister has 2 children of her own but they live with the parents along with her, i mean the sister. Well when my first biological son was born he was getting attention till my wife's sister had a baby which i felt was out of spite because we had a family and did not want to take away from her first child. Any how, so my son was getting the attention and when her new baby came it was like they forgot all about my son. There full was on the attention of the only girl in the family.

So i told my wife because my wifes sisters kids are always around their grandma and grandpa 24/7 that her parents can come to our house and have only time with our kids, i just think that it is right. That even though her sisters kids get to see their grandma and grandpa around the clock my kids would only get a fraction of what they got but i was willing to accept that but they never did in all of 2014 but one time. I know i have made it somewhat uncomfortable for them to come around because they can sense the way i feel about them but they should not take it out on my children because they do not like me. So, this is what i am always battling with my wife about because she sees nothing wrong with that and does not ever want to bring up the things i feel that need to be address so she sweeps my feeling under the rug.
 
I can feel the resentments in your post. These will eat you alive if you let them. No one gets to choose their in laws, which sucks my mother in law was evil personified and she had everything to do about my ex and I divorcing. He never stood up for me and our children. I forbade her to even speak to them and I had to put locks on their doors because shed snoop when she thought we were all out. I caught her red handed several times.

If you want your marriage to survive you'll have to accept them. That doesn't mean you have to be buddies but it's not your wife's fault that they are like the way they are. My daughter is my mothers favorite grandchild. She has seven male grandkids. This is a huge conflict for me because my mother enabled my abuser as well as allowing the family to bully me constantly. She actually bribed my daughter to go live with her and my father by telling her they'd send her to a private school and pay for her college, thus throwing me and my son under the bus.
Since I was 17 I've kept my family of origin far far away. It sucks not coming from a loving home and it never gets better. What helped me with the resentments I had toward my mother in law was to move away. There was no way on Earth she was going to change and jeez my children only get one childhood. I wanted to protect them and I put undue blame on my ex. It was a no win situation and ultimately I divorced his family. And I am not kidding, I tried to have adult conversations with her about her abuse then she'd turn into Satan and bombard me with insults to my character, my mothering, just everything. If I had a do over I'd have kicked her out and stayed with my ex
 
@KwanYingirl well my in laws are not that bad, i just feel that it is my wifes duty, her loyalty to your family to stick up for us when there is no equality. I just think that if you treat a child one way, all should be treated the same. Its like when you go to the store you do not buy just for one child you buy for both or all. I am sorry for your situation, i am probably going to be going down that road. We have already discussed it and feel for both of us we are just together for the children. We love each other as humans but we are day and night. I want it to work but it just seems like our personalities clash too much. I want what i want and so does she. I do not ask for much from her but just to stick her neck out for our family and that we come first. The same way i did with my family for her. I think it is mutual respect and she does not respect me like that. I just expected her when the situations did happen that she say something, obviously now it would not make sense but i do not think she is loyal the way i am, atleast to our marriage. I feel for your situation and certainly do not want to be divorce. Some one has to be submissive in the situation and i am hard headed so i think that is where it leaves us broken.
 
@LostOne1985 im sorry to hear your marriage is tenuous. I agree about loyalty. My ex never stood up for us and turned a deaf ear to the nasty things she said to me and the children. The fault lies with her parents as they must be holding her hostage. My children have made all their own decisions starting with their choice of college. I taught them to think, to research, and whatever they chose, I would support them. They feel so safe with me that they tell me everything they did as teenagers!!! No surprise there. I don't interfere with their relationships but lend an ear when asked. You may want what you want and that's that, but for the sake of raising stable and brave children, they need to learn to make decisions about their own life. Life is a great teacher.
 
Just one more suggestion. Fair isn't giving both kids the same thing, fair is giving each child what they need. One may need extra help learning to read, one may be a gifted athlete. You'll have to find adventures for them that speak to their soul.
 
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