christinejarvis30
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My name is Christine and I just turned 30 years old on October 4th. In December of 2020, I was diagnosed with Autism as well as PTSD, Generalized Anxiety, and OCD. My therapist believes that my PTSD came from my childhood from already having issues with anxiety due to my Autism, which then caused it to exacerbate into PTSD after having to deal with two brothers with substance issues and watching one of them becoming extremely volatile with my mom many times throughout the years. Unfortunately, out of the 4 sisters I was the only one to end up with PTSD while my other 3 sisters didn't. Sometimes it feels so hard because I feel like my family tries, but they have no clue what I go through and even though I don't wish it on my worst enemy I wish I had one sister that had to go through the same difficulties as me; so, I wouldn't feel so alone. And I want to get it under control so it doesn't control my life and not be afraid of everything and end up feeling physical pain because I'm so afraid and anxious and start living a semi normal life again and then I can feel like a semi normal person, so yesterday in my counseling session my therapist started me on learning how to do diaphragmatic breathing so that way once my bodies used to it and I get anxious thoughts my brain will know to just automatically breathe. And any tips on how to get my PTSD to go away and for people who have it under control, do you still take medications?
My name is Christine and I just turned 30 years old on October 4th. In December of 2020, I was diagnosed with Autism as well as PTSD, Generalized Anxiety, and OCD. My therapist believes that my PTSD came from my childhood from already having issues with anxiety due to my Autism, which then caused it to exacerbate into PTSD after having to deal with two brothers with substance issues and watching one of them becoming extremely volatile with my mom many times throughout the years. Unfortunately, out of the 4 sisters I was the only one to end up with PTSD while my other 3 sisters didn't. Sometimes it feels so hard because I feel like my family tries, but they have no clue what I go through and even though I don't wish it on my worst enemy I wish I had one sister that had to go through the same difficulties as me; so, I wouldn't feel so alone. And I want to get it under control so it doesn't control my life and not be afraid of everything and end up feeling physical pain because I'm so afraid and anxious and start living a semi normal life again and then I can feel like a semi normal person, so yesterday in my counseling session my therapist started me on learning how to do diaphragmatic breathing so that way once my bodies used to it and I get anxious thoughts my brain will know to just automatically breathe. And any tips on how to get my PTSD to go away and for people who have it under control, do you still take medications?