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AnD,
Thank you for that reference. I haven't posted here in a long time and I decided to come back and talk some more. I had gone to the VA as I stated and after a few different appointments with my therapist and he diagnosed me with generalized anxiety disorder. I expressed what I had mentioned above finally, this was pretty hard to do and hard to portray how I felt. I still feel like I have PTSD of some sort but he stated that it couldn't be so because I haven't experienced a traumatic event. He just brushed off everything that I told him about how I was feeling. He just wanted me to go through his curriculum. After a few more appointments and filling out the worksheets he gave me, I felt that the meetings with him weren't helping at all. I missed one appointment and he quite literally got angry with me about missing it. Since then I have decided to not go back.
I tend to be quite forgetful now and I'm not really sure why. I still have these outbursts and they happen randomly. I tend to sit in the shower longer than I should in the morning replaying some of my memories and then I realize that I am standing in the shower and need to continue getting ready for work. I never really noticed that until recently. I still prefer not to go out in public and go places, I will if I have to, but don't enjoy to do so. This includes even family events, I feel like I want to go hang out with my family with my kids but then I don't and get anxious even to do that. I recently got medication, like three months ago, to start working through this stuff but I still feel like I am hyper vigilant, jumpy, irritable, detached, and overwhelmed quite often.
Thank you for that reference. I haven't posted here in a long time and I decided to come back and talk some more. I had gone to the VA as I stated and after a few different appointments with my therapist and he diagnosed me with generalized anxiety disorder. I expressed what I had mentioned above finally, this was pretty hard to do and hard to portray how I felt. I still feel like I have PTSD of some sort but he stated that it couldn't be so because I haven't experienced a traumatic event. He just brushed off everything that I told him about how I was feeling. He just wanted me to go through his curriculum. After a few more appointments and filling out the worksheets he gave me, I felt that the meetings with him weren't helping at all. I missed one appointment and he quite literally got angry with me about missing it. Since then I have decided to not go back.
I tend to be quite forgetful now and I'm not really sure why. I still have these outbursts and they happen randomly. I tend to sit in the shower longer than I should in the morning replaying some of my memories and then I realize that I am standing in the shower and need to continue getting ready for work. I never really noticed that until recently. I still prefer not to go out in public and go places, I will if I have to, but don't enjoy to do so. This includes even family events, I feel like I want to go hang out with my family with my kids but then I don't and get anxious even to do that. I recently got medication, like three months ago, to start working through this stuff but I still feel like I am hyper vigilant, jumpy, irritable, detached, and overwhelmed quite often.
