Sufferer Hi From Dendrite

[Dendrite]

Hi all,

I am a forty eight year old male that is very happily married that just wanted to say hello and introduce myself.

My brother (deceased) and I had a very tough childhood involving all of the most terrible types of abuse and I guess I don't need to repeat all of that here. Suffice to say, it was extreme and prolonged. Haven't been in touch with my family for many years and both of my parents are deceased. I have PTSD with anxiety and panic attack issues and sleep problems. Have worked really hard over the last fifteen years or more to get my life into a healthy place although it sure takes work and real effort each day to maintain that level of good health.

Some of my interests are; exercise (walking/tennis/jogging on the spot at home whilst watching YouTube etc), meditation (Tonglen/Phowa), poetry, meteorology (storm and snow forecasting), laughing, friendship and kindness, the type of kindness the Dalia Lama talks about, not wishy washy niceness. I'm also interested in language and how we word our dialogues and discourses with each other, so as to build each other up and not the opposite. Conversations (online or otherwise) are very powerful and have a great capacity to really heal and help.

Anyway, say hello if you feel like it. Its always nice to hear from others on this road. I hope all who read this are doing well and if not, feel free to say hello and perhaps we can lighten your load a bit.

Take care all,

Dendrite

 

[SeanCharles]

Welcome! I am in an interesting place tonight given a major connection I have made within the last 48 hours or so. by major connection I mean finding answers I am searching for given that I feel dissatisfied with the medical misdiagnosis and mistreatment not of my PTSD but something that I feel is connected to the ptsd and is being diagnosed and treated as something different.

 

[Dendrite]

Thanks for your reply Geordie. Nice to hear from you. :) I hope that major connection you have made brings you some answers and understanding and that it brings good things to you.

Kindness to you.

Dendrite

 

[SeanCharles]

Thank you. I found this forum doing a web search in search of connecting dots. In many ways I have begun connecting more dots than I had when I first found this forum. In December of 2013 I had a seizure at work. Upon doing a bit of searching realizing that I had PTSD I Googled PTSD and seizures and found a post on this forum. Reading that post and the detail the author gave was really familiar. Over the last couple of days I think I have found what my be the catalyst or rather the correlation between my seizures, my PTSD and my work situation (which changed). With this new information I feel I have some trauma work to do. Now I am tasked with restarting therapy which I suspect is what I need, not anti-convulsant medications. If my hypothesis is correct my PTSD may be connected to a past trauma (which I need to process) which occurred in a similar work situation which was what I was doing for the last five years before moving to a new department. I feel that I am misdiagnosed and thus being mistreated with epilepsy. PTSD might not have been disclosed upon my history when I began seeing the neurologist.

 

[Lionheart]

Hello Dendrite,

Welcome to the forum. I am a 52-yr-old male survivor of severe, prolonged child abuse. I also have PTSD, panic attacks, and sleep problems, but I have been on my healing path for a long time and am doing much better than I was. *(I am due to see the doctor about my sleep problems next week and look forward to getting some quality sleep)....anyways,...

...I too enjoy meditation, and am currently working through D.B.T. (dialectical behavior therapy) which encourages meditation practices and it has been helpful for PTSD.

There is a lot of good information about PTSD to be found here and there are many knowledgeable, supportive people. I hope you will find, like I have, that this is a place of understanding, compassion, and healing.

Best wishes,
Lionheart777

 

[Dendrite]

What a lovely welcome. That blessed me.

I will return again tomorrow as I have a jogging on the spot quota to fulfill just now (one of my sleep remedies) and then tomato and cheese sandwiches for dinner.

take care now,

Dendrite.

 

[SeanCharles]

It's time for me to get some sleep. I have to report to work tomorrow (Thankfully not as early as I would normally on the weekdays) since I hopefully have a medical test which has me anxious and curious since I seem to be outside of 'textbook' medicine...

 

[franciemarnie]

Welcome!!

 

[macca]

Hi Dendrite, Welcome to the Forum! I hope you find it helpful. :)

 

[intothelight]

Hi Dendrite,

Welcome to MyPTSD forum!

I hope you find the information and support here beneficial to your healing.

Take care.

Debbie

 

[Marf]

Welcome to the forum!

 

[Dendrite]

Thank you Geordie, Lionheart777, franciemarnie, macca, intothelight and Marf for your welcomes.

I hope you and all are doing okay today. I promise, I will remember each one of you right now, in this moment and send you kind thoughts.