Michigan Sufferer

[Lori Meade]

Nice to meet you all. I am suffering pretty bad from PTSD lately. I am not gaining ground and feel hopeless.

 

[Philippa]

Hi there.

You're in the right place and amongst friends, so it's ok to feel what you are going through right now. I guess just keep checking out threads that you are inclined to click on, and you will feel at home in no time. Everyone here is in the same boat, and it can feel like you are getting nowhere with this beast.

 

[Deleted member 13190]

I'm in Plymouth. It's a struggle but a battle worth fighting. There is help.

 

[Maggs]

I am also a Michigander from Holland. I suffer from severe PTSD related to medical abuse. What part of Michigan are you from?

 

[katz]

Hi , everyone
I'm in the Detroit area-is any one else?

 

[intothelight]

Might want to check out the Midwest Support group.

 

[Valeur]

I am not gaining ground and feel hopeless.

One thing Im often reminded of both by myself and by my new therapist and my old one (whom I'm still in contact with) for that matter is that even baby steps are steps forward. I know it doesn't feel like it and I know all you want to do is curl back up into a little cave with that defeated part of yourself and never come out again but you are still reaching for the exit to that cave. If you weren't you wouldn't be here typing and reading and searching for some sort of solace in this world. Sometimes... hell, most times we dont give our selves enough credit for the steps forward we have made and are making. At least thats my experience. Its hard to see the progress when it feels like the pain will never end so it takes extra effort to find that progress and I guess thats where others come in. To point that out when we ourselves just dont believe it.

I live in Bay City Michigan... well Essexville but thats just a burb of BC. Its currently 4:30 in the morning, sleep is one thing those of us with PTSD pretty much all have issues with but its not hopeless. Tell yourself you can see the light at the end of the tunnel even if you dont believe it but just know there is light there. Sometimes thats all I have that gets me through the day... or night.. or whatever they are anymore. I suppose I should just call them the hours as sometimes several days go by before the exhaustion catches up with me and knocks me out. No matter what you want to call the time that passes, we will endure through it because whatever it was that brought us here. We survived and endured that... at least physically. Now is the real fight to live, not to just survive and we can and we will do it.

Cristy

 

[amethist]

Please keep the Find A Friend threads for passing on basic information only.

Thanks