Recently Diagnosed With PTSD

[lostgirl71]

Hello....I have recently been diagnosed with PTSD. Am currently off of work - but planning on going back on 2/17/09. I am currently going through the EMDR treatment and find that a little helpful. I just wish I could have it more than once a week. Am also on meds......Cymbalta, Clonzepam and Seroquel.

I have a hard time dealing with any type of anxiety......it really sucks and I am so tired of it. Anyhow...just wanted to introduce myself - am heading out the door to have lunch and to do some shopping. Even those tasks are difficult. Will have to take a Clonazepam to even walk out the door. How pathetic is that?

 

[Luthien]

Hi LostGirl,

Welome to the forum.
I think you'll find this a helpful and supportive place to be. Good luck with your return to work. It sounds like you are doing the right things to help yourself. That is a big thing.

You are not pathetic for having to take Clonazepam in order to be able to walk out the door, either. If it is something you find helpful right now, then I say, just do it, and don't feel guilty about it. (harder than it sounds, I know)

Take care

 

[Leda]

Welcome to the forum LostGirl.

And don´t feel guilty about your use of meds. Some of us need them for a period, others for the rest of our lives - thats just the way it is.

 

[Mercy]

Welcome, lostgirl

I think you will find lots of good support here.

Some folks here are too isolated to even think about going outside their own front doors. If clonazepam helps get you out, IMHO say keep taking it and resist the temptation, if you can, to stay inside which can lead to terrible isolation.

 

[sheilaterranova]

Hello....I have recently been diagnosed with PTSD. Am currently off of work - but planning on going back on 2/17/09. I am currently going through the EMDR treatment and find that a little helpful. I just wish I could have it more than once a week. Am also on meds......Cymbalta, Clonzepam and Seroquel.

I have a hard time dealing with any type of anxiety......it really sucks and I am so tired of it. Anyhow...just wanted to introduce myself - am heading out the door to have lunch and to do some shopping. Even those tasks are difficult. Will have to take a Clonazepam to even walk out the door. How pathetic is that?

I don't think its pathetic. Because you walked out the door. Thats the cool part. Who cares if you need help to do that? I have ptsd, too. been on meds ten plus years. they are my wheelchair, sort of. so i can go out and be me. i am still different than i was before, but i function pretty well. maybe differently. but i have learned a lot. i am actually sort of glad i have it and that it happened because i volunteer in youth jails and i am sort of obsessed with helping, so it gave me a mission. its okay. you'll be okay. at first i missed the old me. now i dont. i sort of like the new me better.but granted, its got limitations. thank God for the meds. i love being able to do things i couldnt do without them, like walk out the door. :) good for you.

 

[Jestadud]

Hello Lostgirl71
You probably don't want EMDR more than once a week it can be very draining and I think the mind needs time to try to make sense of all that comes up.
As for the meds, well sometimes you'd be stupid not to take whats available I was on Prozac for a month without even realising, as far as I knew I was on fluro something or other!

Jesta