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surviving_it_all

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I find that I have major security issues. There are things that make me feel safe. There are people who make me feel safe. I don't know what I'd do without Facebook or this forum. They are safety blankets for me. I can't go a day without being online atleast for 2-3 hours. I wasn't always so dependent. I wonder how I can overcome this at all.
 
This might not be the perfect response...(but I will try). I think you are entitled to happiness and a feeling of security. These days we can get support in many different ways than when I was a kid. Do what works best for you and don't be so hard on yourself. Maybe with time you will develop some other interests that also bring you some joy....for me, I rediscovered 80's old school rollerskating and it really helps me forget the pain/fear of PTSD and remember a time when the world was free and easy. Hang in there :)
 
How you feel now is not how you will always feel. There are times when I can go months without my own security blankies, and then something unexpected will trigger those unsafe feelings again.

Right now you are feeling vulnerable but it was not always that way. It will not always be that way.

Take care of you.
 
Thank you both so very much. I want to get better. I really want to change. PTSD is treatable. I just have to approach my treatment wholeheartedly. I try to see what I do differently post trauma. It seems I approach everything much differently. I have blamed almost every way of living that were not the culprits in my attack. There was only one person responsible, but yet I have anxieties over numerous things and persons now.

Being stuck infront of a computer isn't really enjoyable. I miss reading books. My roomate has so many. I always wish I had the ability to open one up and read, but something happens when I do that I do not like very much. Its hard to explain. I miss learning in school. I miss it so very much. It seems odd, but I lose focus when I am studying because of fear of both succeeding and failing. I keep trying though, because I want to fail gloriously. It would better than failing miserably.

I find joy in many things. I just don't always feel safe doing them. I like old school music. That always perks me up. I am telling you Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, Frank Sinatra...etc they will fix you up. I will find new things. Perhaps, I can rediscover older things too. I just get so very scared or angry when I try.
 
I can't seem to concentrate when I try to read. I always end up in dissociation and lose hours and sometimes days that I don't have any memory of. This makes me so afraid. I think someday I am going to disappear and never come back. I am 56 and still having so many problems from the first 17 years of my life.
 
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