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Small things, great victories. What’s yours?

I purchased premium versions of apps I’ve been using to help my fitness and health goals such as exercising regularly and eating enough as well as the correct macronutrients for my goals. Keeps me busy and focused on self care
I use one a few times a year just to make sure that in the broadest terms, I am eating well (and enough). Just got through my spring session and all is well. Was concerned because I changed a maintenance med and lost 30ish pounds without trying....
 
@Freddyt wow yeah hopefully you feel good!

I try to use it everyday but doesn’t always work and I can refer to “good eating days” in my mind which still helps me eat
 
So I did a thing the other night. I took one of my poems about my trauma and did an open mic for spoken word poetry. I thought it would be a smaller venue, but there were 4 times more people there than I thought would be there. I wanted to back out, but I didn't. I was able to get through it and read it all. I sucked at it, but my goal was to just do it.
 
picked up an old old guitar and plugged in and tuned it. Amp works, action good, guests I was waiting for arrived so I turned it all off and put it away without playing. First time in maybe 14 months, broke the seal I guess. And I shared this story with another human so there's that. I hope it will all be like the proverbial kid in a bathtub, doesn't want to get in, doesn't want to get out. An hour of playing and I will wonder what the big deal was. Right now it is still a big deal, with a broken seal I guess. Scared I will find out it is just plain as gone as it feels gone.
 
I think I’m learning how to be intimate. It’s destabilizing as hell but I have enough tools in my toolkit to right myself, even if it takes a while sometimes. Along those lines, I’m seeing someone. That’s a mundane thing that’s ginormous in my world—I been writing on the forum about wanting (and fearing) something like this for a long time. The relationship is around five months and it’s not in danger of going away though I do have to deal with my protectors telling me to run away frequently. Currently dealing with that because of a breakthrough in terms of trust and communication. Weird how those backlashes still happen! But yeah… it’s a mundane thing that’s an accomplishment overall.
 

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