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Still Can't Shake It

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drum1forU

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Hello forum,

I'm here because i need someone to talk to.
I have been diagnosed with PTSD /ADHD by a therapist.
I was all but floored to find out that I had this hateful thing in my head.
it took to many years to find this out, my wish is to spend the balance of my life in a little better place
 
Welcome to the forum. There is a lot of information and a lot of helpful people here. I would write more but words escape me right now.

Tiger
 
It has been brought up many times by many people here that PTSD can make you feel like you need to hurry up and get better. No one wants to feel this way.
But If you look at it as a journey and not a reace it helps. Slow and steady is the way to go. we walk before we run.
This must be especially difficult with the ADHD,I am sure.
Just keep that all the effort it will take will be worth while.every painful step is a step forward-even when it sometimes feels like it is a step we have already made before.
We walk together here...when one falls we all try and help them up.
O
 
Hi Drum

Nice to meet you. Just keep posting and reading other posts - it's a process and we're all here going thru it together. We have good days and bad days, hopefully the bad days become less and less.

Welcome,
BC
 
Hi,

Welcome. it can be distressing to be told you have PTSD. This forum helps lots. The good thing about being told you have PTSD is that something can be done about it.

With best wishes,

dust
 
Hi Drum,

It's a nice place to be, and I wish I'd had the sense to come look for somewhere like this a long time ago. You received your diagnosis and seem to have immediately begun to try to at least understand. That's an awful lot to have done feeling like you must at the moment. If you're not too anxious, it's really helpful to click on the articles on the home page. I think one of the reasons the forum is so good for 'us' is that beyond the support, there is the comfort of an awful lot of solid knowledge.

Knowing you're not alone is a huge relief also, I know. So please come when you can, and take care,

Anni
 
Hi drum, Welcome to the forum.

My motto in therapy had been that knowing is better than not knowing. I realize knowing can be a painful and unsettling thing. But if you work through it, you'll come out in better shape on the other side.

I too spent many years being misdiagnosed and sometimes that makes me angry. But I've tried to put that behind me since it won't help me move forward.

Your wish for small improvements is a good and realistic place to start. You sound like your comping with the diagnosis well

Maria
 
Hey Drum,

I recently joined the forum. It takes a little while to be acclimate but once you do there are wonderful people and an incredible amount of helpful information. So glad you found your way here!

Welcome!
Gloria
 
Thank you all for the welcome.

I like to think I'm a fairly smart guy. But I'm at a loss for how to fix this I sought God to find some peace, I'm afraid that is a gift i have yet to receive.
I'm really hoping one of you can tell me how to live with this.
 
Maybe. You probably can't "fix this". You probably have to just live with it, and the sooner you start working with that reality probably the better. It's been years now for me. I've learned to use parts of it, and to compensate for other parts. Some things have mellowed, some things haven't. It's kind of like I died while remaining alive and there's a thread of the younger man left. It's easy to fall in a hole I know. I don't feel every day like I have fallen into someone else's strange life in the suburbs anymore, but I still feel it. Personally, I don't care about diagnoses. For me it's "Ok. Who cares? And what?" feeling response. What am I gonna do? You know what I mean there I think. That's the question you asked.

I do my best to be good to people. The buddhist dictum to serve others for its own sake helps me. I have one of those quotes from the Dalai Lama, a guy who knows a thing or two about bad stuff happening, "Never give up. No matter what is happening in the world, never, ever give up." I don't know that I'm a buddhist, but I resonate with it and respect it, if not all aspects of the cultures built around buddhism. I've mostly given up on finding peace. I'm a storm, but peace happens from time to time, mostly when I have accomplished something I set out to do.

For myself, I relax more when I'm under more threat and stress. But it's also exhausting and I know I 'm too old to really be there in the thick of it and survive. I've gotten slow. I don't make the connections I used to until a day or two later, where I used to get it in minutes. Guess I've gotten older. I said elsewhere that bicycling almost daily helps me. I get out and hike, got places. But most of all I think about what I need to do to calm other people, to help them, to be as good a person as I can. Don't always succeed, but it's a branch to hang onto you know. For myself, I've figured out that there isn't a whole lot that can be done about me. I hit the end of my rope and broke it so long ago it's lost in time. But a person can function in a kind of emotional free-fall. When I let someone I care about out of my sight, I have to say goodbye to them forever, as if they were going to their death because I know they might not come back. It's the only way I can deal with that and keep it together. Acceptance that I can't manage it is my ticket, along with lots of "reality testing" to make sure what I'm doing makes sense. (Mostly.)

Maybe my story can be useful to you, maybe not. You are going to be unique. Good luck.

Sometimes medications can help. If you have ADHD, there's stuff for that. Try to find someone who will work with you.
 
Hi
I posted reply yesterday, but it has disappeared, sorry. I wanted to welcome you to the forum, it's a comforting place to be. I also suggested (as weird as it may sound) that for your ADHD, look at your diet, google Sue Dengate, I guarantee it works.

Take care, and I am more than happy to help out with the diet thing if you have any questions. As for the PTSD, it's a slow process that cannot be rushed, this site is fantastic, research PTSD, get some help, find things that ease your mind, meditation, yoga, exercise.....

Clydie
 
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