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What Are You Feeling Today? Not Thinking, Rather Feeling! Can You Identify Yours?

Well, I knew April/ May had lots of negative history, but remembered many memories today that were sh*ttier than I even recalled, no wonder I blanked it out! Lol. However, they were just memories, not FB's, though for the life of me can't recall them now, though I don't need or want to. I think it's state dependent.
So I feel Hooray! What a relief, no wonder I felt lousy, felt like such a moron when I couldn't figure out the cause. So that explains it and I feel relieved and happy to figure it out. :)

And speaking of state dependent, got horribly ill today out of the blue, but remembered the majority of memories then, so maybe that was the same back then, and that would go towards explaining why I also get triggered and beat myself up when I get sick. So that makes me wonder. :unsure:

Also, don't know why my body is doing this, but then it passes, and I feel fine. :) :tup:

And as far as getting sick lately, have been beating myself up for not being able to get awake and jump up- just dragging even to getto work on time, I have no idea why as it's not because of meds, or drugs/ alcohol, not even OTC stuff for the most part. BUT, figured it out, simply will get up earlier, because otherwise my body won't cooperate, can't move- God only knows why? So I feel less guilty and know it's not because I'm not motivated. :) Because I didn't feel 'down' (mostly), either.
So now I maybe have found a way to get back into a bit of my own swing! (with modifications).
I'm happy I have a 'plan'. And hope not to get so angry at myself.

And, realized reading 3 things: #1, I've been equating ptsd (triggers) to a situation better handled in other ways (that I haven't been doing :( ).
And the situation is often more 'silly' now than violent- Yay! :) So I just need to be "out of sight out of mind", use distractions, lock my door.

#2, read that real friends stay by you when you/ things are most desperate and hopeless, so I feel less mistrust/ burdensome, and also relieved it's not the same desperate times as before. :tup:
And thankful, of course.

And #3, had a string of little coincidences that make me feel less (entirely) hopeless. :unsure::rolleyes:
 
A bit dismal. Maybe I am ungrateful? My parents have done things like help me with bond when I needed a home, and my father paid for my teeth to be fixed...but it was emotional support and understanding I needed, and sensitivity, not the comments they made, and the accusations of being ungrateful.

Dwelling too much here. It's making me feel a bit frazzled and uptight, and like I need to run around and scream or something? I'm also quite full from a rather filling dinner. I'm sick of eating take away, and spending money on take away. I want to cook nice meals again, but I've fallen into the rut of being lazy and just eating out all the time now.

I need a boyfriend, or at least someone to cook for more regularly. I have a family that share the house I am part of, and have said I will cook once a week for them...but I'm still in the phase of having to change the routine I've gotten myself into...which is not happening too easily. Frustrated...and bloated.

sleepy...I need to go to bed. And I'm premenstrual as well...yay!
 
I write on here quite regularly how I am feeling. Truth is, it changes so much, I have so many ups and downs in the day when I write on here it is a snapshot of just that second.

This second I am crying and lonely and so down.

About an hour ago I was hating myself and despising myself for being stupid and for having panicked and lost my temper over something stupid. And despising myself for turning into that horrible person I hate and ashamed that I just can't seem to control myself.

And half an hour ago, someone wrote something nice about an essay I wrote and I felt flattered, and pleased for about a couple of minutes. But then the negative voice started to talk. I want to believe it is a good essay, but the other voice won't let me accept it is and tells me it is just people being nice.

And then for a little while I looked up the song the Rythm of Life, because my essay was about the Rythm of Life gone wrong, but I had not thought about that song when I wrote it. And I listened to that song on You Tube Sammy Davis Jnr at his best and the song is so inspiring and so full of joy and life I actually felt happy for a bit.

But then, I got to where I am now, which is crying. Because my life is about the Rythm of Life that went wrong. It went wrong in my childhood, I learnt the wrong rythm and I can't find the right one ever. I have mixed up chords and notes and words that jumble together and make a song that isn't in tune and never makes sense and always brings me down.
 
But then, I got to where I am now, which is crying. Because my life is about the Rythm of Life that went wrong. It went wrong in my childhood, I learnt the wrong rythm and I can't find the right one ever. I have mixed up chords and notes and words that jumble together and make a song that isn't in tune and never makes sense and always brings me down.

Lizio... that's where disputing thoughts can be very helpful. Where is the evidence that you won't be able to find the right song "ever"??? At best it is unknowable. At worst it is a self destructive or paralyzing belief.

P.S. Perhaps the right song may have meant the one you originally sang. But if stay focused on that it is bound to disappoint. If you incorporate some of the original song into something entirely new that resonates with you and brings you joy to sing now... it opens up a lot of better possible outcomes for the future.

(Don't mind me, I'm not invalidating what you're experiencing... just showing the way my brain goes after the feeling/thinking... always fishing about for a thought/belief that "better serves".)
 
I'm anxious about my eldest Son going back to Uni. He thinks he's failed his last year. He has gone to Scotland for 2 weeks on a Geology field trip with Uni. Everyone has a laptop to do their work on except him, so again, his work will be behind everyone else.

He hasn't done his dissertation because every time he put a proposal forward the tutor rejected it. They wanted him to go to an area where he needed a car, he hasn't got one and hasn't learned to drive. He/we don't have the money to pay for lessons. He was told to go with some other people but when he asked them they said he couldn't. Now he will have to pay for another year at Uni and he has had enough. He was so nervous when he left this morning. I wanted to hug him but he never lets me.

My youngest son is at home and suffering from agoraphobia and anxiety. My H has depression and OCD. No time to think of myself. I want to escape but there is no where to go to.

I need a holiday but there is too much month at the end of the money.
 

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