What Are You Thankful For?

[MarkHutt]

I believe info on this site and great members posting their experience and thoughts, have started my healing process.

Of course it's hard - these sometimes very painful things to handle - but avoidance does definitely not help.

One positive thought came to my mind about all this C-PTSD:

Could it be that deep understanding and awareness of this kind of phenomena makes us stronger? Kind of we have had to walk through immensely hard path, thorough swamps of horror and wilderness of beasts totally and utmost alone, and now we're reaching more solid ground under our feats, while "normal" people do not really comprehend such path exists.

I read somewhere here, that healing from PTSD makes a person much deeper person, understanding profoundly humanity, what it is that makes us humans.

That's I'm thankful for.

 

[Grama-Herc]

I am thankful that I have a friend. I mean a "true" friend. I consider that a very special gift and for that I am thankful.

 

[eyebiter]

I am thankful for the wonderful woman who puts up with me day and night!

 

[amethist]

Being able to cry, and my husband now being able to hold me until I stop. This is the first time he has been able to, since ptsd hit.

Thank you my love.

Amethist

 

[midi]

Being able to accept my limitations.

 

[cragger65]

I am thankful for those I can be honest with, and not be judged or rejected.

I'm thankful that I'm learning to share and care.

 

[Akita]

I am thankful that I'm not living in a bad place...
I am thankful for all of my wonderful friends...
I am thankful that my health is not too bad...

 

[goingonhope]

I'm struggling today with thankfulness. Thought I'd come here and say what I'm thankful for and it's just to plain overwhelming doing so today!

Imagine this will change, sometime soon perhaps. Lets see, I'll try again. :doh: I'm thankful .......(no I can't say that, it's bad and just plain wrong to say) O.K. :naughty: I'm thankful .......(no I ought not say that as I'm feeling just a bit too superstitious today, another words like the world is out to get us.)

O.K. :think: I'm thankful for my fingers that I can type, (now I only hope I don't lose the f'n things).

Whoever out there is doing the judging, here's a post to pass judgement upon. ........'I and others ought to think this and we ought to think that and we ought to feel this and not that, but feel that and not this. And, I ought to close my eyes, shut my mouth and do this and that and the other while I'm at it;'

:clap:I'm thankful my thoughts are my own, the blankness in thought all my very own, and my feelings not out-of-touch with reality. :clap: And, I'm thankful that though my eyes and mouth are shut for now, there's a possible chance that it's only temporary as I do this, that and the other.

 

[CCurry]

I have a lot to be thankful for:

* a bf whose finally embraced therapy
* whose starting to get better slowly
* who still is very affection with me despite his ptsd flare up
* I am getting better in coping with my own anxiety
* I love my job

 

[goingonhope]

I am thankful that my children were not in our auto accident.
I am thankful that God answered my prayer in the ambulance to see my children and husband again.
I am thankful to those wonderful EMT's.
......thankful to them again to have found us.
......thankful to them again for their ability to transfer their genuine care and services. :cry:
......thankful to the EMT woman who was willing to pray with me. :cry:

and, for more which I'll have to come back to.

Omg, I wish I could thank those two EMT's again. :cry:

 

[KP the nut]

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I have the same feelings.

 

[The Albatross]

I am thankful that I'm able to have a place to learn from others.

I'm thankful that I'm able to be on family medical leave while we care for my FIL (he's hospice).

I'm thankful that I have time to prepare for the eventual loss of another "healthy person" in my life and can begin to grieve in a healthy way.

I am thankful that my spouse and I are not drinking, even though his mother and brother are and it freaks me out some and is scarey.

I am thankful that I got time to write and get all this out of my head.