You Know You Are Healing When...

[Lionheart]

Sometimes I can recognize that I have healed a bit more because of thoughts that have changed, attitudes and beliefs etc.

I thought it would be a good idea if we train ourselves to focus more on our healing than on the problems that PTSD can create.

So what has happened in your life or during your day today that made you recognize that you are healing and moving in the right direction?

 

[watundah]

..I'm feeling sad/depressed/grieving and compassion vs nothing. It sucks, but it means a thaw is happening, I think.

 

[Bloomy]

Couldnt have said it better myself. Focus more on what heals then what keeps one locked up in ptsd prison.

Mmm - Im in debate with my self if Im only fooling myself that there are changes, but that might be negative self talk button again?

Cause even if maybe not today but on a general basis lately Ive taken more self care then Ive actually ever done. Im more present. Not in trauma - pain state. I guess this is an attitude change. Ive decided that its ok to bitch and complain as long as I put action behind it. I think I start to learn to accept that Im biitching and that its ok. I dont need to feel ashamed for that like Ive done before.

Self care including takin responsiblity for life I live. Regulary house chores makin surroundings in a way that doesnt contribute to make me further depressed. I deal with things more instead of hiding my head in the sand pretending issues doesnt exist.

 

[Pixielicious]

Sometimes I can recognize that I have healed a bit more because of thoughts that have changed, atti...

Lol!!!
I was actually going to create a thread similar to this, so thank you for creating it! ❤

Here's my positives

* I no longer have a death wish.

* I do not feel so alone anymore

* am opening up about my inner feelings

* Am not the only human on this planet with PTSD

* this site is a very precious to me

* I am fighting against the control PTSD has over my life

* I will never ever judge another person, ever again, for having a mental disorder or a mental illness like I used to do before PTSD sunk it's evil claws deep within me. Never.

* I'm grateful to be alive now.

 

[VioletButterfly]

Good thread! I've started to focus more on what I am doing consistently that is healthy and thinking about what I can add to build this out. I'm very near getting to where I can set up a small plan of action in this regard.

I'm also trying to keep myself in a place of acceptance instead of being in a state of constantly fighting and denying everything that I've been through and everything that I have going on now.

Also, I'm learning that I can feel something or have a thought, but that I don't have to act on either. I can distract myself or just be still with the thoughts/feelings. I've been meditating on "being still" a lot.

 

[Bloomy]

What I like about this site is that sometimes when I dont have the words my self some one here seems too. So grateful for replies here and will follow as I find it to aid.

 

[Friday]

Today? Nothing.

Over the past year, however, I'm more and more able to see a future. As in an awareness that it exists. When I get bad, that goes away. I may be intellectually aware that a future exists (exact same as I'm aware in a billion years exists), but it's not a real or tangible thing to me / I cannot make plans for next week OR in a billion years, and take either seriously. Actually being able to look forward? See a future, with me in it, and make rational plans? That's something I still don't have a lot of, much less all the time, but it's a more frequent visitor.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

One sign that I am healing and recovering is that I do not have expections anymore when I go someplace and tell myself what is actually real and this helps me to go with the flow easier, not perfectly but it works.

I am also laughing so much these days.

 

[Glo809]

Greetings

I have been living in small town Ohio corn "n" bean territory for almost four years. (By choice).

My job has now taken be back to the city (I deliver medical equipment) and the urban attitude is very hard for me to tolerate.

When I get a better grip on my emotions when dealing with city folk, then I'm getting better....
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[Ronin]

When a trigger triggers you for another reason than it used to for decades.

& When you are on the way of changing triggers into stressors, if you can't wholly eliminate them.

 

[intothelight]

Bad episodes are short and not intense and most of the time your just living.

 

[Pixielicious]

.. When I can control my anger and irritation and just cry....
.. When I can write and open up
.. When I can find humour or something good in a distressing situation or a thought...
.. When I realise that things could be worse, far worse...