This hit me kinda hard, because I go in for a therapy that is regularly given to people with severe trauma... and I'm told I'm ineligible because I'm too bad off currently. They're worried it'll just trigger me further. That made it really set in for me how bad things have gotten. I did get my doctor switched and I'm gonna be trying other forms of therapy, which I am grateful for, but I was basically strung along thinking I was gonna do this therapy for 2 months and made a bunch of empty promises, and my trauma is medical, so that actively fed into it and I feel like I'm in a worse place than ..read more

I think it is normal for people to easily confuse the two. In my case, I have a long list of PTSD events, and the truth is we all get temporary depression at least once in our lives. The body can regenerate, and usually if not always it depends on the environment/people around someone if the brain can restore normal serotonin levels. Been having to relive PTSD triggers often lately (for me I can get a bit of temporary depression from repetitive toxicity), and people in my environment try so hard to convince me I have depression and not PTSD. Does anyone feel the same? I've cried from remember ..read more

So my ptsd causes long panic attacks, flashbacks, and intense anxiety. So I can't sleep tonight because my girlfriend can't call (she already asleep) and I'm having a mental breakdown over trauma. Just i wanna sleep but I need her and I can't call her because it won't wake her up. I wanna be able to sleep soundly through the night but I can't because I don't have the ability to contact her until the morning. I just wanna not have ptsd and be able to sleep on my own submitted by /u/ParticularNarwhal667 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Around the anniversary of my friend’s death every year I get almost manic. That’s definitely not the right word but the best way I can describe it. Kind of self destructive and having untangle ideas, speaking fast, hyper, etc. I’m not bipolar and I was just wondering if this happens to anyone else? submitted by /u/Infamous-Context-995 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Last year my wife cheated on me with one of her coworkers. They were friends at first, but things evolved over time. I had a feeling something was going on, but every time I confronted her about it she just outright denied. Even when I presented her with what I believed were obvious signs of infidelity she denied it. At first I was angry, more angry then I have ever been in my life and I wasn't able to have a civil conversation about it. It was hurt, I wasn't myself. She told me to leave, so I did, and stayed with my brother for a few days. When I got back she continued to deny that anything ..read more

I was diagnosed with CPTSD a few years ago, and I mostly stopped experiencing flashbacks a couple of years after the sexual assault occurred, which led to the intense symptoms/flashbacks. However, I was sexually assaulted again just under two years ago, and it was on a holiday, so I experience date triggers and triggers related to decorations for the particular holiday. I mostly have stopped experiencing flashbacks because I have a phenomenal therapist of 10+ years who has helped me through processing much of the trauma. However, when I am under the influence (of alcohol), seeing familiar pla ..read more

I just moved out of my dad's place 3 months ago, after living there for 18 years in a emotionally and physically abusive setting (the physical was mainly when I was younger and it was only a few times as much as I can remember) I know it was a bad setting for me but I'm just now starting to get "episodes" of living back there again, I just got with a new girlfriend but being around her family can cause triggers and start these episodes. During them I go completely non-verbal and I start to shake terribly and completely lock up, to me, it's like living and being at that house again with differ ..read more

NSFW: mention of suicides and addiction. So tired of the stigma attached to mental health struggles and ptsd. When I tell a doctor that I'm depressed - even when there are real life events that have brought on a patch of depression - and I tell them my family history then it's like nope yip right, here's a prescription for an SNRI/SSRI, that's the answer. And worse, I feel like I've been branded with a big sign: difficult patient, major family history of mental issues, be cautious. (Context in a nutshell: my father and 2 brothers committed suicide, 2 cousins committed suicide + I had a viciou ..read more

(Title should say “dissociating”) Hi all, my family and I were in a bad car accident years ago. I had bad ptsd but the rest of my family didn’t. Today my brother was in a car accident. My dad currently looks like he’s falling asleep. Is he dissociating a ton?? I can totally get that this could be triggering, though I’m not aware of him dissociating or having ptsd symptoms prior to this. Should I be trying to keep him from closing his eyes? He says he doesn’t want to go take a proper nap. He also doesn’t want to do jumping jacks, which I suggested for grounding. I made him tea. Tl;Dr is this d ..read more

Recently diagnosed with ptsd & reading the book The Body Keeps The Score. I’ll be honest, it’s been a hard diagnosis for me to accept, but it all makes sense. Everything triggers me. I am triggered every day. Before my “break through” therapy session (where I remembered my “core trauma”) it was easier to cope with life, but in recent years becoming more aware, it’s been really hard to cope with life. I’m barely getting by each week. I’m working 2 jobs and about 70-80 hours of my week goes to work. This makes it extra hard and I’ve been able to do it but now I’m thinking about just going i ..read more