Why Are We Here? What is The Purpose?

Well, we are here because we are looking for others who know what we suffer, instead of only those who "think" they know what we suffer.

The purpose is easy if you want it to be, and that is to help yourself. To help yourself is to get you talking about your trauma, to get you opening up and releasing the pain you hold within you, the very pain in which is constantly triggering your syptoms to fire. Symptoms of PTSD are caused by our inner pain due to trauma, the pain we hold within us, the pain we hide, the pain we often have never resolved, regardless how much we have talked about it, we have not truly come to terms with it, or we simply have lied, put up a mask, a front, in order to cope in society and life, not actually live. We fool ourselves and others into thinking we are normal just like everyone else, when in fact we are hiding our pain and causing ourselves more as we travel life itself.

The purpose is to help yourself, nothing more, nothing less. Nobody can help any person if they don't want to help themselves first. Educate yourself as much as you can on PTSD, bounce ideas of others, look within yourself to every negative aspect of your life, and ensure you remove every negative with positives, or atleast accept if a negative is a negative and remove the stigma associated with it. We cannot remove our memories, nor change our pasts, but we can come to terms with it, we can accept what has happened happened, and nothing we do now can change it, though how we live with it we do control.

So much to say on this one really... its an open ended topic. Nice thread herc...