I want to remind members, mostly those who are new here, check sympathy at the door before coming upon this forum. Sympathy does not, will not, never has and never will be useful for helping PTSD. If you want sympathy then you want people to feel sorry for you for the trauma you have suffered, you don't actually want to get better.

If you want to get better, if you want to learn how to heal, one of the first things is to move from denial, which includes garnishing sympathy or desiring it, and moving towards facing your greatest past fears; your trauma.

Many new members arrive here daily, and you need to keep this in check if you want to get better. Sympathy only pulls you and others down to a lower place, none which is accepted or tolerated here. Please be careful as there is a fine line between sympathy and empathy, two very different matters. Empathy is given, sympathy is wanted.