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| | Notices | Welcome to PTSD Forum. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a life threatening, debilitating disorder that can break down a sufferer’s body through anxiety and stress. Further it poses a significant suicide risk resulting from the brains neurological imbalance and chemical depression. Sufferers often live in denial, thus this community is aimed at helping PTSD sufferers help themselves through others experiences, guidance and education. We are here for the sufferer, spouse and families surrounding PTSD. Spouses and family are too often forgotten in this equation, and often they receive all the worst that PTSD has to offer. If you're involved in any way with PTSD, get registered and help yourself now. Non-active members will eventually be deleted. If you are not a sufferer, carer or someone within the mental health industry, and active, then there is little reason for you to be a member of this forum. Non-active members with zero posts are deleted periodically during the year. |  | 
07-03-2007, 04:13 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 24
| | Married, Friends Yet Still Feel Alone This doesn't make sense and it irritates the bajeezes out of me. I'm happily married, have friends but I still feel totally alone. I know why. For me it marks the beginning of a depression cycle. I am totally sick of this whole thing. I have had enough!!  It's like I'm visiting my life, if that makes sense. Anyway, that's my whinge. Can anyone relate??? | 
07-03-2007, 08:40 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Tampa, Florida
Posts: 2,255
| | More than you know! I'm not depressed, but dealing with so many emotions right now and it just makes me feel like I'm standing all by myself sometimes. I, for one, will be glad when this part of my recovery eases up a it. | 
07-03-2007, 10:52 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: charles town, wv (usa)
Posts: 1,287
| | very much. hang in there, you are seeing the truth--that you are not alone, and that it is depression coming on, so you have to keep telling yourself the truth, and look for a distraction that can put a little joy in your life. fight it, i am learning this very lesson right now, too.
cathy | 
08-03-2007, 02:15 AM
| | | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: florida usa
Posts: 201
| | i think everyone who has life feels totaly alone at times. some of us feel it more than others. but you are right depression can mess up alot i didnt know and ran from the truth about mine far too long. seeing it and knowing what is happening to you is a big step. you are doing great. hang in there. | 
08-03-2007, 02:30 AM
| | | | Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 43
| | I can relate. You know the old cliche about being surrounded by people yet lonely and being alone yet not lonely... Feeling like a bystander in your own life is also familiar to me and depression really makes it worse because that can complete the vicious cycle if I start to be alone, thus making myself more lonely. If that makes sense. I guess it is good you are happily married and have friends. My friends were very very important for me when I was really depressed last year because I stopped eating, sleeping, going out and they would come over and haul me off for meals and just company. | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes | Linear Mode |
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