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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. |  | 
16-02-2007, 12:57 AM
|  | | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Florida, USA
Posts: 1,160
| |  My Intention Today
:drugs: My intention today when I turned on my laptop today was to resign from the forum. I am in the middle of a bad run of symptoms. My desire is to crawl into a deep, deep hole and pull it in after me. I feel this place is causing me to stress out entirely to much and I'm not to sure I want to experience this. If it is designed to help out, I don't think that I really want to "Go There" I am in a bad way and even all the resourses given to me thru therapy do not seem to be working. I WILL BE OK that much is clear to me but I'm just not handling this very well. These feels are all to familiar to me and I do not like them. I really have to many thingsa to do to feel like this This panic must stop. So who out there can talk me dwon or explain that this is a normal response for people who have joined the forum and all I need to do is ride it out the way I've learned to do and come back when the strom is over Herc needs help |
16-02-2007, 01:14 AM
|  | | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Newfoundland & Labrador
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Have you read the thread, Reading Forum Increases Symptoms? It's a sticky at the top of this board... can't seem to make a decent link today for some reason. I'm not one to talk as I come on here way too much myself, but it is important to take a break from the forum now and then. |
16-02-2007, 01:21 AM
| | | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Florida, USA
Posts: 1,160
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Hey girl, thanx gonna stop for a while cuz this one ride is rough |
16-02-2007, 01:42 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Irvine, Scotland
Posts: 486
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Hi Herc. Just keep going old girl, I'll try and help you through this as well, pm me if you wish, but keep in there my friend, I get days like this as well. But the forum helps me as well.
Take it easy my friend
Scott  |
16-02-2007, 05:58 AM
| | | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Now in Arizona
Posts: 217
| | take a break
Herc.. when I'm having a bad day.. it helps sometimes to just take a day off from the forum.. rest your brain.. and come back when you feel better. We're not going anywhere.. we'll be here for you. hang in there.  |
16-02-2007, 07:44 AM
|  | Administrative Editor PTSD | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia
Posts: 7,352
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Herc, the intent of the forum is exactly as you mentioned... to get people triggered, opening up, and healing more importantly. You have to be ready, because PTSD is not going away, its only going to get worse if left untreated, not better. People have to generally find that out for themselves though, and most just don't want to listen... no better knowledge than experience. |
16-02-2007, 09:32 AM
|  | | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: charles town, wv (usa)
Posts: 1,265
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hi herc. most of us take breaks when we are feeling rough, i usually look at a few threads anyway, but am careful which ones. until you can handle it, stay away from the trauma diaries, i still have to look at only mine.
cathy |
16-02-2007, 12:18 PM
| | | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Central Illinois
Posts: 19
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We chatted in a private message about the fact that you are a new computer user... and it was causing you a lot of stress. I think that is very understandable. I had teen agers to help me learn the net and I'm sure it is quite over whelming. Just take your time (in both learning to use a computer, and this forum) and I'm sure both will get better with time. Small and steady doses of both! Huggs! Hang in there! ~Norma |
17-02-2007, 01:40 AM
|  | Moderated Member | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: North east coast ,, USA
Posts: 140
| | god to hear you
Hello Herc 3 of 4
You have got all the right advise all ready ,, I do hope you just take a little brake ,, then try againg ,,,,, Beatle Big Hug to ya |
17-02-2007, 02:12 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Irvine, Scotland
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Hi Herc, just take it one step at a time ok, my old friend, if you want to drop me a pm, please do and we can have a chat ok.
Take care
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