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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. |  | | 
04-11-2007, 01:13 AM
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Glad you are here,can't believe i'm here too sometimes and in some ways. haven't come across any sites like this one and its not just my memory :-)
understanding and healing to you if thats the words |
05-11-2007, 12:53 AM
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Welcome tmb,
vst |
15-11-2007, 05:25 PM
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I watched my brother and sister get the crap beat out of them ( while I was the "golden child").
Since then, I had joined a cult, was raped in the cult, in March of this year LEFT the group, and have found out, my sister's parrallel journey of raising a son with Asberger's.
The outcome is the same for both of us.
After 18 years, we cannot cope well with others.
We do not work well with others ( even though our father
was gregarious beyond a doubt)
it has been difficult.
Just share your thoughts.
You are welcomed and loved. |
22-11-2007, 04:54 PM
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welcome! =)
(suck at this... but wanted to say hi!) |
23-11-2007, 02:52 AM
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welcome to the forum |
23-11-2007, 08:09 AM
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Just wanted to welcome you here |
26-11-2007, 12:43 AM
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Welcome. I also have PTSD due to childhood abuse. I can truly appreciate what you are going thru with all the intense emotions. For years I did not know what was wrong with me and thought I was flawed until I found someone who told me what it was. It is a long journey but having a forum I think will help a great deal. I have just joined as well and feel good about it already. |
21-12-2007, 08:42 AM
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| |  Lots in common!
I am also new to the forum. I am 56 and have just been diagnosed with PTSD. The earliest memory I have as a child is of beatings. And from there it went downhill. I was relieved once I was diagnosed. On Valentines day I "watched" my mother die. My sister ( who was severly emotionally disabled) died this year also. My son was diagnosed with HIV. My daughters husband kicked the dog down the stairs and demanded she get an abortion or he would kill her. I held her hand....so I guess I just fianlly fell apart. I think the forum will help us if we let it. I am optimistic. I have a name to out on it now and a wonderful counselor. I welcome you and wish you good luck.  God Bless!! |
21-12-2007, 09:32 AM
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| | One more thing
I have all of the usual symptom but all my life I have avoided small places (clostrophobia) sp? And I HATE it if someone holds me down or my hands or any such thing. Is that pretty normal also? |
21-12-2007, 01:19 PM
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Hey tmb. It does seem odd that this stuff comes up in the middle of otherwise good times, doesn't it? But it makes sense---being strong enough to handle it.
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