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23-03-2007, 08:51 AM
| | | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Midlands Uk
Posts: 5
| |  Hello New Here - Trauma As a Teen
Hello, I have been reading the posts the last day or so, working up the courage to join.
Well here i am, i have PTSD and depression
Nicki |
23-03-2007, 09:15 AM
| | | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Midlands Uk
Posts: 5
| | well then
Answering myself after reading what i wrote, what a rubbish intro
I'll try again
My name is Nicki, i am from the Uk and live my husband of nearly 2 years, he is from the states and moved to the UK with me in May 2005.
I have PTSD from trauma as a teen and have been doing ok, med free for the last year, but over the last week or so it has really hit me hard.
So well here i am
Nicki |
23-03-2007, 10:40 AM
|  | | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: charles town, wv (usa)
Posts: 1,271
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welcome to the forum, nicki. glad you're here. |
24-03-2007, 07:48 AM
|  | | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: UK
Posts: 43
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Welcome Nicki! :)
I also have [Complex] PTSD and depression. Yeah, and I'm also in the UK! |
24-03-2007, 05:08 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Memphis, TN
Posts: 294
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Ello Nikie, welcome to the most wonderful bunch of NORMAL people you would ever want to be with. Stick around. |
24-03-2007, 10:51 PM
|  | Administrative Editor PTSD | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Hello Nicki, welcome to the forum. |
25-03-2007, 01:16 AM
|  | | | Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 647
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heya Nikki, welcome hon
cass |
25-03-2007, 03:03 AM
|  | | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: California by Lake Tahoe
Posts: 95
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Welcome UK Nicki,
What happened this last week that makes you want to check in? This is the most wonderful site. Lots of great stuff and folks who really care. It is good to find home in a place you can access 24/7.
We care,
Patty |
25-03-2007, 07:37 AM
| | | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Midlands Uk
Posts: 5
| | Thanks
Thanks for the welcomes
Just some triggers after being in my home town, has brought it all up. I struggled 3 years alone not working, not leaving my house, then I met my husband and just sort of pushed everything else away,
I threw myself into work and to being a good wife, cleaning and cooking, keeping busy, not thinking. The dreams and flashbacks have continued, but i have just kept busy, not allowing myself to think. I am not doing a great job at it, i suddenly feel overwhelmed and well to be honest, traumatised. I seem to have been kidding myself the last year or so, thinking denial can make it go away.
Looking back it has been bothering me over the last year, with the dreams, the flashbacks, and oh my such rages, for no reason... my poor husband. Remembering suddenly in the middle ofthe day, no idea what the trigger is, but rembering and feeling suffocated, like i have been winded, then just feeling horror, like i want to scream but i can't
i'm rambling i think, i think it is time i went back to therapy.
Thanks again for the welcomes  |
26-03-2007, 02:13 AM
| | | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: California by Lake Tahoe
Posts: 95
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Nicki,
All I can say is I relate. We are such persistant beings when it comes to strategies used to keep our feelings, symptoms and emotions stuffed. It works until it doesn't. Please stay with trying to get therapy. Anthony has such good "work through" stuff here too. I got caught up in trying to find a diagnosis for myself which after two months I think I have found. With that secured in my mind, somehow now I can finally start the work. I have only known about this site since late Jan and I can't say enough about it. Be brave and get the human help. We are the only ones who can really and ultimately save our own lives.
See you around,
Patty
Last edited by anthony; 26-03-2007 at 08:23 PM.
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