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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. |  | | 
29-03-2007, 05:31 PM
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welcome PTSD'd Off, I like the name too, lol |
29-03-2007, 05:39 PM
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Originally Posted by map9  Hi PO, I'm new too and have many similar problems that you do. Welcome aboard. For years I struggled trying to find a place to fit in. Honestly, this place is like a dream come true. I can't thank Anthony enough, plus I laugh every time I see the dog on the forum logo. Take your time and read the posts, let us know how your doing and what helped you the most. We all need every bit of help we can get. Glad you found the forum and hope it helps you as much as it has helped me. Love, map9 | Is it a dog or a pig? I thought it was a pig.
Welcome PTSD'd off. I'm new, too. |
29-03-2007, 05:42 PM
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Welcome. I hope you post more often and see that PTSD is PTSD. I have "complex" PTSD and have been labeled with PD too with a few other conditions. Here you will learn that none of this would be here without straight up PTSD, it is all PTSD. Here it is all treated the same and relief is still found. I know what PD feels like, it is only a symptom (you have to trust that) of PTSD. I am in debt up over my eyes from it and lost all of retirement on docs over time. But this forum and guidance here has brought me down from 10 mg xanax a day to control it to 3/4 mg a day. Plus I am off zoloft now and a dozen other drugs. This place can turn your life around if you are ready. I have been in your shoes and I know light is at the end of the tunnel. You will slip and sometimes fall but you can get better. I hope you want to. |
29-03-2007, 07:13 PM
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Thanks guys - I'd love to get better - it's all I hope for. It's good that I can now give this thing a name and a face - now I know what I'm dealing with. I feel like I've taken my first real step on the path to recovery. |
29-03-2007, 07:21 PM
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Coming here is a real step if you stay. You will be pushed and at times pushed down. And damn it hurts as you feel you start over at times... But if you stick it out those of us who have walked and continue walk this path will help you up and point you in the right direction, only you can do it though. Just let those here guide you and know the pain we walk you into is temporary and you can be better. I have had this a long time and I know first hand. I have shocked doctors and was considered the worst case scenario, but even I am healing. I am relapsing (and it happens as it is normal) still I am healing and I swing to good days much more often. |
31-03-2007, 05:29 AM
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Hi PTSD'd Off
I am not sure besides the medications what you are doing, I have found "bodywork" to be helpful - try to look for a therapist that is familiar with Haokomi or Redenfeld methods. In the mean time, hang in - you have a right to be PTSD'd Off - anger is part of the process, as is pain, depression, tears. This is a rollercoaster ride! |
02-04-2007, 08:59 PM
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Thanks RN. We're all in this together - experiencing the same ride at the same time - I'm honoured to be sharing this experience with everyone on here? |
03-04-2007, 01:03 PM
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Coming in a bit late...welcome to the forum! |
06-04-2007, 09:15 PM
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Hi Mate I have finally found someone on Zoloft.I think its a good drug and have been on it for 7yrs.Hang in with it as it can take up to three months to have an effect what dosage are you on I am on 200mg per day the highest recomended by doctors.I honestly believe if I had been on it a lot earlier life would have been a lot different.It only looks after depression you will have to take other things for the other problems.If you get the depression under control you are half way there.Porky Rees |
07-04-2007, 10:27 AM
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HI PR - I'm on 100mgs but am looking at switching onto a different drug. I'm finding that Zoloft has a sexually inhibiting effect although I'm working with my psych on the switch. | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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