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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. |  | | 
19-11-2007, 02:56 PM
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| |  PTSD for Most of My Life
As this is my first post here, I am very nervous...but I know talking about things will help. My name is Daphne and as my username suggests...I live in Texas and have three kids. In my previous career, I worked as a pedi nurse, but now I am a stay-at-home-mom.
I have suffered multiple traumas from as far back as I can remember. Things got really bad around age 9 and went downhill from there. Most of my stuff is domestic or sexual, but I have recently had a couple of medical traumas as well.
For the past five years, I have focused so intensely on trying to get physically well that I thought I had gotten through the worst of the PTSD. However, I realized in May, when my Anorexia was back in full force, that I had obviously not learned how to effectively manage my PTSD.
I was amazed when I found this forum today. People who don't have PTSD just don't understand what it is like...just like I can't understand how it affects those around me.
I desperately want to get better, but I am so numb and dissociate so easily that I am afraid I never will. I am so terrified of feeling too much and not being able to turn it off.
I am so glad I found this forum...and was able to convince myself to join and post.  |
19-11-2007, 04:00 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: U.S.A. Kansas
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Welcome to the forum. |
19-11-2007, 09:33 PM
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HI Tx,
Welcome to the forum. Glad that you got up the courage to join and post. It a great community, with tons of wonderful people. |
20-11-2007, 12:41 AM
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Ive only been on for a couple of days. Im really happy to find this too. also have had ptsd for years from my childhood. Symtoms have been showing up since 85 when I was trying to raise children and didn't have a clue how to do that. Very little memory of first 13 years of life and was pretty much on my own after 13. had no boundaries, did as I pleased, no parents around, raised my self, with drugs, alcohol and relatioships with boys and some grown men. surpised I made it through it somedays. |
20-11-2007, 04:29 AM
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hi glad you found forum. |
20-11-2007, 05:51 AM
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Welcome to the forum. |
20-11-2007, 10:04 AM
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| | Thanks for the Warm Welcome!
It is nice to come to a board where new members are welcomed so quickly! I look forward to getting to know everyone and helping each other through life with PTSD.
Hollyberry, I too don't remember much of my childhood before junior high. I can remember certain things happening before then, but my memory is very sketchy. Welcome to the board as well! |
20-11-2007, 11:03 AM
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I have 3 children too. they are grown now, and have 3 grandchildren. |
20-11-2007, 12:42 PM
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Do you find that as your children and grandchildren turn certain ages that it triggers you?
When my youngest daughter turned 8 this year, I finally figured out that simply the age of my children could trigger me. I have 2 daughters and a son...and I have found that my daughters trigger me in different ways than my son.
My oldest daughter is 16, my son is 11, and my youngest daughter is 8. My 16 year old is technically my step-daughter, but I am in the process of adopting her. She has lived with us full-time for 4 years and her bio mother passed away 3 years ago. Since we have such a good mother-daughter relationship, we only use "step" on occasion. I only bring it up in this forum because some of my triggers are related to blended family dynamics. |
26-11-2007, 11:38 AM
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