Hi i'm an 18 year old girl, and i had a traumatic event about 2 years ago. i have been diagnosed with PTSD. i am having a lot of trouble talking about the event, because i feel that nobody i know can understand it. i dont know if this is common or not. i started talking to my school counseler a few weeks ago, and he suggested i try talking to people who, although i dont know them, share a similar experience so i dont feel so alone. i feel funny, but i want to try it. i really want to get better

Hi Fhcrew, welcome to the forum. Your counsellor is absolutely correct, in that you need to get out what is within you.

Hi fhcrew7 and welcome to the forum. I hope you can start writing about what is on your mind in order to heal. There is a lot of good information here to help you.

Peace
Tammy

Hi and welcome to the forum....

Hun, I had a therapist I had since I was 15, when my father died, she is also a social worker, and when I had enough of mom, would be able to be placed elsewhere of my choice.
When I was about 27 ish I had my first major flashback, I went to her, said some of it, it was very gruesome and she was a mommy type, and asked her, now have you ever helped anyone who went thru such events, she said no, I said then you can't help me.
It was on that very day my fingers kept dialing til I found a dear friend Sarge, I can't even begin to tell you how I got to him, so many calls til I got him, I repeated my flashback but in detail since he was a vietnam veteran, I said do you understand this from experience, he said yes, and I said well then, you are the only one who can help me.
He asked me what if anything would I like to do enjoyable, like a child being ask what present I wanted, I said go eat sushi, he said put your boyfriend on the phone, he owned a bar and it wasn't open yet, he picked up the other line, and I over heard my boyfriend say, but I don't like sushi, where by Sarge said, Just do it!!!! in a firm voice.
Billy Jack took a back seat to being my hero (71' movie Hero), I had the real deal.
People here understand,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,you are being heard,
bless you and welcome........
Donna-Lynne

Welcome to the forum

Welcome fhcrew7

This is a great place to learn that you are most certainly not alone and i'm sure you will find that too. I guaruntee that while it may be ever so difficult, it can help you to learn to open up withiout being judged. Doing that has certainly helped me. Keep at it.

Take care

Welcome to the forum. I have yet to really open up here myself but as time goes on and I read and post, I get more comfortable with the idea because the people here genuinely do care. I just had to get to know them a bit first. Take whatever time you need and you'll see that you are not alone.
Take care, Morgan

Fhcrew,

I am almost 40 years old. I wish I had been diagnosed a long time ago and had the courage to do what you are doing. You are helping yourself. That seems very brave to me. I hope you find healing and do not develop the entrenched defense mechanisms and unproductive thinking patterns that have made most of my life very difficult...I am getting help now and am working at changing. I admire your effort. I spent too long thinking it was just my problem to fix alone. Good luck.

Welcome fhcrew! I am brand new myself. I have been reading for a while now before I got up the nerve to post, and it seems like a great place, with a ton of very useful info.

Donna-Lynne, I wanted to say hello to you as well as I am also in NC, and I loved the Billy Jack ref.!!!! You must be somewhere near my age if we both know of DA MAN, lol. And speaking of which, is a good hero to have, thanks for the reminder! It's a great visual to imagine, if anyone ever treated us wrong, ie. abusers some of us have, Billy Jack would come busting in and make short work of the perpetrator! Chop-chop!!

That's one to add to the dvd search list!

Good luck, and hello everyone