Hello Luna, nice to meet you. I am kind of a newbie here too, about 2 months. But I have never been so blessed being a part of this group. These are wonderful people here and are very caring and knowledgeable. We're glad you are here.

Welcome, Luna. As I always say and mean whenever welcoming a new member to join us, I'm sorry for the trauma that brought you here. But I'm glad you found us. This is a healing group of folks.

I wish I could say your journey to a PTSD diagnosis was unfamiliar, but that wouldn't be accurate. A lot of us have gone through a process of eliminating other diagnoses one by one until settling on this one. The symptoms of PTSD can be similar to those of bipolar disorder, for example. And even then, for a number of people here the 2 overlap. Then there's the depression diagnosis, a symptom often seen with PTSD, and others, too.

I took meds for my PTSD for many years, but I found they were usually just able to treat my symptoms, not my roots causes of flashbacks, panic attacks, startle responses, and insomnia, etc. Nor how sometimes it seemed I chose to pursue relationships that echoed the abusive ones that gave me PTSD in the first place. Those victimized me all over again. To get to the root of all of that, it took years of talk therapy with a counselor for me. It was hard, so I understand how you say yours is "getting pretty difficult."

So we're glad you made it. Hello to you, too.

Hey Luna, welcome aboard. You'll get tons of support here =)

Hello, greetings, and nice to meet you. Wish we didn't need a board like this, but thank goodness we have it. It's become my haven the last couple years.

Yeah, I was "Generalized Anxiety" till they did some therapy for it and it unleashed 20 years of bad bad stuff. PTSD, anyone? Yep. I am on meds that kinda mostly help. I still have cry-till-I-vomit days and bad bouts of hurting and so on, but at least not to the point of ending up in the Emergency Room anymore, so I know that process can take time and even luck.

Gentle hugs of support, and again, welcome to the board:-)

Welcome to these great group of people. :)

Thanks! :) it's nice to meet everyone

Hello Luna, it's sad that you have to be here, but it's lovely to have you. I'm new here too, but from what I've seen, this is a wonderful community.

Welcome, there are some great people here. There has also been a lot of healing and growth here, but from what i know myself and have seen in many others is that it take a lot of hard work to get better. Getting better does not necessarily mean that you get or have the perfect job or any of that. In fact some people never work again but getvery healthly personally. Everyone is different and has a different journey. Again welcome.

Hi and Welcome to a wonderful group Luna....x

Welcome to the group Luna! I'm glad you found us, there are a lot of brilliant, kind and understanding people here. This group helps me a lot and I hope it does the same for you!