Tell them your fears, Silver. If you can't function outside a support environment, then they need to know. If you are still discharged, then don't forget you are not alone as long as you remember we're here for you. It's not perfect, and we can't give you a hug after a nightmare, bbut we've all had those questions.... What will i do/how will I cope/function.... We have them every single day.

HUGS

Being discharged out into this big bad world is indeed frightening, sil. If you're not ready, tell them so. If not, try to think of coping as just getting through the day, not as trying to resolve all of the big issues that face us all who live with trauma. Nobody can do that. We just need to function little by little. We'll be here for you every day. Let us know how discharge goes if it happens, ok?

Lean freely and often here, Silver.

Breathing with you. . .

Thank you so much ((((((((Friends)))))))))

You can function if you share.. please reach out, your not alone.

Hi Silver
How is going?

Thank you janroll and Rose for caring.

I am not doing so well...

Very very low.

Everything feels so slow.

My eyes are dead.

When I'm backed into a corner and my ptsd is insisting on fight or flight, life or death, I've learned there is that third option to do neither, just to put it in neutral and exist. I got that from my ptsd meditation group and its Buddhist saying "don't just do something, sit there!" It's hard to be counter cultural like that, but it helps me.

When we're drowning in quicksand, our first instinct is to struggle harder, but that's exactly what makes us drown more. As desperate as we feel, it's stopping that saves us by keeping us afloat.