Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Support Group
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SO, I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when I was 18.
10 years later, I get a PTSD diagnosis slapped on to go with it after months of having symptoms I've never had. (wonderful, right?)
It's been a year that I'd been diagnosed with PTSD. I "know" how to deal with the bipolar disorder, since I've been dealing with it longer. Only a year with PTSD, it's still a learning process even with therapy and DBT (it's been helping)
BUT I NEED TO KNOW:
The other day I had a dream. It was a nightmare/dream. It was one of those things, it wasn't a horrible memory dream like it usually is when I have the nightmares, get too afraid to go to sleep so I chug caffine, yatta yatta. No, instead this was a nightmare that adressed an issue I've never faced. But in a dream-like way. (It rained inside, rooms change and move around, you know, dream stuff).
After I woke up, I was spaced, but I was ok for an hour. Just stuck in this "OK, that was weird. But I'd never adressed that. Ok, just a dream, go take a shower, yatta". Went about my business.
But out of nowhere, I had this...thing happen. It wasn't a full-blown panic attack, and it wasn't a full-blown flashback. It was this weird mix. And it lasted for 3 HOURS. 3. HOURS. I tried everything I knew to do. Took a pill, laid still, tried to use mindfulness skills from DBT, even got to the point of smacking my leg until it stung to try to distract myself.
Has this ever happened to you? A weird panic attack/flashback kind of thing? WHAT WAS THAT? Why did it last so long?
I don't want that happening again, my GOD!
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Hey all, i know its been quite awhile since i posted on here. Its been a summer all right. Its been something else........... You know how they say not to open the can of worms? Well a few months ago i decided to find out what my due date would have been for my first baby, the one conceived by r***. My baby would have been due on March 4th of 2006. They would be 20 years old. I was R**** on June...
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My day...today...misplaced my debit card...didn't realize it until I got to the register after shopping to a full cart. Used a different debit card and pulled apart everything looking for missing debit card before I left parking lot. Got home, dropped keys. So now I have a missing debit card, missing keys. A full cartload to unload and put away. I got everything put away.Dumped purse for a...
Sorry.
I've done mushrooms once, and it was up there in one of the best days of my life. I learned so much. Grew spiritually.
But I've always been afraid to try LSD. But I'm so curious! HA! I don't think I'll be able to ever understand that.
What are ^they^? Theories abound, but. . . Hell if I know. For sure ^they^ are mind fuckus maximus.
Gentle support while you figure your own, Usern.