Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Support Group
Find support with others who have gone through a traumatic experience. Whether you have chronic or acute PTSD, we are here for you.
Do the holidays make your PTSD sytmptoms worse? They do me. I don't feel anything except that I want to hide. Holidays are not special and they don't make me happy. They bring back memories of happier days and make me feel depressed because I will never have that again.
It doesn't help that the health program that provided my medication is stopping on Jan 1st. It's one of those that got cut by Trump.
Happy Holidays everyone........
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It's official. They invented a washing machine that notifies you by text your laundry is done because of idiots like my hubby. Gotta redo the load b/c he left it in the washer overnight. EW.The skink caught by Dahlia two days ago remains hidden under our baseboards. WEon't come out for anything. I give up. I'll have to cope with the stink of dead skink which is likely its fate. Love Hubby but he...
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Twenty-five years since 9/11 attacks on the US changed things (or not).Current NYC Mayor Mamdani has released a shi*-ton of files about the air quality as it was known to be by the Giuliani administration 20-plus years ago. Turns out, yes, they knew it was that toxic. And, since people of all faiths died that day, let's not go into that, please. They were firefighters, bankers, cops, cooks,...
Thanksgiving and Christmas day are me time. My kids go to their dad's around noon. Then I majorly spoil myself. (Incl a grocery trip for ANYTHING that catches my eye.) I love my family time. I love my me time.
PTSD haunts me because my siblings trigger & add pressure. Indirectly or directly. I'd rather not see them at all. I want to hide inside myself. Curl under my favorite blanket and shut off the world. Sometimes I can get snippets of that. I have a lot of "migraines" when they're around.