Hello Alcina. Welcome to DS PTSD. I hope you find the support here you need. Grief is very difficult on top of all the trauma.

Welcome to the board Alcina. I, too, had my ptsd and depression affected greatly by grief. Its difficult dealing with any one issue, but it seems so many of us deal with several at once. I hope you will find more for your pathway of healing here at DS. Triple hugs

Hello Alcina. Welcome aboard. Sorry for what brings you here, but glad you are here. Friends and emotional support are a basic human need in my mind. I hope you find both here. I'm looking forward to hearing more about you.

Welcome aboard.

When my son was in kindergarten, there was a girl who came into his classroom to use the bathroom who had spina bifida and used two canes to walk. My son asked about the canes.

I told him that we ALL use things to help us get around, and helped him list all of the things that he used from the shoes he wore, to the big yellow bus that he road to school.

Then we talked about how silly it woul be to walk to school, when he could ride the bus.



Welcome to DS, and sorry for what brought you here. People can be downright awful with their labels and how they treat anyone that's different.

Welcome, Alcina, glad you joined us. My parents took our family to be missionaries in a war zone abroad when I was 9 and refused to be evacuated when US citizens began to be killed in our neighborhood. Our car was bombed and other mayhem followed for 6 years, including my being molested by a military officer and their becoming domestically violent as they got untreated PTSD.

Fortunately, I got help after coming up to the USA from a VA PTSD therapist who agreed to see me even though I was a combat veteran but not a soldier. That made the peer to peer support I get here at DS PTSD really stick, so I recommend a therapist if at all possible--a real PTSD specialist. He changed my life.

Welcome Alcina. We deal with grief as we can. Though to be honest it tends to magnify other things that are fears. There is nothing so humbling or scary than to think that for all the love we have, we can't change some things. Love anyway.
Hugs as gentle as needed while you get your bearings here.

i been in counseling but seems like all they want to do is send me to the psych ward which i been there 3 times in the past which none of those times helped me any.

I know, Alcina, over the years I've been in the hospital twice myself. It didn't really help me, but what did was finding that PTSD specialist. He finally, after 12 years with other therapists, understood me like people here understand me, too. I pass my experience along just hoping you can find your PTSD specialist sooner and not have to spend 12 years looking first like I did.

Welcome to the board Alcina…… I am sorry for what's brought you here but glad that you've found us.... This is a good board with some great people.... Gentle hug.....xo