hello

I just joined today and I was feeling vulnerable as well; it's understandable and not unusual

seven years is a long time! I hope you get support here

Welcome back Kaluki, it does wear us down to where it is good to have a safe place to vent...if you feel more comfortable just put TW-trigger warning.....or FF-fragile feelings on your post.....or even PNA-please no advice if you just need to get out something that is bothering you! Support to you!

thanks to both of you. I could do with support and a feeling of a safe place to come and say how I feel and for it to be okay

I am really really fragile at the moment. I am also suffering from serious lack of energy, like a physical collapse which makes life so much harder. And I feel so bleak. I really do. I am dreading tomorrow. I see my psychologist for the first time after a long break and it always goes badly when he has been away for a long time and I just haven't been coping. the session usually is extremely upsetting for me. I feel such a loser right now. I really do. I am sort of horrified how much of a loser I feel.

Welcome. Everyone is really nice here. I'm sure Ul get a lot of support here.

Hello and welcome! All are welcome, and I feel vulnerable and I've been on DS for 6 years, and on PTSD board particularly since 2013...

It's good to come here, where it's okay to be a wreck and now people understand why and how it happens.

I am just not very good at this sort of forum. I feel like an 8 yr old standing at the edge of the door, wanting to come in but seriously hurting and scared and not wanting anything to go wrong. I feel so vulnerable. I feel so weighed down by how difficult it is being me.

Hi Kaluki. Welcome aboard. Sorry for what brings you here, but glad you are here. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. The group seems to just keep getting stronger for every misery shared.

Is anybody good at internet forums? I started working on "Digitally Integrated Networks" (inter-nets) in 1974 as a "Data Communications Specialist." I went on to be a minion on the design teams that first allowed NASA to teleconference over satellite in the 80s. I survived the drudgery of dial-up modems and "Bulletin Board Services." And then on to web design. On-line forums? To my burned-out senses, ya can't be good at a thing that is still being invented. Get creative and clean up the spills as you go.

Which brings us to the forum "OT" (Off-Topic) alert. . . Just thought I'd demonstrate.

I had to look up, "CFS/ME." Found a .UK site ( http://www.meassociation.org.uk/about/what-is-mecfs/ ) that seemed to help me get an overview. I think. Since it is new-to-me, I am not at all confident of the information. Enlightenment needed?

I look forward to getting to know you, Kaluki. Any chance of getting to know where you got your Avatar Handle? Just curious. Answering is optional.

Hope you can forgive my OT ramble. I am currently in a hyper-expressive phase of my own, strictly personal cycle. My therapists tell me I gotta take the sock out of my mouth every so often. Hope I guessed right that it was safe to do so here.

Getting back to you. . . Welcome to the forum. Hope you get to feeling safe experimenting with the forum etiquettes. Works in progress.