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.
I'm back from a great trip back to where I got PTSD, and with your support here, face down some trauma demons I never thought I could confront. I didn't do it alone. Thanks for being with me.
Back here now, I have renewed motivation for how we welcome newcomers here who begin the road to recovery. I am so proud every time I see us all do that.
It's more hopeful a journey than I thought at the beginning. By the same token the journey of recovery is longer than I thought.
Any words of wisdom out there for how to stay on this journey and yet pace yourself, too? I've only been here for just over a year now. But I'm already seeing that people more experienced than me wisely take breaks, come back, do certain things they need to do for their PTSD recovery. I'm seeing I need that wisdom, too.
What works for you? What works to help you keep to the middle way, to balance out between quitting on the one hand and burning yourself out in recovery work on the other hand?
Back here now, I have renewed motivation for how we welcome newcomers here who begin the road to recovery. I am so proud every time I see us all do that.
It's more hopeful a journey than I thought at the beginning. By the same token the journey of recovery is longer than I thought.
Any words of wisdom out there for how to stay on this journey and yet pace yourself, too? I've only been here for just over a year now. But I'm already seeing that people more experienced than me wisely take breaks, come back, do certain things they need to do for their PTSD recovery. I'm seeing I need that wisdom, too.
What works for you? What works to help you keep to the middle way, to balance out between quitting on the one hand and burning yourself out in recovery work on the other hand?
I,become an observer of me ... I use no,judgmental language but instead I am descriptive of all I,see .. Then I comfort the me I,am observing... With words I,know,I'd want to hear... Love, validation , calmness and hopeful,thoughts ... Often I have diffused severe anxiety attacks by stepping back,and analyzing what the heck,set that off? I guess it stops,the attack and helps,me discover the trigger ...
In the end tho... I,rely on prayer. As lovely and as amazing as my therapist is... My Heavenly Papa is,the best medication for me .
Blessings to,you!
Acceptance and pacing myself are the two biggest 'helps' I have found. When the numbness of severe PTSD first hit it was so completely 'strange' it took time before I understood what it was and the protection this numbness provides to allow for needed rest and to allow me to 'catch up' with my situation as it changes over time.
((hugs)) shared with everyone.
Pace is a big tip for me.
I had to thank each of you for sharing.I need these tips, at this time in my life as I face some confronting events that led to my PTSD.
I cried as I read all of your posts, I'm not alone in any of my feelings. I'm not mad. As I read them the panic set in. I had to stop awhile and medicate as I read further posts. Today was a break through, but it was this particular post that helped me start.
I humbly thank each and every one of you brave Souls. You have no idea the impact your sharing and writing made on the course of a fellow Human being today. Bless you one and all.
You wrote: " cried as I read all of your posts, I'm not alone in any of my feelings." Absolutely. This is one place we with PTSD are finally not alone.
Keep coming back.