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I am absolutely feeling symptoms of PTSD. 3 months ago my husband slept with a 27 year old co-worker. We are both 55 and been married 31 years. This is the most devastating thing I've ever endured and the impact on my mental health has been unbelievable.
Before I start, I just want to say…that I don’t feel comfortable in this space. It’s hard to be in the trauma and PTSD forum, but for me at the moment, I’m working through a level of acceptance. I don’t have a diagnosis, I’ve never spoken to or seen
From everyone who knows me it shouldn't have been a surprise to me that I have cPTSD but it really was. I didn't realise how deep the effects went til I got my diagnosis and the past 2 months have been so full of rage that gives way to deep grief. I have
I have been feeling and questioning specific events of my past, rather haunting me more or less. Events which I have normalised for so long, but slowly I have felt a light shine through its horrid cracks, potentially revealing something quite traumatic. I
hello. i’ve never posted here before, and i don’t know if it’s allowed pls delete or lmk if it’s not allowed. last year or the year before i was told i have cptsd which wasn’t shocking news. i have had an entire life of very bad things. i got out of a ver
I saw my psychologist and we addressed the abuse I went through as a kid. Not about what happened because I don't want to talk about it in detail but more about the impact it has had on my life. It's like my whole life since then has been shaped by those
Hello I am new and I was looking for a forum that was about cPTSD, I am not yet diagnosed but I tick all the boxes, high ACE score, bipolar/narcissist abusive parent, alchoholic parent, domestic violence, loss, abandonment by biological father, separation
Hi I just thought I'd come here and open a discussion .. I have severe ptsd from my previous workplace ( I was medically retired 12 months ago) the last few weeks have been really difficult .. I had to move my where I had been living for basically my whol
Hi everyone,I’m new here. I’ve known deep down that something was completely wrong for decades, but I never knew exactly what it was. I always highly suspected cPTSD because of severe childhood trauma.When a therapist finally brought up Dissociative Ident
Never really spoken too much as I never know how to explain how I feel. I grew up in a violent household, with an addict father who was abusive to my mum. With that I have severe trust issues and ptsd. And yet I don’t hate my dad it irritates me that I ca
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