HI I'm new here

Hi @CogsWhirl and welcome to the forums.

Firstly, well done for telling your story. That must be extremely hard to do. You are right, it is terrible for all survivors of DV whether they are female or male. I am sorry you had to go through what you did.

I am glad that you have received support and that it has helped. Do you still have a support system in place?

Again, welcome to the forums. I hope you find the support you are looking for on here. I have never been through DV but I do understand that we have our good and bad days. On here you will never be alone. I found out that a while ago. There is always a listening and compassionate person to listen to us.

Thank you Snowie,

I finished up with my Psychologist a few months ago. We both came to the conclusion that I was doing OK and she had given me a lot of resources. Mostly, I can get through the hard times, but domestic violence gets brought up so often in the media and such that I keep getting drawn back into my whole experience. I read somewhere about coping ugly in regard to PTSD, meaning that you do have your good days and also the bad and you just need to accomodate them. This kind of gets me through because I think about impermanence and this too shall pass and all that.

But there are those times when I'm scared. Having somewhere to just express my hurt, like on this forum, is good as a release

Anytime @CogsWhirl

I suffer from PTSD too for different reasons but can totally understand the good and bad days.

I am glad you have resources from your psych, hopefully they will continue to help you as you continue in your recovery.

I hope that this forum is a good release for you. I find it a good place to express my feelings, especially if I have no one else to talk too. I also find it a good place to get my thoughts out and then move on from them.

Thankyou for sharing your story.

Growing up I saw alot of domestic violence, for years my mother verbally and physically abused my father, my father would try to reach out for help by calling the police but the police did not help him but instead was told, "you need to control your women". My father toIerated being abused by my mother for years and then he left my mother.

I myself have been diagnosed with PTSD. I also have been diagonosed with Major depression and anxiety.

I try to have good distractions like listening to music I just recently started listening to Rag n Bone man music which helps me stay calm.

I also have my good days and bad days and on my bad days my mood is very low and I get scared.

This is my first time on this forum. I was anxious about signing up to this forum but after reading your story, I just needed to reply to your story.

Thanks again for sharing your story and take good care of yourself.

hello and welcome @LiveFreedom

soo glad you did sign up here

letting you know that you are not alone my friend

yes music trepary is good , my husband has it nice and loud when he needs it

hello @CogsWhirl , @Snowie

Thanks for your story. D.V. and coercion are tricky conversations but we have to have them.