PTSD and Trauma recovery

[Apocalipstic]

Originally Posted by julieisafemme

I have read this thread from the beginning and I really appreciate it. My only contribution so far has been thanking posts. This let's me participate without having to share. I am not able to. I find help and solace in reading the posts of others.

I appreciate Lady Jewel's attempts at creating other venues to share. I agree with Gemme that this thread is a sort of peer counseling. Chat would not work for me at all. Even if I could get the gumption to request a password I am not able to keep up with the speed of chat. I would also have trouble with the impermanence. I am slooooooow. I need to read and re-read things sometimes several times before I understand them.

There might be others reading who have never thanked or posted or anything. I would hope people would continue to share here for those of us who cannot particpate fully.


Thank you to all of you who have shared your stories.

Thank you Julie! I am not much of a chatter either...It goes too fast. Or I might not feel like talking about it at the appointed time.

Like the other night, when I was spun out over the cemetery guy calling...I was crying and flipping out and needed somewhere to just vent a bit...in all my ridiculousness.

By the way, my sister was able to reach Rocky the cemetery dude and let him know that anything to do with my dad freaks me out and that I think up all sorts of idiotic scenarios. Like I am sure if bodies were digging up out of their own graves in Goodlestville, it would have been on the news.

I did not get to see his body after he died and some days I worry that he will show back up and his death will have been a happy dream.

My doctor says I have zero affect when I talk about my childhood...I talk about it like it was someone else. Like all that stuff happened to someone else.

Stuff that has happened to me as an adult that is really bad, does not even seem to touch me that much..I react like it's no big deal....