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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Oh boy, what do I win for a bingo?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Crippling anxiety and a five figure therapy tab, in my experience.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have this cool life hack for avoiding high therapy costs; not being able to afford therapy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sorry man. :( I'd be long dead if I was in that situation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Thanks. It is what it is and I've got things to cling to for better or worse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Spin the wheel to find out!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I experience every single one of these on a routine basis. Discovering and subsequently reading about CPTSD was utterly revelatory for me.

Treating it is another story...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Tight/tense muscles. A result of “armoring.”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

I was diagnosed with PTSD but my doctor never went into detail about what it means or offered any support beyond antidepressants. I experience every single issue laid out on this board, and it's helpful to see that it's "normal" for folks like me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Avoidant, checking in! Everything is awful!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Everything is awful is like the parody cover of Everything is awesome?

BTW sometimes I say to my self in a sing-songy voice 'Everything disgusts me', perhaps we're on to something...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I usually tell myself that nothing happened, at least I have no recollection of anything 'bad' really happening to me at an early age to justify my issues. And I don't really think I have 'repressed memories', if that is even a thing. But then, so many of these symptoms are so fitting that I don't know what to make of it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And I don’t really think I have ‘repressed memories’

Funny, I said this exact same thing. Got pissed at the therapist, never went back to him.

Then it all came back.

Things don't stay buried.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I've tried really hard to 'remember', there's some stuff, but none seems bad enough. And the only thing that I could label as messed up happened when I was like 9 and an isolated case so it seems like an outlier.

My only guess is that whatever happened, assuming it did, was so early that my memories are both fuzzy and pre-verbal so I literally couldn't put words into them and are more like vague feelings.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Can't force the memory to resurface. It comes when you're ready for it, not before (i.e. when you're not running from it anymore). Took a lot of effort, therapy, and breakthroughs... Then, when I least expected it, several memory triggers hitting all at once and BAM. All came back like lightning. Every detail, like it happened yesterday.