I am new here myself. Dealing with major PTSD. It has been one of those things that has been my secret demon taunting me since I was a child. Sadly it has reared it's head at some times during my teenage years and then again as an adult and now it seems to think we should be best friends. I disagree. But most of the time it wins. PTSD has been the mountain that has followed me around and crumbled right in front of my path. And now it has me stopped. While I thought I was making progress I am finding that it is very hard to make any sort of progress with this nightmare.

I'm just glad to find some sort of support. Because PTSD likes to rear its ugly head at the worst of times. 3 am wake up calls from horrific nightmares.

Hi and welcome
I moved your post onto its own thread as you are likely to get more replies now.
Sorry to hear of the PTSD struggles you are having.

We have a PTSD forum here but it is not nearly as active as our other PTSD forum on our main site, PsychCentral, which is geared more toward mental health while we are more neurology etc.
Here is the link to it (you will have to re-register there)
http://forums.psychcentral.com/forumdisplay.php?f=15

hope things get much better for you. I know that being able to talk to others at PC will be helpful as they have a great support network there.

Welcome to NeuroTalk. We're so glad you found us. I see Chemar has helped you out.

You will find many helpful, friendly, and caring people here.

Welcome bsubroncogirl,


PTSD is certainly a demon of many heads, it is like you could go on days thinking everything is alright then one noise, one comment, one familiar face, heck even a smell can possibly trigger you and it's like all those days, months or years that you thought you were ok are no longer real, you're back to square one and it's like you're living all of it all over it in your head.

I tried so hard for so many years to try to make sense out of my trauma, to understand, to heal but at some extent I realized I spent like 5 years stuck in a rut trying to explain something that simply does not have an explanation. I got a very rude wakening call - chronic pain -, and my life has changed once again forever. I can't physically get triggered because it puts me in the hospital, so I sort of try to concentrate on the things that I can do something about, like my health and my today so I can actually be certain I could have a tomorrow.

There is no magic trick to this and so far from what I can experience PTSD does not disappear, what changes is you and how resillient you become towards it. What I can promise you is that you do learn a lot from it, eventually you learn how to cope with the pain and how not let it become you. It is not easy, but it is real.

Welcome to Neuro Talk

Welcome to NT

Glad you found your way here. You are making progress

I'm a work in progress ! ! !

We all struggle. Some more than others. It just may be our cross to bear.

Hang in there. There is better for you if you'll just accept it. It is hard to, sometimes, for whatever reason you're holding on to.

I don't know in what form help will begin to kick in, or if it will, to a noticable appreciation that you can detect immediately.

I hope you can find some peace within.

Don't beat up on yourself too bad.

There's lots of good there, too.

Just look for it, ok?

I understand how you feel. It's hard for those around us and hard for us too. So, thank GOD there are support groups and things like this so we can reach out we have to stick together

Hello. I have PTSD. It can be very disruptive. For me, I have had nightmares for so long now, that I have actually gotten used to them to a certain extent. Most of the time, they don't even wake me up anymore.
I don't know if this helps, but know you are not alone.
Seren