Question:
This post is been sent twice, I posted it in the wrong spot last time…so here it is again…. Hi to all, I am not new to the diagnoses of PTSD, however I am new to this group. I found I was reading some of the replies to the latest new person here on the board..netnetnet…and unfortunately found that all of you experience a great deal of my symptoms and feelings, or I would say I experience a lot of what you guys post. It took 12 yrs of therapy and finding the correct therapist (psychiatrist) to finally tell me that all those symptoms I had put together were called PTSD. Now I can look at each one individually for what it is an where it came from and work on it 3 fold (emotionally, mentally physically). I would like to quote netstone here: ————————- I am working at claiming that person whose been waiting to get out from underneath this depressed nothinglessness, apathy, feelings that nothing is fun or ever will be again…feeling that writing a check is a major production, going to the store is celebratory, cooking is like conducting World War II single handedly, and that eradicating clutter is beyond my level of ability. Yet, I do still find a lot of humor in our predictament. I laugh at myself a lot, ——————————— When I read this I thought to myself that this was me. I identified with the going along as usual and then all of a sudden crash. That happen to me this fall, now I am on a medical leave of absence from full time study. This was my last yr of school then of to nursing I would go. However I could not do anything, read, write papers or anything like that. I figured it would be better to take the time now to help myself before I get out in the world to help others (by the way I am an older student). I would like to thank all the replies and posts that I have been able to read so far. I seem to identify very much with many of you and feel like I fit in. Thanks for reading and sharing. CUB
Response:
Welcome aboard! I’m kinda new here myself, except that I think I came here or to a depression ng years ago, but found it depressing then. I hope I can share hope to those who suffer. I still suffer too, but I think more like the general population. It passes. I used to get stuck!
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