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The other night I was awake almost the entire night having nightmares, night terrors, and panic attacks. I'm on Prazosin but it doesn't always work. I know it's because I started reading books about Narcissistic and Sociopathic abuse. I finally have vocabulary words, concepts, and an understanding of what I endured with family, ex-romantic partners, and even ex-friends. I'm a magnet for these kinds of people because I am an HSP and empath. I feel ...

someone please help me I am feeling depressed and alone and have been getting panic attacks because I just left a very abusive friend group and I feel like I have no one and I am scared that I will not be able to find a less abusive friend group that accepts me I am feeling soo scared and I am struggling to see any hope for my future

I have my mother to talk ...

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I was just curious about any responses I might get on a psych forum, my 1st post, from posting some of my struggles.

I basically had childhood trauma and neglect (divorce, alcohol, drugs, narcissism), and I wasn't really aware of how all the pieces made sense about how I got to where I am at, until I started to try to figure it out, with limited success. I am also realizing the need ...

Hello! Please tell me more about how this therapeutic technique helps to work with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). What are its main pros and cons?

I have a preliminary diagnosis based on screening interview and submitted written history of c-PTSD. Please advise if there is a better sub for this.

CSA as a toddler -- no memory of it, but fairly radical observed behaviour change -- much quieter, and extreme modesty. This was followed by emotional neglect until I left home. Dad was always a bit remote. After heart surgery when I was 14 he came home with only a ...

It's been 47 years since my trauma. I still have debilitating dreams. I have come to imagine the dreams as knotted up muscles in my brain, and the physical fear as painful gas bubbles buried deep beneath layers and layers of knotted up muscles (dreams). Once the gas bubbles begin to come through it may become too painful and the knotted up muscles push it back again. By controlling the dream the gas is released ...

I've been having so many terrible flashbacks (times of abuse) and flashfowards (imagining what will happen in the future). I feel like a little child though I'm really a youngish adult. I have schizophrenia and PTSD, and I keep hearing today, "you're a bad daughter, you're a bad daughter." It hurts so badly. Every little sound comes as a sign against me, every spoken word feels like pain that I caused. My mom used to ...

I live a state that swings between confusion and happiness. Though I work as a teacher and live a full adult life, due to my disability (schizophrenia), I stay with my mother, who abused me for years, especially as a teenager and young adult. Let me stress, she is currently one of the most lovely people you could know. She shows me genuine care as well as though around her. When she abused me, she ...

so, long story short, my trauma involves beds and being asleep, along with being in a house setting. though im sure other people also struggle with going to bed. the whole sitting in place, waiting to go to sleep thing, only leaves me open to think, and it usually spirals from there into flashbacks and intrusive memories that keep me up all night.
i've struggled with this for a long time and i find that ...

Sorry if this is a silly question. Is this the best forum/subforum to discuss cPTSD? Especially in the context of complex trauma rather than PTSD itself. If this is not, which one is?

to put the question in the bigger perspective, i just discovered that all my mental difficulties that are very difficult to classify (ADHD, BP, BPD, atypical depression, dysthymia, adjustment disorder, PTSD, anger management, anxiety, social phobia, emotional overeating, addictive personality, ASD, etc) ...