Post Traumatic Stress Disorder & Severe Anxiety...

Hi DrKatie,
How are you feeling today? I like how you became creative around sleeping better.

Thank you so much!! I hope you’re ok! My abused made me who I am. I like who I am, but I hurt at the same time. I tell people, all of my heartache God was there keeping my heart safe. I don’t know if your religious? I it sounds like your heart is safe too.♥️

Hi, I have opted along with other medical conditions attributed from the stress. I was born into a family of abusive parents. From there married at 16 am abusive man age 25. He was mentally, physically and sexually abusive. I started with him for 38 years. It's been 11 yrs since he was removed and charged from my life but as we know this type can not let go and has been charged after for stocking etc. God is my safe place, That's is where you can turn when there is nothing left, for .me he was always ..

Oh, THANK YOU SO MUCH. You are so right I do have great faith in GOD! I believe he kept my heart safe! And made me who I am today! Thank you for caring! I hope your New Year is full of Blessings!

Thank you for caring!!! I am so sorry to hear your story!! I know you went through so much I am so deeply sorry! ❤️.
Please if I could ask? Did it feel justified knowing he is paying for what he did! I myself don’t think being in jail is enough for him. He put you through a life time of hurt.
I am so horribly sorry for your pain too. But yes I believe in God deeply he is my rock along with my husband. I am Blessed !
Thank you!

I miss read your story he isn’t in jail, I sorry I ask!!! I feel for you deeply! I too can’t seem to get away from my families hold. I have even more of my story! Thank you for reaching out to me! I really appreciate it!!

I take medication for anxiety. It seems em to be working? Thank you !!!😊
I have a lot of medical issues too! My life is not easy. My sisters talk with my daughter all the time to the point where my Jessica doesn’t want anything to do with me! She won’t take a call or a text from me. I believe my sisters don’t believe I was abused at all, because dad included them in the abuse, and I never told anyone what dad would do, and they never cared about me. I was the looser the one everyone picked on. I looked at myself as the looser and that was my place in the family, I deserve what I got because I was fat a crybaby and I had the worst personality know wanted me! You know 1Pjf, and she will never amount to anything!! That me!! But I grew up, worked at a bank married a great guy!! I was kind of pretty? I didn’t know it and had know confidence!!! On the outside it looked like I was stuck-up. I really wasn’t!! My husband was great! My little sister marries a man that hates me, doesn’t talk to me, but is really mean, drinks does drugs and when there’s a family get together I am afraid he will start something! If I look the wrong way. One time my little girl was sick, I was talking to my husband about it. I was upset that every holiday she’s sick. I felt so bad for her!! Well my sisters husband thought I was talking about him??? And he stands up starts yelling and swearing at me a lot that I was talking about him behind his back! Everyone sided with him and we had to leave. It was like that all the time! My one daughter doesn’t want anything to do with me!! Because she believes them. It’s so horribly heartbreaking! And I just take it and take it! My mom’s husband just died in the obituary she lists her daughters, but doesn’t list me. But then list my kids as her grandchildren? She is 84 years old and still can’t let it go. It hurts and I just don’t understand why! It’s so hard now to move pass it because I am sick and if this is the end of my life, I never got to know my daughter!! I love her so very much. I SORRY I WANT ON AND ON!! I would love to talk with you love! Thank you for reaching out to me!!♥️

Thank you for the reply. This is in Canada ,he barely received a 3 yr sentence..this after abusive g not only myself but 3 of our children. He had multiple charges against him over a period of 38 yrs. He got out told everyone in our small town Lys. So his side became what was heard as I had an order to not speak of it. I have been thro which feels like never ending terror. Yes, God is my only refuge, gives me strength

It's so hard for me to deal with PTSD and a completemotional breakdown. My PTSD trig g ers change all the time and set me off. I feel like I'm about to breakdown at any time. Hopefully you wi be able to get meds right to help you. I'm here if you ever want to private msgg.

PTSD is such a huge and extremely hard subject! There can be similarities in triggers for many people, but each one of us is unique. God help us (seriously).

I never thought I would be diagnosed with PTSD, until I started spiraling down in burnout breakdown in the years around 2005. I became nearly non functional as a pastor, gradually becoming deeply depressed and suicidal. I finally listened to my doctor, who was telling me that I must retire before I killed myself. I was still 10 years from retirement, but I was in such a bad place that even I could see that it was time.

I was blessed with a loving childhood with 5 siblings, raised in a parsonage, always a safe place. It was safe except for being raised not to express any negative feelings. That area was neglected, though it wasn't intentional. My parents did better than their parents, who were very strict.

I hadn't connected the trauma I experienced as an adult with that style of child rearing until 2006, when I met with a psychiatrist for the first time. And I hadn't considered the possibility of PTSD. For me, it was the abusive and inconsiderate treatment I received from numerous bosses and other people that, combined with physical problems and depression, took me to the bottom of a deep dark hole. I don't know if I thought I deserved the abuse, but I tolerated it for 40 years. Big mistake!

I'm grateful for the great church that we attend, and for the assurances of God's loving care that I hear every Sunday from the pastors. Having healthy relationships, and having a healthy church are key to my being in as good a place as I am, along with a good marriage and the support of a therapist.

It's so sad when children are alienated from their parents. I can't pretend to know how awful that is, @1pjf. I will begin praying for the healing of that relationship. If you are comfortable, knowing your daughter's first name would help me pray.

I pray for each of us a year of greater peace as we move through the process of healing from all of the various trauma triggers. God does love us, for sure.

Jim