Living with PTSD (Potentially Triggering Material)

[Maggie]

@Former-Member I'm hearing you, and I think you are way toooo hard on yoooouuuu. Buuuut, I do the same to meeeee.

The pressure you are under is beyond being superwoman. Some days @Former-Member one small step for me is toooooo hard.

I can guarantee you put so much effort into hubbys care, energy levels left for you are depleted.

Maybe visiting today is this weeks goal, ticked and done. And well done.

[Zoe7]

@Former-Member I didn't see the original post on that other thread last night - sorry for that.

I think it is natural that you feel rattles - you are dealing with a lot Hon and it would make anyone feel rattled. Self-care is harder to achieve when there is so much going on for us - often the things that would really help seem so far away hey!

[Maggie]

@Former-Member

[Maggie]

Sitting with you @Former-Member

[Maggie]

@Former-Member Just realised the dogs I dropped off yesterday are wedding pics. O M G yesterday was obviously worse than I thought. S.  O.  R.  R.  Y. I should have stayed in my box!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

[Zoe7]

The dogs are still super cute though @Maggie 

Hi @Former-Member 

[Former-Member]

@Maggie.  Hey not a problem at all.  Like @Zoe7, I thought they were super cute, and didnt even think about the wedding side of things.  Thanks so much for thinking of me.  I love your little messages and pictures.  I read them all the time, even if I dont always respond immediately.

Sherry 

[Zoe7]

Even when I can't reply @Former-Member I am reading your posts here - I know you understand that sometimes it is too painful to respond - I do feel for you though Hon... a lot. Sometimes a like doesn't seem right but from now on take my likes as I am reading and hearing you 

[Former-Member]

Yep .. I understand @Zoe7.  Thank you.  

I know what you mean too about sometimes being reluctant to hit the "like" button for some posts.  I find that on other threads too.  It seems wrong to hit the like button when its talking about upsetting things, somebody's bad day or other negative things.  But the same as you, I also see it as a way to acknowledge a post and to let that person know that I'm listening and understand or sympathise.  So a 'like' is just fine by me.  

Sherry

[Former-Member]

PTSD is something i struggle with myself from deaths in my family that I was around when I was very very young including my grandmother who was a longterm caregiver.  I have found that writing about it is very helpful. Poetry I admire often comes from PTSD situations.