Traumatic Experiences Community Daily Forum Checkin - Monday 27th March 2017
Hello you lovely people out there! yes you! dont go looking over your shoulder wondering if Im talking about LOL How have you been? Whats happening in your world?
Healing from traumatic experiences is one of self discovery and personal self growth, where you can rediscover who you are, and grow into that strong survivor that you are. Sometimes you may even question why you are bothering, is it worth it. YES, it is! Because your worth it. This space is yours, to share whats happening in your world, to say Hi, to let us know if you need some extra support, to share the good days, bad days and inbetween days. This is a safe and supportive daily checkin space for our members. Remember to be kind to yourselves, and take some time out for you if needed.
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Everything feels a bit raw today. Looking forward to the day being over :(
@fearlessPapaya5168 Hi Papaya, am sorry the day is feeling raw for you. Is there anything you could do to perhaps make it less raw? Perhaps try to occupy yourself with something to take your mind off of whatever is bothering you. Distractions can help sometimes.
@fearlessPapaya5168
Hi Papaya, sorry to hear it is a raw day. I do hope it will get better and you will find some peace. I'm so glad you shared today.
@fearlessPapaya5168 One day at a time. You got this.
I was very sleepy today in school, but it's the fourth quarter so just one more!! I also have trauma treatment today, it's almost over, just a few sessions left! Lots of motivation to keep moving forward
@lavendermoonlight You have a few sessions of trauma treatment left or a few sessions at school? How have the trauma treatments been going for you Lavender? Have you felt any benefits so far?
@dancingRainbow45 I only have a few sessions left a trauma treatment, I've been doing it for around a year. It has benefited me tremendously, I am dealing with my PTSD in a much healthier way
@lavendermoonlight
Hi lavender, so great to hear that you have the motivation to move forward. It sounds like you are quite busy with your schedule. How exciting to be doing well enough to be wrapping up trauma therapy. It's a great feeling for sure.
@KristenHR thank you very much Kristen ❤ I'm very excited 😊
@dancingRainbow45
I just want to share that I finally found a therapist near me who accepts my insurance & specializes in PTSD. He comes highly recommended by other professionals, and the staff at 3 different hospitals (where I was inpatient in the past 3 years) tried to set me up with this therapist, but I guess he didn't have openings at that time. I would have prefered a female, but sometimes God know what I truly need more than I do (because I haven't always clicked with female therapists either). I have my initial appt Wed., and I'm very ready to start seriously dealing with the traumatic events/experiences in my past so they lose their power to imprison me in the present & future. I know building a healthy, trusting relationship with a new therapist will take (much) time and patience...because I TRUST no one in this world (except my dogs), and I have been SO betrayed by former therapists, but I am willing to give someone new an opportunity to show me how to begin to trust again, communicate better, and have healthier relationships.
@caterpillargirl Good luck! I really hope your new therapist is nice and you can feel comfortable talking to him. I understand what you mean, I really really like my counselor but I'm also still really really nervous to sit alone with him!!! It's so hard! But I think we both can do it!!! I'll pray for you!!!
@KLM3278
Thank you so much for your support, encouragement, & most of all prayers.My faith has been tried, & fried by trials, but I am convinced that I only was able to get an appointment with this particular therapist because a woman at my church has been praying hard that God would open a door for me to get the help I desperately need. Other therapists I've seen in the past several yearshave quit on me...saying they can't help me. And, I've been discharged from inpatient care time and time again with NO follow up counseling set up/in place...only to flounder without any support. And, I do not have any friends, or any family...so it has been very hard. Some psychiatrists have stated that my Prognosis is very poor, and it's unlikely that any medication, or any therapist can help me. Whoa...that's a grim professional prediction, eh? But, even with the little, remaining faith in God I still hold tight to...I HAVE to believe that God did not bring me through ALL trauma & trials I've gone through in my life..only to leave me broken, hurt, and unable to trust, love, or function at a healthy, managable level. I truly have to keep believing there is something.. ANYthing more to life, and living than merely: pain, anger, isolation, and distrust. These four entities seem to have taken over who I once was, and become almost all of who I now am. And, as a Christian, those negaitive elements & emotions should not overtake my identity and personality...but they have. I have had multiple traumatic events/experiences in my life and I am SO overwhelmed by the impact they have had on my life, and my view of the world around me. I feel SO brutally damaged by these experiences and feel they have so severely deformed me (mentally, emotionally, spiritually, & relationally), that it is impossible for me to ever experience healing, or "recovery."
@caterpillargirl. Yay! I am glad you have found a couseller close by. 
I have had a good day, went to bible study at my church for the 1st time in a few weeks, I am glad I got to go, I almost didn't, issues with the older lady's daughter again, but once I got there, all else was forgotten, I even got a hug from one of the others that started attending recently,
@jr50 That's great!!!!