Hello everyone,
Possibly, like many of you when typing your first ever Forum communication, I am staring at a blank 'page' & a blinking cursor wondering where to start.
I am not a young person nor am I an old person but I am old enough to have realised something was 'wrong' & took advice to go to therapy over 30 years ago.
Since then I have seen psychiatrists through my countries mental health system, paid privately to travel to my countries capital to see a clinical psychologist & had a number of different approaches to therapy from various private therapists.
Yet I've continued to struggle. I don't know how to articulate succinctly how I ended up here on this forum but what I can say is I am currently experiencing what, until this moment as I try to communicate with you, I would have described as new or different very difficult & isolating experiences in my life but just now as I think about CPTSD I realise they are just 'more of the same'.
I can say more if & when it's appropriate but I reached out to a charity that offered an opportunity to talk about 'abuse in a faith context' & for the first time ever it was suggested to me that I had 'complex trauma' & how the whole central nervous system can become de regulated & needs to be re regulated. As I've researched the subject the issue of 'connection' & often the lack of it for CPTSD survivors has often come up. As I relate to that I am thinking about how to address it. I googled it (of course) & here I am.
Hi Voice,
Welcome. :heythere:
I'm glad you found your way here, and hope that you'll find it to be a supportive place.
Hope
Hello Voice, welcome to the forum.
Thank you Hope & thank you Chart
Hi Voice,
Welcome to the forum! It's a good supportive place and there's a lot of information around too, to help figure out this thing called cptsd.
Some of us have been in therapy for decades too unfortunately, you're not alone there.
Thank you Blueberry