Guess it's my Turn :)

[Stormwolf]

Hi!

So after poking around OOTF for awhile, I found the link to here. Oh, where to start? (Also, going to put a trigger warning here- keeing it basic but I want to keep others safe.) I never really thought that my home life growing up was "bad," persay, and that everyone fights with their mother in a similar way. It wasn't until I started "going crazy" in my teen years that I had therapists stare at me and point-blank tell me, no, thats not normal, thats emotional and psychological abuse.  In the meantime, I had a psychiatrist misdiagnose me with bipolar disorder.

Cue 14 years of med trials with little to no help or some pretty bad side-effects, some pretty bad times in my life, abuse from "loving boyfriends," and severe bullying from grade school through graduation, and things were pretty rough for awhile. I moved several states away from my family (still love them, but my mother does NOT understand what she did was wrong- and is clingy, too.) and started seeing psychiatrist and therapist up here- after another couple of years they put it all together, and my "official" diagnoses include PTSD (therapist believes CPTSD, but won't make it official because there aren't enough guidelines yet), GAD, Depression NOS, Somatic Disorder. Fun times.

On my way to healing, though. Its rough- had some setbacks recently, which is what sent me looking around online. Anyway, I've rambled on for long enough. So, hi!

[flookadelic]

Hallo and welcome Stormwolf. I am fairly new here but have found it to be full of people like ourselves, traumatised and needing understanding, information, affirmation and support. I hope that you feel at home here and also get the same sense of understanding that I feel whenever I browse through the forum. It is lovely to have you on board!

[Rain]

Welcome Stormwolf! 

I'm glad you've added OOTS forum to your healing.   I look forward to your posts.

Grace and Healing in your Journey.