Good morning

[Voice]

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.

[Hope67]

Hi Voice,
Welcome.   

I'm glad you found your way here, and hope that you'll find it to be a supportive place. 

Hope

[Chart]

Hello Voice, welcome to the forum.

[Voice]

Thank you Hope & thank you Chart

[Blueberry]

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.

[Voice]

Thank you Blueberry