help me please my ptsd

[Zyalishawn]

for years I’ve suffered from ptsd, I haven’t worked on it yet have been to therapy just never invested in it. Now it’s effecting my family and I’m tired of it I just want to learn the tools to use to cope with it because my family deserves better

[AussieNeil Moderator]

Hi Zyalishawn and welcome to our community,

While you wait for other replies, there are two places in this community that you can browse through to learn from what others have shared.

1) In the Pinned Posts section; healthunlocked.com/healmypt... you'll find a number of helpful posts, in particular those beginning "Resources:".

2) Which tools work best varies, so you might find what members have shared of their experiences among the Topics section, which you can find either to the right on a desktop/laptop or below on a tablet/phone. The topics most likely to contain experiences are likely to be "Coping Strategies", "Recovery Tips", "Therapy Experiences", "Successes", "Resources", "Positive Self Talk", "Books - Recovery", "Tool Box", "Grounding techniques".

Feel free to ask further questions.

Neil

[Mamamichl]

Thank you for reaching out. One thing that helps is to list out your earlier signs of ptsd coming out, your triggers and coping strategies that help. For me, walking away helps when I’m triggered. I get triggered by my step kids anxiety symptom of “I’m sorry” repeatedly, and my partner is able to identify these moments that I’m triggered to help me do my coping/grounding strategies (5,4,3,2,1 method for one). Another idea is to get a service animal that deals with anxiety if you can afford one (we are talking like $4k).

It does make things harder when you take it out on your family. I did so for many years, and we have had to create a few things in place that my counselor helped me set up. Open communication with your partner about these strategies that the counselor suggests he’s been my saving grace. My partner has ptsd too and I look for his triggers and symptoms as well. My you get kid is 9 and she still doesn’t understand why dad stomps on the floor randomly.