Loneliness, anxiety and depression also PTSD

[carolk1955]

I suffer from anxiety, depression, PTSD and also loneliness. I have been in individual therapy for a very long time. I was in group therapy but that is not available in my community. Lately PTSD has been an issue for me and I have a lack of people to get support from from that. There are so many things I used to enjoy doing and can't any more. I am widowed, have no family or friends and am disabled. I wish I could make social connections, make some friends again, but that is hard to do at age 67. I am really hurting right now and there doesn't seem to be an end in sight. I want so much to feel part of a group, a community, people I can relate to and talk to without fear. I need this in my life. I welcome any suggestions and support from this group.

[ZooCrew]

Hey Carol,

OMG We are in the same boat. I felt like I was reading something I could have written about myself. I to suffer daily from anxiety, depression, PTSD and also the loss of my intire family due to the event that started my downward spiral. I to used to GO GO GO could never just sit still had to be hiking, boating, traveling or something. Now I sturggle to leave my house without getting physically sick.I have been looking for a non military PTSD group for three years and still haven't found one. I'm so sorry you are going through this to but its nice to know I'm not alone. I am also 55 and disabled and would like to keep intouch.

Thanks CJ

[NatureBoy]

I can relate, Carol. I went through a number of traumatic incidents as a kid that I thought I had done a lot of healing from until my recent divorce. It opened up a lot of the same wounds that I had spent so much time working on and I feel like I'm back in that same place I was 20 years ago. I live alone in a rural town that's nearly an hour drive from everyone and everything I used to know. I feel like a ghost here and no one can see or hear me.