Just joined... scared!!

[LickeyEndBlues]

Hi Mumtoone

Welcome to this fantastic site. You will find lots of support in here along with advice, help and friendly banter.

I have ben using it now for a couple of months and feel it really helps me.

Take care

Iain

What's so funny about peace, love and understanding?

[ruthb1]

hi rebecca,


you are not alone on this site, we have all been through similar experiences or can relate to certain things that you are saying.

this site will definatly help you, i too live with a control freak so i know whats its like..

take care

ruth x

[trac67]

Hi,

Welcome to the forum, you will get a lot of good advice here and make some new friends.

take care

Trac xx

'Live your life with arms wide open, today is where your book begins, the rest is still unwritten'

[bjaques]

Hi Rebecca,

Hope all goes well with the Doc's, you have made a great fist step!

Ben

[mumtoone]

thanks ben .... and ellen and trac and all the others ...

i'm a bit worried she wil think its all in my head and i'm making it up ..!

[Jim_P]

<b id="quote">quote:</b id="quote"><table border="0" id="quote"><tr id="quote"><td class="quote" id="quote">I was in a violent relationship fromt he age of 16 - 21 during that time i developed health anxiety and agoraphobia</td id="quote"></tr id="quote"></table id="quote">

Probably a lot of research out there on this subject, though if there isn't (doubtful) I firmly believe that growing up around violence causes agoraphobia and anxiety state. It seems to have in my case. And I see you mention violence as a possible cause in your post mumtoone.

The real scary thing about all this stuff (depression, PTSD) is that it's all very insidious and crafty - somehow, after years of it, you convince yourself that this is your lifestyle and you go alone living that way without realising you're just falling deeper and deeper into a black hole. One day you wake up and ten years have passed and you've lived half your life away like this and then you get real scared. I'm in my thirties and for the last fifteen years I've hardly been out the house, I don't have any friends, I haven't had a relationship in ten years, and I feel as if I don't exist or that I'm dissapearing. The only connection I have to society is through my psychotherapist and my family, which thankfully is large and supportive.

Written out like that, you think well that's just crazy. But like someone said on this thread in an earlier post, going insane is easy. I wish sometimes I would go insane and then I'd really escape from it. Going insane is an escape routine. But no, because we don't go nuts, we suffer more.

[nomorepanic]

Hi Mum

Welcome aboard and lovely to see you here.

Hope we can be of some help to you.

Nicola

People will forget what you said
People will forget what you did
But people will never forget how you made them feel