New with a Question. - Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Message Board

greenstarz · 07-07-2006, 02:27 PM

Hi all.

this is my first time here so if i am posting this in the wrong place, i apologize.

i am 24years old and have been diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder for about 5 years. I don't remember hardly anything from my childhood and only a little more from my adolescence. I've known that I experienced abuse in childhood and adolescence, but i am just now starting to get my memories back and it is happening very slowly. I've had symptoms of PTSD for as long as I can remember \, but no abuse memories. now that i'm getting the memories back, the symptoms are getting a lot worse. i've don't know how to bring up PTSD with my therapist or psychiatrist. i don't know why i'm so scared to bring it up with them. i'm so scared of people getting mad i guess.

does anyone know how i can do this? they are kind people but i am just scared.

any help would be appreciated.

thanks
ali

StephanieAnne · 07-08-2006, 07:26 PM

Ali

That was me I didn't want people getting mad at me

all the time, so I wouldn't say anything which got me no where

The memories stay buried and then they want out, and maybe that is what you are feeling now, the memories coming to the surface, your body wants you to straighten all this out which is why is it now happening

Tell your therapist and your Psych they need to know and you ask them if they can help you straighten this out and if they can't, ask them for a name of a PTSD therapist, because they are trained to handle all of your trauma and help you make sense of it.

I suffered from PTSD for 30 years and never knew that there was name for the life I had been living, also depression and maybe a little bipolar/manic
but after going thru therapy, I now live this great normal life, living like everyone else and not worrying about everyone and only worrying about me.

OK so back to this getting people mad, why would they get mad? they are your dr's they want what is best for you, they have to know that these feelings are coming up, always be honest with a dr no matter what, they are there to help you, what you say is confidential, no one is going to say that you are not having these feelings, because you know you are having these feelings

Go for it, change your life

galinaqt · 07-17-2006, 09:27 AM

I was trying to get help from therapists and I believe I am having ptsd. Two people I had were mad at me and judjumental and taking there bad moods and personnal problems on me and you name it. Anyway they make matters worse. If somebody wants to go for it he/she should be very careful who to choose and read about counceling so they can see red flags.