the table is set - Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Message Board

ICC · 01-31-2007, 04:40 AM

Good morning all--- the table is set and ready. feel free to bring whatever you want to it and it will be shared by all. Some have been at this table many times and others only a few. We have some that lurk right outside the door but never sit at the table. A few have left and not returned, a few needed a couple of days off and some i guess will always be late for dinner. It appears that though there has been some upheavel and lots of discomfort here lately that most are back and ready to sit at the table. There is plenty of room and all are welcome so please, please sit at the table whether you need something from it or have something to put on it.

Peace and Prayers to my friends ,
ICC

isitme · 01-31-2007, 06:28 AM

You may wish you hadn't posted this last thread

I'll bend any ones ear. maybe just have a good old moan.
ANXIETY!!!!!!!!
Here I am - still stuck. Life is actually great - bar this problem. No depression, no numbness, no guilt, no sadness, no suicidal thoughts
AND NO SISTER. Yes, I know I said I wouldn't mention her, but to be honest, I really thought she would have come up with an apology by now. I hear what you say sid, face the fear, but I/we are at stalemate, neither of us 'giving in'. I am hovering to the point of phoning/texting her, but all I can see is her 'being mightier than thou', then I immediately think forget it.
still stuck and frustrated..................

ICC · 01-31-2007, 06:50 AM

Isitme---- that's where i was with my mother. a stalemate. I wasn't putting up with her crap anymore and she wanted nothing to do with me unless i did. I walked away. Did she win? ANXIETY!!!! is something i have suffered from for 30 years. when i have an attack i really try to walk my way through it. sometimes i can and sometimes i can't . depends on the circumstances. I do take something on occassion if it's too bad. It's ahrd to figure out what set it off. A few times I have been in a counseling session and my counselor asked if I had just become anxious. she saw it immediately and we went back to what we were talking about and what could have brought it on. I am not real good at doing this myslef but have been successful a couple of times.

Hugs,
ICC

Phoenix · 01-31-2007, 07:33 AM

Dear ICY and isitme,

I will bring my body to the table, as I am sure the rest will follow

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Anxiety; hmmmmm...........

Sounds like a starting point to me.

Pardon me, I need to be excused at this time due to a prior engagement.

Please keep my plate warm until I return

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Take care
God Bless
FTM

isitme · 01-31-2007, 08:03 AM

If it were a plane that was the problem, I understand the steps, the process. (By the way, I am scared of flying, so have avoided them at all costs).
Now I have done the same thing with sis - avoidance.
I am happy to avoid planes, it doesn't stress me out or cause anxiety!
But sis does.

I can't see a path at all. Maybe I have been too over sensitive? What so you reckon?
She said - I'm to blame for the way my son is. To me, that is like me saying - our parents are to blame for her infertility. In my eyes no one is to blame, it just is. I know anger and blame lurks for a long time before someone accepts (whatever it is they have to accept).
I'll carry on thinking......