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Blaiggerty

Updated 11mo ago

Overcoming Trauma and Building Relationship Trust

Hello. I'm brand new here and giving this app a whirl. I have been diagnosed with both ADHD-Combo Type and complex-PTSD. I began a new relationship with someone last August 2021 after being in a 12-year intense Narcissistic relationship that ended with me feeling "feral", the best word I can describe it. My current relationship is so much more wholesome than I honestly ever have been; however, it has also made me realize how much emotional baggage, wounds, and trauma my past relationships have done to me, specifically my most recent 12-year one. I have found I have such a lack of trust in just about anything. Past trauma, I have found, has done quite a lot of damage to me with trust and in feeling extremely insecure. I am fighting so very hard not to allow this damage to effect my present relationship. My medication alone does not seem to be helping. What alternative treatments has anyone used that has helped them significantly in similar situations?

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Journie

2y

What PTSD meds are you taking? I have PTSD as well but have no meds for it.
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Blaiggerty

2y

I've been prescribed 20 mg Lexapro and 20 mg Abilify.
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Blaiggerty

2y

I also take 30 mg Adderall Extended Release 1x/day and 20 mg Adderall (fast-acting) 1x/ day for my ADHD.
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Journie

2y

I would like to suggest something to my doctor.
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Prismatic

2y

Complex trauma is usually treated with therapy, not with medication alone. It might be helpful for you to see a therapist/counselor to help work through what you're describing.
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Blaiggerty

2y

I am also in therapy. I am currently working with my counselor on Integrative Lifespan therapy, working through my timeline to accept things I had no control of and give myself grace. However, we have just started.
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Corgi.mom.94

2y

EMDR and IFS therapies have helped with my CPTSD. I take Concerta/Ritalin for ADHD and other meds for bipolar
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Blaiggerty

2y

What is IFS therapy?
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jezabelle

2y

I'm just coming out of a 17-year marriage extremely abusive extremely tramati.
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jezabelle

2y

Tramatic. I'm getting ready to leave my town I have no idea where I'm going I'm scared to death
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jezabelle

2y

🙏 I've had PTSD undiagnosed for years ever since I was raped when I was 17 after that it was just abuse and more abuse and more abuse I'm just looking for a way to cope better with the things that just keep happening to me I'm not sure if my picker is broken or what but I seem to be pretty strong mentally on the outside anyway on the inside I'm screaming and just absolutely dying

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