Definitely you need help to overcome your past. Until then it's hard to know what part of your suffering is OCD and what part is post traumatic stress disorder.
Definitely do seek help. And if you don't like your shrink then find another one.
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Maxine
OCD about past traumas
I can completely relate! I have been stuck in the victim state lately.."Why me? Why me??" Its really hard to move forward and "get over it" when you have a really messed up, tragic child hood and now have severe anxiety because of it. I always wonder and obsess about what I would be like if I didnt go through that.
My younger brother was murdered in March and I find myself back at this forum seeking a thread I can relate to and perhaps find some comfort. It took me about a minute to find this one. I've suffered from deppression officially for 13 years. No trigger that I can recall at that time. But my older brother was a police officer killed in the line of duty in 2001, which triggered a major bout, and now my younger brother who was a loan officer, was killed as he walked home from his birthday party. I find myself thinking why my parents, why me all the time now. I'm trying not to sink back into a deep depression, and think I'm losing the battle. I'm going to keep fighting though and hope we all can do the same.
Greetings one and all. This is an update on my life thus far. Since graduating the the program program some years ago, I've gone through a Wellness Program of 10 weeks long. That's helped me realize how badly my diet was and helped me to fix it.One of the steps to fix was to stop drinking so many soda a day, like 5 to ten a day. Now I've lost 30 lbs. and I'm down from a 38 waist to 32.
As far as my Small Business is doing I've recently gone through a Business Planning Class which has allowed me to create a business plan on one of my idea's called WED-TOONS With these I can capture the images of any future newlywed couple in a fantasy SNAP-SHOT graphically and then once laminated it can then be placed on the summit of their wedding cake and exposed to their entourage at their reception party. So as far as those of you out there coming up with every excuse under the sun telling yourselves that this program won't change you for the better.
I say HA! This program has litterally given me back my life for the better or better yet it has given me a CHANCE FOR A BETTER LIFE! Oh, me and some friends of mine are hopefully going to set up a website to show off some more of my art like my incredible comic strip of MADAME X INCORPORATED]. So once this is completed I'll be sure to pass on the link to all of you.
So to conclude. Once more the the program has proformed miracles in my life and given the chance at living a decent and wholesome life and I believe it could do the same for all of you.
Oh, and this December 1st I'm turning 52 and I just LOVE MY LIFE AND WHERE IT'S GOING NOW!!!So just know that whatever your suffering with they're those of us whose gone through the program that had them too. Notice I said "HAD".
Thanx you The Mid-West Center SSSooooo much.
As far as my Small Business is doing I've recently gone through a Business Planning Class which has allowed me to create a business plan on one of my idea's called WED-TOONS With these I can capture the images of any future newlywed couple in a fantasy SNAP-SHOT graphically and then once laminated it can then be placed on the summit of their wedding cake and exposed to their entourage at their reception party. So as far as those of you out there coming up with every excuse under the sun telling yourselves that this program won't change you for the better.
I say HA! This program has litterally given me back my life for the better or better yet it has given me a CHANCE FOR A BETTER LIFE! Oh, me and some friends of mine are hopefully going to set up a website to show off some more of my art like my incredible comic strip of MADAME X INCORPORATED]. So once this is completed I'll be sure to pass on the link to all of you.
So to conclude. Once more the the program has proformed miracles in my life and given the chance at living a decent and wholesome life and I believe it could do the same for all of you.
Oh, and this December 1st I'm turning 52 and I just LOVE MY LIFE AND WHERE IT'S GOING NOW!!!So just know that whatever your suffering with they're those of us whose gone through the program that had them too. Notice I said "HAD".
Thanx you The Mid-West Center SSSooooo much.
You know this last year I lost my very best friend who I knew for many years. And truly I thought his death was going to be the start of my depression and the end of our career too. But I remembered what he told me the day he set out on his quest to go help his mom and dad. He said "Remember james this is going to be our year that somebody out there is going to discover us!" You see we've been working on his cartoon character of Shmaltz of his for over 15 years and we just wanted to get a break. So now that Alan is gone, I find myself being driven to make his last words a reality. That this is the year we're going to make it! Thanx Alan I will never forget you ever! So I know we can't have back what we once had but his memories are now what burns deep in my soul! Remember I say the good not the bad.
Peace.
Thanx
That's a life and death lessons we all have to face in our time.
Peace.
Thanx
That's a life and death lessons we all have to face in our time.
Started after graduation from College. Became consuming to the point of sitting for hours on end repeatedly going over the same thoughts. In a work environment it was difficult to carry out duties when your mind is swirling with obsessive thoughts that I was powerless to stop. I feel cheated out of a normal life in that any potential I might have possessed to achieve was spent instead obsessing over incosequntial matters. Friendships were hard to form and I have never experienced being in the moment with an uncluttered head free to experience joy and just being
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