14-07-2025 05:55 PM
14-07-2025 05:55 PM
@Sparky79 I don’t forget anything I’ve watched or read.
Mundane day to day stuff - awful 🤦🏼♀️
14-07-2025 06:02 PM - edited 14-07-2025 06:02 PM
14-07-2025 06:02 PM - edited 14-07-2025 06:02 PM
@Glisten Oh my memory is so stuffed up, if I'm trying to focus I get confused, when I was younger I'd forget what hand I wrote with or which arm I'd wear a watch on. Heck I've been doing the same mantra after my meditation for 6 months now and if I focus on what I'm saying I'll stuff it up! it's frustrating AF! it seems as though the PTSD has made it worse though.
14-07-2025 09:45 PM
14-07-2025 09:45 PM
@Sparky79 you have unmediated ADHD + dyslexia. Maybe anxiety?
+ PTSD = totally crippling
How are you going to tackle this?
14-07-2025 09:53 PM - edited 14-07-2025 10:05 PM
14-07-2025 09:53 PM - edited 14-07-2025 10:05 PM
@Glisten lose myself in my anxiety and depression perhaps? (That's all diagnosed as part of my workplace trauma). I don't want medication, my gp and clinical psych think I'm taking my antidepressants, but I haven't taken them in almost a year, due to the side effects, plus they only took the edge off the emotions and the effects of the trauma (disclaimer, I do not recommend others do this and this is my personal experience, please follow all directions given by medical professionals and don't be a stubborn person like me). I see the ADHD as a positive because it allows me to think out of the square rapidly, the dyslexia I live with and just try to focus when I'm tackling something I know I could easily stuff up, such as measuring things (I'll usually write it down and double or triple measure to be sure). I suppose I cracked it a year ago when I found out my GP has been mistreating me for my workplace mental injury, and hadn't actually read any of my reports and just had been continuing off of what I could remember from the IME's (Independent Medical Evaluations) done by the workcover psychiatrists. I mean I was on the same meds for 2 years and had been seeing a psychologist weekly, instead of a clinical psychologist. Plus I was supposed to have seen my own psychiatrist from the beginning, but I wasn't referred until I found all this out and cracked it. so far I've been rejected by one, the second has referred all his clients elsewhere due to bad health, so now I'm awaiting the results of a third referral today, in a suburb where the sun is too scared to shine for fear of it being stolen.
14-07-2025 10:00 PM
14-07-2025 10:00 PM
There you go @Sparky79 You are managing your systems. You know PTSD exacerbates your symptoms. But you are working through it.
great job, champ 👍🏼
14-07-2025 10:02 PM
14-07-2025 10:02 PM
awww thanks @Glisten I am appreciative of your kind words, one does adjust to their quirks given time.
15-07-2025 08:31 AM
15-07-2025 08:31 AM
@Sparky79 I’m not being kind. I’m stating facts.
There are no fast fixes. It takes time.
The most important thing is feeling safe. Feeling safe gives you good quality sleep and let the nightmares come.
15-07-2025 09:41 AM
15-07-2025 09:41 AM
@Glisten honestly any words that aren't the usual criticism that I've received in the past from family and peers I see as kind words.
15-07-2025 10:33 AM
15-07-2025 10:33 AM
@Sparky79 family scapegoat? You wouldn’t believe how common it is.
Total strangers can sniff out your vulnerability and you become a target 🎯 for their own anxiety, fear and anger.
There is nothing worse than being an observant, sensory genius and dumbass people set out to destroy qualities that they don’t understand or see as a threat.
I you get programmed/brainwashed into abandoning yourself. I’ve lived mate. Coming out the other side is massive daily change. Overwriting neural pathways takes enormous energy. Totally worth it. 💯
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