Banish the memories

[Forget-me-not]

Wish I had dumbledoors pensive and wand to take the memories and visions out of my head and hopefully the feelings will disappear too. I don’t think I can take much more of this Groundhog Day in my head 🙁

[Serenity]

It takes bravery to face your feelings head on.

Some people who are hurt by others might self-medicate by rushing into other relationships ( and repeating old patterns, taking their anger out on the new partner, etc) and it’s easy to also self/medicate through alcohol, comfort eating, etc.

By working through your feelings with lots of support, and taking extreme care of yourself, you will slowly rise, I promise. X

[Lisa]

Hi N.Y.X.3,

Thank you for your post and welcome to the forum, I hope you find it a helpful place to be. Whenever you feel able to you can use this forum to get your thoughts out, I’m sure you would find that there’s lots of survivors here who can understand and who can offer support.

You could also consider contacting your local domestic abuse service, to ask if you can access some counselling; I understand this can be a daunting prospect, but it can be extremely helpful.

Kind Regards and keep posting,

Lisa

[Forget-me-not]

Thank you Serenity and Lisa
I’m in touch with the local dv centre, under counselling for the second time, got the wellbeing service and homestart involved. So have found somewhere the strength to do that, but so exhausted.

[Peaceful Pig]

I’m glad you have support in place. Counselling is tough going and exhausting but having come out the other side I agree with serenity that facing your feelings is the only safe way out. Keep on going, you will get a point where the memories are much less intrusive and vivid. They make more sense to you so they stop going round and in your mind searching for meaning. Take really good care of yourself xx

[Forget-me-not]

Thank you peaceful pig.
My counsellor said that I’m displaying signs of ptsd too, so went to the Drs and been referred now for a ptsd diagnosis, frightening, but I need to be better for me and my children xx

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