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I never wanted to go back and yet here I am. It’s been about six weeks since everything seemed to fall apart and in those six weeks, I’ve slowly been trying to piece my world…myself…back together again and all it took was a couple of pictures and I’m on the floor, curled up, crying all over again.<\/p>\n

PTSD can be a bitch like that. All it takes is one little thing and suddenly you’re reliving everything all over again. I thought I was getting better. Sure, there were rough moments, but I’d kept going. I’d fought. Even in the worst of it, he told me that I would get back up again and go on kicking ass like I always did.<\/p>\n

I’d been trying to condition myself for things that might come…things that might hurt…things that might trigger, but I didn’t expect them to come the way they did. I didn’t prepare myself. I have this cold spot. It’s right in the middle of my chest. If you touch it, the skin is actually colder there. It’s as if seeing what I did sent an ice arrow right through me and it’s so cold that it burns. It’d been weeks since that had happened. I was stronger. I was ready to move on.<\/p>\n

Now, it’s as if everything just happened. I want to hide. I cry. I sob. I pant trying to stop myself from hyperventilating. My skin feels like there’s something crawling and I have to fight not to scratch. Every single awful thing keeps running through my head like a movie reel. I stare at my screen…at pictures of friends…and I whisper help me, someone please help me. Take me from this hell…but they can’t hear me. I’m alone in this awful place.<\/p>\n

Why do I write this? I write this to save myself. Maybe if I share this with the world then maybe there’s a chance I can survive this. Maybe I can tap more into the anger that’s deep inside of me…anger at myself for giving anyone this kind of control in my life and anger with him for letting his cowardice lead to cruelty. The fact that it’s in there means there’s hope. I’m not totally lost to this. Maybe if I share this, someone else will realize that they’re not alone when it happens to them.<\/p>\n

So what’s next for me? I don’t rightly know. More and more I’m starting to think that therapy is something I should seek. There’s also the voice of someone I love in my head telling me to fight, not to hide…I don’t know what I’m going to do. Hiding keeps me safe from the world and the scary things in it. Nobody can hurt me if I don’t open myself up to them. \u00a0I feel as if I don’t really have anyone that I can talk to about this. The platitudes don’t help a lot though the thought behind them is appreciated. Those who try to intellectualize this just make it worse. My support network has gone eerily quiet, even when I’ve tried to reach out. I don’t judge. I know life gets busy and that there’s not always the time for things like this.<\/p>\n

For today, I’ll make some lunch…and wish that I weren’t always the one reaching out to those I love…and maybe let the cat have her way in her desires to sit on me.<\/p>\n

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