jessie357
jessie357
| Forum role | Member since | Last activity | Topics created | Replies created |
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| Member | Oct 7, 2010 (15 years) |
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Bio
In 2003, the traumatic birth of my second daugher, Jordan, triggered PTSD that stemmed from years of childhood sexual abuse. In an instant, my happy life completely disintegrated. I am so blessed to have a loving and supportive husband who somehow found the strength to stay with me during the early, destructive years with this disorder. He is a rock in my life. As the years fighting for my life went on, however, I became desperate to have my old self back. The happy, goofy, vibrant me that loved life and loved being active. I lost all of that with PTSD, but I am determined to have it again someday. I started this blog, Living With Backbone, because in my fight against PTSD, I have learned that getting better means making hard decisions every single day. It means doing things afraid. It means LIVING outside my comfort zone on a daily basis because with PTSD came agoraphobia. I can't tell you how hard it is to leave the house, but I do.
I have two children whom I adore, and I want them to have the best life imagineable. I vowed early on that I would somehow use my PTSD to impact their lives in a positive way, not bring them down. I vowed to teach them to fight when life got hard, and never give up.
This blog is about my fight to the finish, and my determination to come out in the end smiling - laughing even - with my hands in the air, hollering out to the world, "YES!! I MADE IT!!"
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