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[quote=Anonymous]My ACE score is 8.

We had to move last year, even though we owned a beautiful house in Falls Church with a 2.5% interest mortgage on it, because my PTSD was set off daily by my neighbors (I have strange and unfortunately commonplace triggers). I spent most days feeling fear and rage, sometimes from 7:30 am on. I tried to avoid the triggers by wearing noise-cancelling headphones and not looking out the windows, but it didn't work (and I gave myself hearing loss that calls for hearing aids by blaring white noise into my ears as loud as it would go through the headphones almost daily for a couple of years straight).  Looking back I'm honestly surprised I lived through the past couple of years.

But it proves that you really can't escape your past. Or at least I can't. Things I heard and saw when little are harming me today in extreme ways and I can't think myself out of it. And yes, I've tried meds, therapy, emdr, ketamine infusions, you name it. I did everything I possibly could to stay in that house. But as my psychiatrist said, sometimes all you can do is get away from the triggers if you can.

PTSD is horrific. [/quote]

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