I Am Fighting to Overcome Ptsd

This experience stopped me in my tracks.  I am decidedly not fighting to overcome Ptsd.  In fact, it was only a few weeks ago that I even realized that I might have, indeed, had Ptsd at the age of 15...

One of the hardest things to deal with when trying to overcome panic and anxiety is knowing what to do with all that excess energy. I know when I used to get my panic attacks it sometimes felt like I just wanted to jump right out of my...

I will not let these memories own me.
I am not an animal, regardless of how I have been treated and what I have gone though; I am a sovereign being, a human being with self-awareness and the powers of reason, with dignity and a right...

Unfortunately I have had PTSD since a young teenager. I am now in my mid 20's and going on year 10 of living with PTSD. I have gone through many phases of having long term PTSD. I went through a self medicate phase in the beginning...

I got PTSD from having to watch my boyfriend get stabbed and then bleed to death. At first it was just nightmares, making me scared to sleep which then led to depression. But I'm one of those people who are bubbly and doesn't want any...

Several years ago, I was in two fairly spectacular car accidents within two weeks of each other.  The first one actually involved my car flying off of a mountain an in to a flooding river; the second involved being at the mercy of...

Hi, this goes out to all those that are suffering from panic, fear and agoraphobia, I know some days can feel pretty low but hang in there, there is life after panic attacks. I suffered through occasional panic attacks that later...

i hate it. Flashback of him raping me them raping me blackout where i cant remember where i am flashback after flashback in class i have panic attack anixtey attack people staring at me like i'm crazy if only they knew that my wicked...

monday 5 september 2011
I found someone in this group today about whom I got enthused. I joined the group, I friended her and commented on one of her posts, wrote her a message... and only after all that did I notice that she hasn't...

I’m not what anyone would call emotionally stable, even three years after what can only be described as the worst night of my admittedly short life.
That night left me with PTSD, something I can best describe to those who ask as like...

Worker's Compensation was supposed to help the injured workers when they get injured on the job. Their is no fault determination, because the system is a no-fault system. Basically, a person can fall asleep in his chair and fall and...

Question:

Can u give me an advice?i love how u explained that to overcome anxiety,u shud rely on urself and not on others bcoz dependency will only make me feel hopeless and weak.I really wanna try to live again.I miss the old me so...

I'm afraid I just can't figure out how to use these websites. I'm so frustrated. I can see on the right that I must have written about the book "The Myth of Sanity" by Martha Stout, but I don't know where that post is located...

about 3 years ago i was almost killed. i had my hands bound behind my back and was brutally beaten by 10-12 "men",.... the attack lasted 4-6 minutes,.. although, yes.... it seemed like much longer.after i was bound and...

yes i have been a violant person for a long time...but just after two summer ago..i was diagnosed with ptsd...but i doen know what is causing it...i havent been able to go in to a hipno therapist...to help me remeber what heppend that...

I still have moments every few weeks when I want to give up but I push through it. I want to be stronger to handle whatever life will throw at me next. We don't just live happily ever after once we 'grow up' and settle down. Things go...

That is what my grandmother always told me, sometimes life is terrifying sometimes people do awful things but you cant give up you have to Face your dragons you CANT give up because if you do Your dragons will eat you alive and life...