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I appreciate your feedback. Thank you for taking the time to respond. I will continue to work with my therapist and doctors to figure this out and move forward. Again, thank you.

I'm working with my therapist and doctors. The therapist has encouraged me to share with my support people...my family... supposedly it helps with the healing process and helps my spouse in understanding what I'm going through. It seems to make things worse. Maybe I'm being over sensitive. I'm...

Just when I feel like I'm getting a handle on this...BAM, SMACK 😭... I've been feeling much better, a better headspace this last few weeks. Working with my therapist and doctors, really putting in the work. I can honestly say that I had never taken the time to think about the boxes I'd been...

I had a conversation with my therapist today and she explained to me that my brain has made its own "protective gear". Not her words but this is how I interpreted what she said. I thought I had a pretty good understanding of how my brain was stuck in Flight/fright/panic modes. She explained...

Honestly, I'm happy to have someone that understands what I've been dealing with. I was beginning to question my sanity. Not that I haven't been told by my doctors and therapist that this is typical and that I'm making progress...it just seems like it's never going to end!! Thank you for your...

Thank you! I have been trying to explain the "unboxing" of old memories to move forward to my family but I don't think they understand. I totally get that they can't understand, being that they have no experience with PTSD. I hope they never have a personal understanding of it! I get so...

My doctor prescribed a medication to help decrease dreams...not sure how much it helps. I'm sleeping but I wake feeling either scared or angry or a mixture of different emotions but having no idea what I was dreaming. So, mornings around my house can be overwhelming for my whole family! I...

Thank you for your advice and time. I too am far removed from the initial trauma...but that doesn't mean I ever escape it. For me these past 5 years, in particular, have been a rollercoaster of emotions, painful memories and confusion. I've been working towards closing these "boxes" in my...

Hi. I'm a 43 year old, mother of six. I've had PTSD since childhood, (before it was classified PTSD) due to sexual assault. It had been somewhat under control throughout the year's. Then I had a bad breakdown that triggered my lastest PTSD episode. It's been almost 2 years and I'm still being...

Thank you for your advice. I greatly appreciate it!

I have had night terrors, my family tells me that I'm sleepwalking and crying in my sleep. At one point I went to sleep in just a gown then woke up dressed in pants and top with a gown over top...no idea how or when I did that. My husband also said that I was driving at some point during the...

When someone comes up with an answer about whether a dream is a memory or just a night terror, please let me know! I keep telling my family and doctors that my dreams are so vivid that they seem like real memories. My family tells me that the dreams are not real but I don't think they're telling...