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So, after 6 years I have had another seizure, which meant calling work and saying I could not come in due to a seizure. I the went to a doctor with my partner and told him I had PTSD, I had a psychogenic none epileptic seizure, he immediately had a go at for using the term seizure because if...

So, I've recently been in hospital, I've had chronic throat problems over the last three months and my throat swelled up so badly I couldn't breathe or talk. The thing is, I had panic attacks when at the hospital and I have to say that people in the medical profession seem to have no idea how...

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It's escalating now, my therapist called me this morning and said that I didn't fit the criteria to have EMDR on the NHS. I'm going to talk with her boss today, but I can't believe how much of a fight it is to get the right treatment. At the moment I would say the PTSD is coming second to the...

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Thank you all for your support. I'm afraid private is not an option, I lost my last job due to PTSD, keep crying at interviews, and not allowed benefits, until something gets better I can't find work, but I can't get better until I get work ( can't even afford prescriptions at the moment). And...

Hi Cactus Annie, EMDR is a PTSD therapy I've had before, it doesn't work immediately, in my experience the symptoms get worse for a few weeks and then there's a break through, when I've worked on a trauma with it before there was a substantial long lasting effect, it is very tough in the first...

I know Bristol,1485, it is awful. The system is failing. Though I have to say, I do find exercise is good at getting me out my mind and into my body, but lots of days, that's really difficult. But still for that to be the only thing a GP suggests, that's ridiculous.

I'm in the UK, so when I started to feel the old symptoms of PTSD I made an appointment for counselling, and waited four months to hear back. Of course, within that four months I had lost my job and income, and my relationships were strained. I went for an assessment, they decided that I needed...

I've had a really bad run with jobs these last few years, two out of three ending due to my PTSD. I'm now starting a job working as a part time pot wash, I start today but I'm worried I can't even handle this... I also feel really brought down, I'm intelligent, have a degree, and when it comes...

I feel like I want to add a postscript to this, We've been together four months now. Our sex life is healthy, I only had a mini panic attack once. We are very happy and comfortable with each other and are about to leave for our first holiday together.

So, breifly, I developed PTSD after being raped by three men. I managed for a few years with just anxiety but then started having flashbacks when around my line manager as he seemed to have some kind of simularity to one of my rapists. I was placed under a different line manager and was working...

So, EMDR worked brilliantly for me. The main affects being that I have been able to have sex and that I don't have panic attacks when people touch me. I have been dealing with a lot of more anger than I've ever experienced. I've been taking a two minute break from therapy to 'recover' as it was...

I have bad reactions to estrogen so a progesterone only pill is the only option.