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I am looking for some internet friends that I can talk to about my ptsd and agoraphobia. I have been in a relationship for the past year and I honestly don't know how my boyfriend has stuck by me through all this. I want to be able to talk to someone with a partner and some one with...

I have had ptsd and agoraphobia now for 2 years. I'm 21 and I just want it to end. I am seeing a psychologist and I'm doing the exposure therapy again, hopefully this time it works, and soon I am seeing a psychiatrist. I want to know how many years did it take you beat yours fears and get rid...

Good to know I am not alone, and thanks for the feedback guys. I'm just going to try and keep myself busy on buses and trains, flying ill try later down the track :)

Thanks heaps for the replies guys, I guess its just a trial and error as everyone is different. I'm hoping after I see my psychiatrist he will put me on something to get my life on track. Goodluck to you all out there :) We can do this and beat this :)

Ive been having a lot of bad days lately. I feel as if I am in a deep deep hole that im never going to get out of. Everything is such an effort to and I just dont enjoy much in life anymore. What helps you get through your bad days and make everything seem like its all going to be okay. I'm...

I have had ptsd for two years now. I tried cymbalta made me sick for a week and I lost a lot of weight so my doctor put me on Pristiq. Pristiq did help quite a bit stopped the racing thoughts and in the end I was completely off valium, I could drive again, and I never experience attacks on it...

I am going exposure therapy, I am at the point where I can catch a bus ten minutes down the road, but I can't catch the bus back because it goes a longer way, so I am still trying to work my way around these fears. Thanks for the advice guys

Thanks for the help guys, you have made me feel a bit better about myself. I showed my boyfriend this post and we had a really good chat after. I know one day I'm going to get better, it's just those first few steps are the hardest, but I'm willing to give anything a go :)

I have severe ptsd and anxiety and my boyfriend doesn't. I feel bad cause he always wants to go do things but I'm to scared to leave the house or catch the bus to go do what he wants. I wish he could have met me before my ptsd things would be so different. I get sad he will never get to meet...

I have anxiety suffer panic attacks and ptsd as well as agoraphobia. My biggest fear is catching trains as I feel trapped on them and yes I can get off them but then I'm stuck in a place I'm not sure of and still have to find a way home or to where I was going. How do I beat my fear of being on...

Hi new to this site, I was in a serious car accident two years ago at a very young age. I couldn't walk for a year and almost lost my leg. I have had ptsd for two years now. I'm on meds and they are sort of helping, I'm trying the exposure therapy and still sort of helping. I feel as if I am...