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J, I think you sound very strong and it is very sensible of you to have a plan of action should you see him. I guess we never really know what will happen if placed in such a situation. I try to imagine it myself and imagine how I could protect my family if anything ever happens. Hard to...

I remember after being kidnapped that I developed a kind of attachment to my abductor. Even though I was petrified of him cause he raped me often and tortured me, I still new my survival depended on that guy. It was like some weird bond took place and I got to know him as a person during those...

Hi Thunderhart, I am new to the forum as well. Glad you were able to come here and say hello. I found it hard to do because I am feeling lost and not too sure how to approach people these days. It can really feel long and unfriendly in a world where it seems you aren't too sure how to...

From what I can understand, it takes awhile to heal and each person has a different schedule. It does seem very slow which is actually a good thing since it takes awhile for a person to process trauma and learn new coping skills. As much as I would love for it to be so, there is no quick and...

I saught treatment originally after I experienced a bad year when I was 18 (parents divorce, lost my baby and almost died myself from illness, fiance died in car accident and two weeks after he died I was kidnapped, raped and tortured for 8 months with multiple attempts to escape kidnapper and...

Not sure if this helps, but I get nausea, irritable bowel and chest pains with the flashbacks. If the flashbacks are the real bad ones then I have incontinence with them at times. I think your system goes into overdrive. I believe it was explained to me years back that the body has a nervous...

Thanks for your post Vallie and can relate to a lot of what you were saying. PTSD is very much like a chronic illness. I have lupus which is a relapsing/remitting illness and is similar in that it hits you out of the blue, wrecks your life for awhile, pushes you farther from your goals. Then...

Thank you Onlybygrace (I like your name). For some reason this is just as intense as the actual trauma. Which is odd since my usual flashbacks from before weren't so strong. I was listed as having Complex PTSD in the past...don't know about now. I gather the "complex" part was from having...

Roj, I did the same thing years ago and am doing it now years later. It seems that there are these big blocks of memory that are too painful to remember and your body can't handle it, then at this point, you are ready to process them and they just flood out (like vallie000 said). After it was...

Hi RubyNicole, I am new here also. Not sure if this helps any, but I didn't remember my father raping me at 6 years old until I was kidnapped and raped when I was 18. Then flashbacks of my father started happening and I found out the truth. I also did hypnotic therapy to get to the rest of...

Hi, my name is Kristin and I am new to this site. I have had PTSD for years, started about 22 years ago, I have been through about 15 years of counseling and the last 6 years I have not suffered from PTSD. Now this past month I am having panic attacks, flashbacks, nightmares, anxiety issues...

Hello. My name is Kristin. 22 year survivor of PTSD and off/on severe depression. After 6 years of being "well", I now find myself going through PTSD again. Not sure of the trigger this time and not sure why I have it again, so I came here. Thank you for having me here - Kristin