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I think that dissociating while driving is incredibly dangerous to other people. I am far enough along in managing my PTSD that I can feel it coming and pull off the road. I have never blacked out for dissociating, at least not that I remember. I have huge memory gaps and can't remember a...

I try to use the images as a test to see how aware I am of my thoughts. Instead of immediately panicking when one of those horrible animal cruelty prevention ads comes on television I slowly identified that these bothered me because I was "flashing" in my mind on mutilated animals. Then I...

Alcohol was one of 3 addictions that are now HISTORY. It did help me sleep though. I wake up startled about my workload.

Very dangerous!! I had a recovered memory and dissociated driving home from the grocery store recently. Had to pull off road. Otherwise it's just going to work, where the stress lives.

I totally get it. You sound like a nut but it's clearly just another way for your trauma to leak out. Our minds are telling us to PAY ATTENTION because there are threats out there, dammit. For me, because there are no real and current threats so with the horrible images I try to uses this as...

Sometimes the images are of other horrible things, not just animals. As if we don't have enough terrible memories!

I realized I cannot deal, at all, with anything relating to animal cruelty because like my experiences as a child, animals have no voice and are victimized. This came to light when I recognized that numerous times every day I have images of mutilated animals flash in my mind. I see a puppy...

Awesome! For me pegging the diagnosis was huge, and I too figured out my bizzare set of symptoms fit PTSD perfectly. It was a huge relief. There are a lot of us out there, Duane.

Anyone else okay falling asleep, only to wake up around 3am with the mind racing, adrenaline pumping, heart palpitating, full of anxiety and fear? My therapies and recovery has progressed so the nightmares are only occasional but now my sleep is okay except that it is impossible to get back to...

Sometimes I dissociate at work. Recently I dissociated during a meeting and have no idea what I said! It's like being wrapped in plastic and your brain is floating above the table but your body is immobilized. Also, it happens when I commute and am behind the wheel. Frightening. Anyone...

Yes it does hurt. The more you worry the tighter the airway constricts. Does anyone else carry a rescue inhaler as I have started to do??

Wow, I am not alone! The pattern is that when I need to be listened to, and am afraid I won't be heard, the throat closes. So incredibly obvious this is PTSD. Sad!

A new development for me in the past 2 years is that my throat constricts when I am badly triggered and have to talk to someone. VERY SCARY.

I so appreciate all these replies. I made an appointment with my doc to start looking at what chemically is going on inside of me -- blood work et al. I want to know if I have elevated or absent blood levels that would be a result of the constant pit of fear inside. What is chemically going...

@KwanYingirl . Well put. I am sitting on my couch at 5am trying to put on my weekday work suit, filled with dread,and I have the best job in the world. Awful. Other people don't have to live like this.

After many years of healing and therapy and work on my lifelong PTSD I have hit a wall. Therapy, medication, yoga, breathing, positive self talk, reading forums like this -- all helped me size my problem and understand my options. But I realize that I am uncontrollably firing adrenaline pretty...

My outside face is an energetic, successful woman with a really great life. I wish I could enjoy that great life I finally built! It really is amazing. In a few words: abusive father....mom who didnt protect me...sibs older and flew the nest as soon as possible...fat, bullied at school...lived...