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i am having panic attacks again for the first time in years. I woke up the day after Christmas dry heaving in fear. I forgot how awful these are. Can you guys remind me of some coping skills for panic attacks?

PTSD is awful. I have been facing mine head on for the last 4 years. It's hard. The more you look at it, your symptoms get worse. At least initially. I think of it a burping a pickle jar. You have to vent it in little bursts and then take recovery time. Whatever the trauma, if it caused PTSD it...

Started meds for exacerbated depression and dissociative symptoms. Have chronic pain. Started on citalopram 20 mg (dry mouth and eyes). Clonidine (alpha blocker to reduce norepinephrine) and had pain addressed via lidocane patch. That kind of pain you forget you have because you're accustomed to...

I live with depression and PTSD with dissociation. When I was a teen my mother died. The rest of my family fell into drug use and alcoholism. I went hungry a lot. I had a boyfriend who was controlling and abusive who I relied on to feed me and a group of shitty horrible friends. When I broke up...

I am becoming increasingly aware of my dissociation which I find disturbing. A recent EMDR session led to previously hidden knowledge about the time I was kidnapped, raped and tortured by a group of teenage boys. Since then I have been having increased dissociation. I have also been getting...

I have been working with a trusted EMDR therapist over the last 4 years. During the course of my treatment I started reexperiencing intense memories of a kidnapping and drug facilitated assault by multiple perpetrators that occurred when I was a teen. It has come in fits and bursts always with a...