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Is it a bad idea to go somewhere you know could be triggering when you don't have to go there? My problem isn't with my destination itself, but with the road that goes to it. It's the road I had to drive to and from the place where my most recent trauma happened, and not a road I had occasion to...

Ever since my last trauma in January, and especially since my fiance has fallen into the depressive side of his Bipolar Disorder, I've been in a depression I can't get free from. And, frankly, I don't see any reason why I shouldn't be depressed. My mental health isn't good enough to go through...

I was wondering if anyone else here is dealing with both Bipolar Disorder and PTSD. I've had people ask how I'm so certain of my co-morbid diagnosis because there's some overlap in symptoms, but I had Bipolar before I developed PTSD, and the two feel very different and separate to me...

I'd been doing really well PTSD-wise until last night. I was just sitting there and suddenly I was in a blizzard and crying and screaming (thankfully only in my head) that I wanted out of the cold. I'm not sure how long it lasted, but I was absolutely convinced I was outside in the snow. It...

Does anyone else have fairly long periods of time (weeks or months) where their symptoms seem to go dormant, not showing up even when there's stress or triggers? I keep having weeks or even a month where the PTSD is totally quiet and I start to doubt whether I really have it, then it will...

I'm not very comfortable posting here because I don't feel like anything bad enough has happened in my life to justify PTSD. But denial hasn't done me a lot of favors so far, so I figure I'll take the chance. I was actually diagnosed with PTSD in 2011 after a long series of people I was very...