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I was a daily coffee/latte/espresso drinker. I love espresso but we just had coffee at home. I really don't like coffee daily, it gets nasty tasting fast. Recently, about 3 months ago, I just started having teas and haven't had coffee more than twice since. Not coincidentally, my breasts don't...

oh yah, then there is the 'yes I used to have/do that but don't any longer'. Night terrors (inability to regularly sleep at night), recurring nightmares of intruders, inability to have orgasms, etc etc etc, all things have 'fixed' through time, belief in impending doom (I really didn't think...

thank you for your response 2guilt. Anthony, thanks for that, I didn't realize that it was interactive like that. One problem I have with a lot of the criteria is that they assume that the 'event' was a one time thing or that I'd remember what I was like before 'it' happened. 'It' started with...

I did not follow the post and responses from where this originally came from. This is just my opinion about needle exchange programs. As a person that worked for one (I am an advocate and outreach worker for many causes), I fully believe in the necessity of needle exchange programs. I do not...

I don't understand what the diagnostic criteria C means (cut and pasted below). Does anyone have examples of these from personal experience? I know as a teenager I didn't believe I would live into adulthood. But here I am and I made it so...that doesn't apply to this any longer. I don't avoid...

I will be starting this soon enough....I look forward to connecting my intrusive emotions (I don't have intrusive memories but intrusive emotions when triggered) with memories. I feel disconnected from the memories (but haven't ever lost them). I personally am really excited that there is...

I have memory problems, retaining what I read or learn in Grad school. That is what sent me to the doc last fall. I used to clench and grind my teeth all night long, but thankfully that ended. I had night terrors at the time too, which kept me from getting much sleep. I don't have those anymore...

thanks for posting this, I was coming on to ask about EMDR and people's experience with it. I have a new therapist who thinks I definitely have PTSD (my last one thought it was just some maladaptive personality/behavioral traits that I learned as a kid). She uses EMDR a lot with great success. I...

thanks for the clarification all. Waif, thanks, I hadn't thought of my emotions being intrusive, but yes, they are. They are disabling at times and often outside of my understanding (like, where did that come from, and why?). I am talking to a psychologist, and will bring this up to her when I...

Kathy, I know what the diagnostic criteria are. And I have read the link you supplied. I am curious why waif123's link was removed? Also, the question was 'can you have ptsd without intrusive thoughts?'

"I found this on the net. do you re-experience your trauma in other ways?" I'm not sure. I know I REACT in anger, agitation, frustration, emotionally. I know that the bulk of my traumas were as a kid and that when I was younger (in my twenties) I did experience recurring dreams (night terrors)...

Do you have to have intrusive thoughts about a specific incident that probably instigated PTSD to have PTSD? Can you just have every other symptom except for intrusive thoughts and still have PTSD?

I used to grind mine all night long. It would wake me up often enough (as a child). Several of my siblings do to. The teeth grinding ended when I was about 18 when I learned a meditation. I haven't heard that I do anymore and I haven't woken up doing it since then. I know that I do clench my...

I recently read that ptsd affects memory in that trauma actually reduces the areas (in size) where short term memories are stored. I read that some of these memories are irretrievable because of that simple fact.

I had to do 'a safe place' for visualization in counseling years ago. My counselor wanted me to be able to hand over myself as a little kid to someone for safe watching while I was an adult. For me, that was my best friend. I have watched her take care of her kids and other kids with loving...

Thanks Bailey. I feel like the only memories I have are bad ones and that I have been dealing with it my whole life (to the disappointment of my family unfortunately). I wonder now after a lifetime of fatigue, poor productivity, and instant irritability how to get past the HABITS of them. I...

geeze, do they give you back your memory, energy and take away the irritability? (miracle pills!)

Yes, and a need for privacy with shyness. I am NOT shy by any means, but I am very private, and that can appear shy.

I haven't experienced this, though I am sorry you had to. I wonder if you have seen the show 'six feet under'? In it, one of the characters gives a ride to a hitchhiker and the hitchhiker does the same thing to him, holds him hostage and essentially tortures him. During it, he makes him smoke...

Hello all, I know there is a specific medication link here but I was wondering, for those of you that take meds to treat the symptoms of PTSD, what do you take and have they helped? I know that meds aren't the be all, end all, and I know that therapy is an essential healing component. Still, do...

Oh and thanks nie, She Cat and vee_dog. BTW vee_dog, it was a psychologist then a pyschiatrist that I have been seeing that suspected PTSD (my primary doc sent me there because I thought I had ADHD). They are Navy docs, pretty well versed on PTSD, and I like them a lot.

Thanks Anthony. I am confused about PTSD being incurable. I have read that neurons in the hippocampus do regrow. To me that sounds curable. As far as facing my traumas go, I have been my whole adult life, that is why I am even more confused. What I read on here makes it seem like people that...

Hi all... I live in the Pacific Northwest. I am married with a couple of dogs and a couple of cats, in grad school, and discovered a severe lack of ability to retain anything that I have been reading. I always knew I couldn't remember facts/figures/numbers/characters in books or movies/even...