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I'm sure there must be some overlap between the two, either that or the same thing? I've always had a tough time understanding what is and isn't a trigger. I think if something triggers a flashback/hyper-vigilance/intense dissociation, or in some other way reminds you of your trauma hence...

You need to get meds for specific aspects of PTSD like Digger said. These typically are broken up by these symptoms: Depression, Anxiety, Mood Stabilization and Sleep. I'm in the UK and I'm on a combination of medications, including two anti-depressants, an anxiolytic, sleep meds and a...

Have nightmares/dreaming increased or is your sleep disturbed in some other way (like anxiety, panic, insomnia etc, etc) more than normal?

I think loosely we mean functioning, as in being able to hold down a job, have friends, a partner and family that isn't abusive. Still having natural good and bad times, but not being plagued with debilitating anxiety, depression, dissociation and flashbacks. For me it is the idea that I could...

Sorry it was me thinking on a broader scale as well as therapists and other relationships as is seen here on this site - I was very unclear! No, I mean many different people in my life, though this has included many non-family members and whilst it hasn't directly included therapists, it does...

I had a dissociative seizure recently which presents identically to any normal variant of seizure (mine was an occipital lobe seizure) however there is no organic cause and it occurred minutes after a bad flashback when I was already shaken and dissociative. I don't know if this gives you...

I agree for the most part and I know this is a problem I need to work on but for me I have encountered in the past with many different people that when I ask them they become abusive or manipulative or it was worse than I thought. So for me it's overcoming this fear that any person can just...

Fear and shock/horror/confusion. My now self feels disgust, sickness and mental pain but it it's all largely disconnected and distant. Mostly I feel fear and distinctly unsafe.

This is sounds like what I was having, also it felt like I was choking on "it" being forced into my throat and gagging a lot. I don't know if the sickness is because of the gagging, because of the disgust I feel at and/or from the memory or disgust or because of panic or something else. I had...

I know this is posted a bit late after it's release, but I'm hoping some of you might enjoy this (satirical) piece for a laugh.... "New Study Shows People With Panic Disorders Respond Poorly To Being Locked In Underwater Elevators"

May I recommend the app called Ambiance can be found on the Android and Apple appstore, if you have a smart phone. There's a free version which works just as well. The other day I put in my headphones which are slightly noise cancelling (but not so much that you can't hear what's going on...

I have had it on and off for the past three days (it's exhausting) but yesterday I was so dissociated. Be sure to take extra good care of yourself for the next few days and go easy on yourself. Do you know what you were doing (or others around you) just before it started? Mine was just a very...

I agree with much of what you have said Kagamine, for myself, even though I ended up in hospital after an overdose I'm told was seven times the fatal dose, I had no ill effects except for a temporary rise in heart rate. I felt cheated out of the peace that I was certain death would provide. Now...

It took me about nine years of resisting meds before admitting that I needed to be on them, I hate having anything foreign inside of me. Anything that might dull my awarenesses or being used against me, that might put me in danger or at risk of it, that might make me do something I wouldn't have...

I think realistically, unpleasant or not the need to kill and to gain some pleasure from it is a natural, evolutionary and instinctual thing. I think that most people have learned that we've survived (as a species) by sticking together and also a species we have developed a strong sense empathy...

Some criminals/abusers are right handed and I am right handed as well, that doesn't mean that the shared right-handedness means we are the same the same goes for mental health good or bad. I think for many mental health problems, the amount of suffering experienced by the, well, sufferer is a...

I agree strongly with other replies here in that a) most people who are abusers are mentally ill b) there is more than one type of mentally ill and c) negative stigma surrounds mental health problems. In these regards I feel that maybe you see this in a black and white manner. Mental ill...

I think I'm going to bow out of this one, I'm going away for a fortnight and whilst I could take my laptop, it seems like you've got plenty of other people who feel more at home doing what you require! Plus, if I'm honest my anxiety has spiked and negative thoughts processes have taken over...

I would say personally, I am not entirely confident in my volunteering! I would try and probably do something quite good, but I am very worried it won't be what is sought after, so if there are other options to maybe message them first. I don't know, I recently did something for a friends...

If I could have a bit more detail of what you want. I may be able to have a go - I wouldn't want to say I can do it without hearing what you want first as I wouldn't want to disappoint.

Thank you definitely maybe, that helps! :)

I've done both now!

If it helps my therapist tells me to go home and dissociate after sessions where we've touched on trauma, but then she recognizes both that and self-harm as coping tools that keep me alive and doesn't tell me not to do either.

I did the survey and I'm in the UK, there was no questions involving specific locations or requests that you should be in a specific country, the closest was whether you lived rurally, in a city or suburban area etc. The stressful life events of this quiz is the kind of trauma involved in PTSD...

I've noticed the office suit getting more cluttered and less functional since 2003 and although I've been happy enough with them, when I've taught others how to use it, despite becoming more simple in some regards, it's also become more complex - minimalistic and cluttered at the same time...