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For my family and I, having an annual pass with FL discount and no-interest payment plan makes it so that we can afford to experience the magic of being in the parks, which, is only partly due to the entertainment but also partly sunshine and exercise. (We log over 10 miles on pedometer the day...

Here's a Q&A that I recommend reading if heading to Walt Disney World, which is the most visited tourist attraction in the world for PTSD. Of course, my thread also applies to any disability. They allow service animals in, but I would find that a challenge to go on rides. I don't know how people...

Just wanted to share this as a couple other members have mentioned Disney. I found out that if you go to Guest Relations at the entrance of the park, you can fill out a registration form and they will determine if you qualify for "no standing in line" accommodations. Since I have been...

Thank you for helping me understand better and keep my empathy meter high, @Incongruous Also, according to online research, I read that having amnesia for childhood abuse is "situation specific" amnesia and only occurs in PTSD, meaning that likely everyone in my family has PTSD. That's a big...

I had my 2nd child and had experienced enough strength and new coping skills to be "ready" I think so that old dissociative coping no longer was a match for my functioning. So in that sense it did wear out. Thank you for that phrase, @Lynn49 I was taking Magnesium. If I took it too much...

I know it's a dumb question nobody can answer with any degree of certainty, but nonetheless, I am trying to be emotionally prepared for my siblings to perhaps begin to suffer from flashbacks of the abuse now the abusive father just died. I have read that some remember when strong enough, some...

I also find this reporting thing so challenging and scary, even to think about it, which is what paralyzes me. Since I've had better experiences with a private lawyer when it comes to personal injury, and since a lawyer in a town I lived in worked so hard to win a class action lawsuit on...

After having years of PTSD without significant flashbacks, with more dissociation (amnesia, blackouts, zombie, no hunger, disconnected from my body, etc) only to enter a very active flashback phase for some times, I am curious about what happens in a person to make them vulnerable to such a...

I'm sorry. This is a very isolating and lonely place to be among the inner divisions looking out and seeing nothing but panic and confusion. It's mayhem inside in that shock of touch as a breech of the silence one needs at that moment to feel contained. I have had this experience often during...

I'm with you, Florian. My "hallucinations" are ordinary things I've seen or heard sort of Blipping and I feel disoriented and fuzzy for a minute just prior to and after. They sound real but I feel a sense of "doubt" due to the fuzzy feeling. For me it was a week ago that at work I kept...

Also, you know it's not real, which is consistent with flashback. If psychosis, we'd be the ones telling you that cannot be really happening. Auditory hallucinations is typical of autoimmune disease of Lupus, I found out. I think that sometimes when we have PTSD, we attribute everything that...

That sounds like a flashback, not psychosis, because of the dissociation that goes with it and flashbacks are a dissociative phenomenon, so they say.

What really helps me to feel like I'm safe and having a good time and to help me feel it won't be long before I can go back is to make a food I ate there and watch the rides I like on YouTube. A lot of times, it is almost as fun as being there. Also the parades are on YouTube and the shows...

I can relate to your post, though I don't have the Dx, I have a lot of the symptoms, including hearing parts talking in my just about to wake up time about eating and then realizing later that I am unable to eat except along the lines they discussed, as if they decided for me. Seems to happen...

Thank you, there are other doctors I can get into sooner, but not ones that would likely be able to diagnosis my autoimmune condition, or its severity. I am most curious about that since my abusive father is dying of an autoimmune disease that he never had diagnosed. He got some Dx's such as...

I guess it also depends if you have received a doctor's note or gov't benefits from being declared disabled to enough of a % to receive documentation and benefits. If not, then why would the answer not be "no"? It's only a lie if you say no when the answer is already proved to be yes. That...

My sister has the same symptoms, and we all test positive for an autoimmune disease but which we don't know yet. One of them that my test leads to includes shortness of breath as pulmonary hypertension, and can lead to death. So I was pretty freaked out in case that was "coming for me." But I...

I had eaten and then felt suddenly very tired. I don't usually feel that tired or need to lie down. But I did, and I fell asleep, also very not me. I cannot nap unless I am sick, usually I have to have a fever to nap. I am very tightly wound all day until dark, then I'm a lazy girl, then I go...

I went to the ER because I woke up from a nap after feeling very tired suddenly mid-day on a Saturday. Upon waking, I felt a shortness of breath that I have been feeling and associated with a health problem (I'm female, otherwise sort of healthy, 39). It progressed to major hyperventilation...

I have no way of knowing this, but based on my experiences as a female and observing other women who have been through this stuff, it seems that its always possible that these later traumas are also a smokescreen for early severe trauma that conditioned her to accommodate sexual assaults and to...

Making a big commitment and finding stability is a lot for this man right now. I bet it you look at his past, when he left for boot camp, and got cheated on and hurt, I bet you find that something in the present circumstances is triggering that relationship trauma. Just a hunch. I could be way...

If they don't respond, keep calling until you reach the one you need to talk to about this schedule change. I'm sure something will work. Don't give up. I know how tiring and frustrating it is when this stuff happens. It is probably the most frustrating part of PTSD for me. I have trouble...

@Incongruous I'm sad to think of you and me and other kids having fathers like this. Did you have one therapist for 25 years or 17 years? I don't know how you did that. I'm in awe of what you had to do and what you were strong enough to do. I need to process this. It hurts me to think about...

The co-survival siblings dynamic is fragile. I have yet to meet siblings who as adults have anything close to a desired level of relating who grew up in a chaotic and PTSD-inducing environment. I think it is way too much to ask to expect the sibling relationship, already known for adversity...

The "good stress" of successfully buying a house could actually be adding to his reactivity. I know 'excitement' over life changes like this can also add to my PTSD being more noticed in my body with faster heart rate. I don't notice this, until there's a loud sound or something, and then, I...