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Friends and family insist I have PTSD, my therapist disagrees. I think it's possible, but don't know if I qualify. So not diagnosed, but not quite self-diagnosed.

What books or other media do you think portray PTSD particularly well? For me, The Hunger Games trilogy did a great job of showing how impacted by everything Katnis and the other characters were, and how different from most stories her future relationships were. Slaughterhouse 5 is actually a...

Usually my panic attacks have extreme fight or flight, this didn't have as much of it. Doesn't mean it wasn't a different manifestation of the same thing.

Curling up, eyes forcing themselves shut. Started hitting my leg till my wife started me. Every muscle is tensing up, and it feels like my brain has tensed up too. I'm hyperventilating and can't breath. Don't think I'm specifically fearful or anxious, really. Didn't feel like anxiety or panic...

I'm a beginning artist, but just make my own art from scratch. Coloring books are still awesome, though, just not my thing. <3

I know you're not a mistake, 100%. <3

Followup post about one of the friends who died. Industrial accident. This was originally part of a chat conversation, edited. I was on a ballistic missile sub, the USS Nebraska. We had two crews, Gold Crew and Blue Crew, and we trade the boat back and forth. My crew will deploy for a few...

That was uncanny to read. I read that list to my wife, to get her perspective as well. asking her if she thought any applied to me. Um, yeah. Every single one. Constantly.

I'm absolutely terrified of guns. I couldn't sleep with one anywhere in the house.

So last year I learned I have a neurological condition now called Aphantasia. It's been noticed before a few times, but never heavily studied or named until the past year or two. People with aphantasia do not have mental images. That is, we don't picture anything in our minds. There's a lot of...

Best of luck! And congratulations on the move, as well.

After a couple of downer intro posts, I wanted to mention one really good thing going on. I'm finally back in school, and for the first time ever, doing awesome. New ADHD medicine is helping a lot with this. I'm having more frequent anxiety and panic because I'm going out more often, and I've...

I talked about it some in my welcome post, but I'm a Navy veteran. I never saw combat. I wasn't assaulted or abused. I wasn't exposed to anything everyone else wasn't. Nothing that's abnormal or outside normal life experience. I was closeted transgender, I performed miserably, I was yelled at...

So I’m not sure that I actually have PTSD. My therapist certainly says I don’t meet the requirements. I do, however, have some similar symptoms, so I hope it’s okay to join this community even if I might not technically have PTSD. I was in the Navy for five years, got out about seven years ago...