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"Only" mentally messed up...there are few physical wounds that last as long as untreated mental trauma. I hope you get help and that you will be able to shake this thing off!

PTSD-sufferers don't compare and rank each others experiences, and anyway, there's not some sort of absolute scale of traumatic experiences. To paraphrase and vary on Robert Heinlein: one man's traumatic experience is another man's belly laugh'. That may be an exaggeration, but I guess you get...

Deal with it - the sooner the better. And wherever you live there are phones so you can call a helpline. There's also online counseling. And don't count out some of your roommates. I don't know if they are army room mates or oil drilling roommates but it seems you're in a macho-environment. I've...

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I think these were different times, neighborhood children were supposed to keep an eye on each other. I made sure nobody in my family noticed something strange about me. I didn't tell anyone and when someone asked where I'd been I just answered 'playing with the other kids'. Why I did not want...

I didn't tell my parents, I was afraid they would blame me, although I don't know for what exactly.

Where I live a therapist has a couple of sessions for intake, and then he has to come up with a diagnosis and a treatment plan, which I would ask for if I were you. And if you're aaking this question here you're obviously not trusting the process, so I would discuss that with your therapist...

I have no idea who he was. I always see some face when I think of it, but I think that is more a sort of generic evil face. I've never paid much attention to the memory until a couple of years ago, and now my reacts to it very intensely, but my mind doesn't give much detail so I have no,isea...

I feel sorry for you, you're obviously having a very bad time. You don't have to hate yourself for things other people do or did. And it seems you're in a crisis right now so get in touch with a helpline to talk to somebody ASAP - I don't know which one because I'm on another continent, but if...

There is no trick to validate your own memories without external information. I have a recurrent memory of being kidnappapped when I was 4 and wrestling free and running home. I'm pretty sure this really happened, but I have another memory that presents itself in the exact same way in my head of...

Finding the right therapist might take some time and false starts, so don't waste time amd move on.

@MesaRock: for me justice includes revenge. If the state locks someone up, that also carries an element of revenge and ensures that victims do not need to beat up the perpetrator themselves. Although that last activity was actually what I was dreaming about. I am glad I no longer think of...

I had a lot of revenge daydreams when I just had acknowledged I had been abused and that I needed to confront it and find some form of therapy. Now, more than a year of therapy later, I no longer dream of revenge. If you sit on the bank of the river long enough the body of your enemy will come...

Inappropriate speech is part of the sexual misconduct definition of most licensing organizations for health professionals, which could lead to temporary or permanent suspension of his license. I know this must be hard, but the best thing to do is to report him to his licensing board. And of...

Your boyfriend may or may not have PTSD, and if he has he should seek treatment, with which you can help him, but which is not your responsibility. Further, it seems to me that not all his behavior (even very little of it) is typical for PTSD-sufferers. He should not use PTSD as an excuse to act...