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I want to clarify something that many people have trouble understanding. I am about a year from my degree, but I am a psychology major with a minor in Women, Gender, and Sexuality studies, and, well, this isn't brain surgery, but it is confusing. Your biology is your sex, how you identify is...

Be careful how you interpret this data. The cause of the ptsd can have a big impact on this answer.

Yeah, I think that it has to do with the fact that I have a very large personal space and I have times that I need to just not talk. When I go to lunch, I have my phone and either read or do puzzles. The puzzles are usually best because they keep my brain busy and I don't get so wrapped up in...

This forum is to be helpful to each other. You are being offensive and inciteful.

No, no. It's that I had to interact constantly because someone was attached to my hip all day. My job has variety, so I can spend time doing things where I don't have to interact much and I can relax a bit. But, with training someone, it's constantly pretending that I'm "normal", pretending...

Yeah, my therapist said it's cumulative. It should be an option.

My sex has nothing to do with it. Your suggestion was unhelpful. I am in school full time for a bachelor's, but that is still 4-5 years. Besides, that is not what I was asking. Please stick to the subject.

Yeah, ok, why didn't I think of that? I'll start tomorrow.

It is the same thing. Forced interaction where certain behaviors are unacceptable.

I was not referring to the trainee. I meant the day itself.

I work for AAFES in a small main store. We just got a new employee and the boss has me training her. She's great...smart, asks questions, etc. Yesterday was her third day and after about 4 hours I felt the anxiety growing. I only had 2 hours left, so I fought it. I went to the back a...

For me, it's spending time with others who understand. Just being around other vets and sometimes talking, sometimes bullshitting, and sometimes silence. The thing is that I don't have to try to make them understand, they just do. This is when I can breathe.

I have not been on that med, but I am on another beta blocker, atenolol. It's to keep my pulse down to help control panic attacks. It's in addition to my snri and it definitely helps.

Depends on the day. Angry day: Paint it Black Tired of it All Day: Imagine

That's an interesting explanation. I've spent years pretending that my anger is normal. It's not. It needs to be let our beneficially. I used to run, gd I miss running, but my body's a mess already, so that's out. I saw another soldier say that weapons are what calms him. I miss the range...

I want to scream, so badly do I wish that I could go out into the trees and just scream. The urge is there, on the bad days it's strong, but I just....can't. It's the same with crying. Sometimes, I think that I have faked it for so long, that the dam is too strong. A couple of things can make...

I am Stacie. I am a female combat veteran, having served in the Army and deployed to Bosnia in 1998. My PTSD is a result of cumulative trauma. I am a victim of MST and witnessed another soldier's suicide while deployed. I have just recently learned that what I went through was MST and that...