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I don't know, I'm confused. Do you mean like just his arm around your neck? I personally would be worried about what it would turn into but that's just me. My experience was much different in that my ex husband would choke me until I blacked out when he got angry with me, (which was all the...

I agree with this so much. I will never forgive my ex husband for what he did to me. I had in the past, and all it did was open the doors for him to abuse me again. He essentially took 10 years of my life from me. He was 25, and sought out a girl with low self esteem who just finishing up...

Wow, it's really good to know I'm not alone! I totally agree that your friends are your family. My best friend of over 15 years has become like my sister, and she even thought it was a good idea to stop talking to my father. She's always calls my actual sister a brat. People in general like...

I recently made the move to cut all ties with my family, with the support of my therapist. They have been really awful people to me since I was a little kid. I was having a really tough time, because every couple of months they were doing something that they knew would hurt me, and then turned...

I tell people on a need to know basis. But even when I've had a panic attack when other people are around, I still don't tell them. I don't like having to go into details as to why I have PTSD, because it's too dark for most people. Plus it helps me when I try to fool myself into thinking I...

I went through periods in my life trying to hide it, and for the most part I can. Only the people that know me really well can usually tell when I'm having anxiety issues. There have been just a few instances where I've needed to "escape" where ever I am though because it got too bad. I can...

I'm in the same boat. My father is really Catholic and most of my family doesn't believe mental illness exists. My mother was diagnosed bipolar, and no one in the family would take it seriously. I was diagnosed with PTSD and I am prone to having panic attacks on occasion and my father told me...

I have a really tough time letting people close to me. I do the disappearing act, but I have had one or two at one time close friends that I blew up at. Just got mad at them for no real good reason except to make them not want to talk to me. One of which I still feel really bad about 4 years...

I ended up leaving my hometown immediately following my divorce from my abusive ex because of the same thing. Moved to a new state several states away. His family was seriously stalking me, and his friends tried to befriend me to get information for him. I couldn't go anywhere or talk to...

I have a therapy dog. I had been having really bad panic attacks, and I do have a heart condition already, so it's not the best for me to get all worked up. She's trained to be there for me when I'm stressed and calms me down. But I don't take her with me every where I go or anything, just to...

An update to this. The good news is that the constant pounding has stopped, but only after it escalated. The apt management didn't do anything, and refused to get involved. We kept covering all our bases and writing them letters with all the times she was harassing us. Then like 2 weeks ago...

I left a really violent marriage several years ago. Don't go back. Keep running in the opposite direction. Don't even look back. Look, it only gets worse. So many people tried to get me away from my ex, and it wasn't until I myself saw him for what he really was when I finally got away. I...

My apartment complex is surrounded by 3 huge man made lakes that separate each of the buildings. It's pretty humid where I live to begin with because we are next to a major river and close to the ocean, so that brings out a lot of critters in the summer. I've always loved catching things as a...

I think this may have been resolved. I hope. My husband went down early Monday morning before work to talk to the office manager for our apartment complex. The manager kept telling him at first that quiet hours start at 11pm and we just had to try and keep it down after then. But my...

I actually lost it today. After yesterday's pounding because the dog was chewing on her chew bone at 3pm on a Friday afternoon, I woke up feeling like I was going to have a panic attack. Felt like that most of the morning. The skin crawling, feeling like an elephant on my chest type feeling...

I was really late learning to drive too, like in my 30s. Same thing basically, my parents wouldn't allow me to get my permit until I was 18, and then I got involved with my ex-husband who didn't want me to drive. Both my parents and my ex would tell me that I would be dangerous on the road...

My husband said he's just going to go about his normal daily routines, and she's just going to have to adjust. Being how I am, I worry about everything, I've been tip toeing around the house and trying to do everything as quietly as I can. Probably not the best idea. I've also been through a...

New here, and already posted a thread in the Discussions forum. I'll introduce myself, I was diagnosed with PTSD right after my 30th birthday. I had been in a pretty violent marriage, and then witnessed my mother's death while I was getting out of the marriage. It was definitely not a great...

I think I would feel really bad about pounding back, plus I worry that would escalate things. I did go down and talk to management for a solid 15 minutes yesterday. They had said that they had been shocked that she had such a problem with us, because they see me quite regularly because we have...

The plant might be a good idea. I have a bit of a green thumb, and have a little garden of potted plants on our back porch, so I could give her one. The thing is I'm not sure how she would react to that. I've had three interactions with her, all pretty negative. 1st time, she was just moving...

Hi, I'm new here. I was officially diagnosed with PTSD about 6 years ago after I witnessed my mother's death, and I also had just left a physically abusive and violent marriage after 12 years. I had a really difficult time coping with both, but after a few years of therapy, a new happy &...