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I honestly feel I have made so much progress towards tackling my symptoms of PTSD that if requestioned I wouldn't qualify for the diagnosis anymore. I struggled greatly with it for years but learning to accept it and then focus on healing and tackling symptoms has really made a world of...

Having a loved one attempt suicide can be a very emotional and terrible thing. Everyone deals with these things differently. I highly suggest investing in therapy so you can sort through these feelings. There could be an element of self-blame involved, such as you feeling responsible for what...

At this point, recovery for me means having a healthy relationship in which I am comfortable with someone intimately. I have made so much progress in fighting this illness, but it still has me conquered in the way of relationships. I know the only way to fix this is to face my fear and allow a...

Hmm....actually I didn't really think about that. Taking baby steps....How do I become more comfortable in a guy's presence though? And guy friendships I tend to avoid in case they become a relationship. I think I have improved in this somehow though because things like being on an elevator...

On getting a boyfriend....I have so much anxiety around sexual things that I go out of my way to avoid interactions with guys....the only guys I can talk to normally are guys my friends are dating because I know they won't get interested in me....the other day my friend's boyfriend's friend came...

I haven't experienced a flashback in ages now because I learned several coping mechanisms for dealing with them. I'd say the thing that helped most for me was learning what my triggers are and avoiding them. Of course sometimes you can't always avoid triggers. So I then learned how to recognize...

Yeah I know. But the issue is I don't know when I'm going to be doing really bad. I can't just say "well next week I'm probably going to have my depression weighing on me the worst so I should probably schedule two then." And I don't have the money to schedule two appointments every week. I wish...

When I talked with my therapist about it before she said when I needed to we could schedule more than one session a week. But now that I contacted her yesterday and asked her if we could do one today as well as Thursday she said she wasn't available! She's apparently not available at all...

I built a tolerance to that so fast (is that possible?) ....almost makes me concerned that the reason why I stopped getting side effects from the Zoloft after 4 days was because it stopped doing anything... Anyways the tension is back for me at night, last night was very rough, and I was waking...

I have another support forum I go on aside from this one for people with psychotic disorders (mostly schizophrenics). I posted about psychosis-related PTSD on there as well, and it is amazing how many people on there feel the same way as I do about their psychotic episodes. (Bad amazing, it's...

So I feel my last therapy session was important because I became aware of something that may play a part in my regular memory loss. (I have a lot of issues with memory) We started talking about something that was very upsetting to me. I felt tears coming and pain/sadness/anxiety rise up in my...

A lot of the false memory dilemma also rose up during a period of history a while back when therapy was still based on "every issue you have is due to a repressed traumatic experience." This did cause an outbreak of false memories and research was done as to how memories could be "implanted" by...

I actually found out a couple days ago that at medium doses seroquel qualifies as an antidepressant rather than an antipsychotic. You need higher doses of it to get AP properties. I'll talk more with my therapist about it next week.

Last session one of the things I talked about with my therapist was whether or not I may be in the prodromal stages of schizophrenia (earliest stage of the disorder, symptoms start to appear but the person still has lucidity and is aware they are experiencing weird things, vs full-blown...

The being able to remember repressed memories more accurately than ordinary every day memories you always have access to could be due to how memory works. Whenever you remember something, you are not remembering the event itself but the last time you remembered the event! This can create a...

Nonspecific psychotic and anxiety disorder. Very vague. The psychiatrist could tell something was very wrong with me but my symptoms didn't fit in neat little categories of specific mental illnesses. (Would've been diagnosed as schizophrenic, but no negative symptoms) I didn't even have time to...

I would go with your therapist's opinion over the psychiatrist's. That sounds weird, since the psychiatrist has the medical degree, but one of the issues I had with psychiatrists was that they didn't KNOW me. They gave me a diagnosis based off of a 20 minute conversation where I gave the...

I am so sorry :( I hope he is ok and recovers well!!

Wow.....ok so I always felt pathetic that I developed PTSD after bad psychotic episodes. I always felt like I didn't deserve to be traumatized by them because they weren't real and were all in my mind. Well I'm starting to research it now, and guess what? There is a phenomenon called...

Would like to report that today was my first day without negative side effects from the Zoloft! :) I was really concerned for a while with the bad anxiety attacks I was getting as well as the jitteriness, but I stuck with it and it's gone! (Hopefully does not come back) My depression hasn't...

I have the same issues with sleep as you, I wake up very frequently. Also I am prone to flashbacks at night and even when I don't get them I am tense about getting one so falling asleep is gross too. My doc gave me Ativan (it's a benzo, so you'd have to be careful about it since it's addictive)...

Ummm it took a while for me to realize the things I was experiencing were signs of trauma. Several years actually. I thought I was going crazy initially. Every night I'd have extreme anxiety that the attacks would happen again, which would typically send me into a paranoid state. Or I would feel...

I think it is a good idea to explain your situation in this case. I myself don't really talk about what I experience except with....one of my friends currently. (And my therapist but that doesn't count) I may expand that to tell more of my friends. I am worried it would make people see me...

Sometimes I wonder if a part of me wasn't taken to hell. I've read about soul retrieval before. Unfortunately I don't have the money to be able to dabble in that sort of thing right now. Best of luck to you on your healing journey though!

I have great difficulty talking about what happened to me as well. My therapist is moving slowly with me so I can discuss it more. I get the exact same issue as you, where if I try to talk about it my mind will suddenly go blank or spacy and I'll continuously lose my train of thought. Sometimes...