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I progressively increased prazosin to 4mg a night, 1mg increase each week, and after 6 weeks of taking it did absolutely nothing for my nightmares nor my sleep. I'm so used to insomnia and even when I take ambien or trazadone or ativan I still can't sleep, prazosin and ativan together even did...

I will read it, thank you for the link as I don't know how to navigate around here yet. Do hang in there, I feel "everything" you wrote about - I just don't want to feel anymore so I have not let myself for few months now. And I stay in the house, never call my friends back and have pushed...

I'm sorry, Stp2012, THANK YOU, I feel like I have ADHD right now and can't breathe to calm myself down and am missing stuff LOL. My comment above is to both you and Justmehere.

Oh, and get this, in DBT I just went back other day and it was packed in the room (not like the time I went before at all) and ALL they (the participants and instructor) were focused on was PTSD questions and answers. I was in so much pain that day (it's raining and freezing here every day now...

Wow, fake is exactly how I have felt lately and it's SO HARD when sitting in front of a trauma psychiatrist, who has 20+ years experience as oen of the top VA psychiatrists in a huge city filled with (OMG, brain fart...can't even remember what to call them, armed forces?? San Diego)...anyway, I...

Ronin, may I ask you a question (or more like can you comment on what I wrote in another post just now and help me understand these things better)? My brain hurts LOL (it's true tho). There are so many things I just don't understand:((( Apologies for making it all about me right now, just so...

Thank you, my new friend! It was a very rough couple of weeks there and I just watched and rewatched the same movie each day (a different one each day, but once lost concentration and realized I had I would restart it just to keep from thinking and have not been drinking - that's a first for me...

It's not a one decisio... Thank you, Ronin, I did not know you can appeal so I appreciate that! And TY everyone, for the words...it's a rough journey and you really have to accept day by day activities (you're forced to, can't visualize like used to nor see what my future even holds cause just...

Hi, I'm sure some of you have felt this way - due to chronic pain (after four musculoskeletal surgeries this past year) and waking multiple times each night from both the pain and nightmares of the bloody violent gang rape 15 years ago, I just cannot get out of bed anymore. NOTHING motivates...

Thank you, it's very nice to be here, involved with this forum! And your feedback is much appreciated - you summed it up exactly as I needed to hear it, that I'm making sense. I just started DBT and look forward to learning more about it. I sure hope it can help with all such struggles because...

Thank you, Weedflower, for your wonderful words - it truly helps knowing someone understands these garbled words in my mind, being typewritten out for the first time! And please pardon me, I am new at dealing with PTSD and just figuring out how to write about it...yes, all PTSD is real. I am so...

You are so sweet and kind! Thank you, may we both find that peace soon, too:)

I'm brand new here and very new at dealing with even knowing I have real PTSD, so sorry I have no advice yet, but I can tell you I feel the EXACT same way and have so much anger myself, I do not know how to deal with anything! Just wanted to say you are not alone in any of what you just shared -...

I just wrote my first response/post after joining this group tonight. I feel like the last 15 years have all been a big blur and I did not even know I had real PTSD until after trying to commit suicide three times in November. After re reading what I wrote, I still could not even make sense of...

Wow, the same happened with me this past year, too. Sufferer - Can Anyone Help Me Understand What I'm Even Trying To Say Below?