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um, in my case it was because I got tired of people that couldn't differentiate between fact or fiction and my vibrant personality dealing with some of the common misconceptions that people wouldn't believe before. I mean I've even got the report that the psychiatrist got the psychologist to...

@Friday Thanks, I appreciate that very much. In a sense I have somewhat recovered from the biggest narcissist I've unknowingly had to deal with all my life until really dropping his mask even accusing me of trying to compete with him when I divulged I'd been dealing with mine since after 1996...

Again thank-you for the morals injury definition. It's given me an incredible epiphany after all the years trying to get someone to comprehend what my problem is and has been with people that either pretend to have integrity, or are more narcissistic than they've made me have to try and learn to...

@Swift Thank you and whoever determined something as intangible as moral injuries are to anyone else. It also explains why unless obvious trauma, so many normal people have difficulty identifying with "what your problem is with that".

Strength in numbers

@Briar Rose Revisiting and I don't want anyone thinking that I got this out of the movie "A Beautiful Mind", I just want to share that way back when anyone diagnosed me in a somewhat buried report that surfaced and my family doctor who was wanting me to concede everything I'd been telling about...

I'm not an expert, but I decided that escaping and going through what I had to for teaching business English in Asia would probably be better than any kind of BS therapy was doing to at least help get confidence back. All that BS just to say you write English OK.

You're better than I was when I wrote sentences that were more like writing code, with the end of the sentence at the beginning. I think I'm over it now and thank Bill Gates for saving a forest. .

Thanks for your concern, but after holding back all that happened to me for about 20 years because I knew my mother couldn't cope with that on top of my brother finding his 21 year old son dead on the floor the next morning after hearing the thump in the night and not bothering to see what it...

I think it was 5 I remembered and a shattered orbital bone from a punch. Like my Dad said talking about it a month ago while flipping channels between hockey, baseball, basket and football games, none of them were anything serious like the ones those guys get. On the other hand he denies knowing...

Without going into the great detail that I already did before deciding for KISS I'll just say mine's a lot more complex and probably wouldn't have manifested to the point it did if not for all the incompetence of so many doctors, police and agencies under my employer. Who conveniently neglected...

You've articulated what I usually describe briefly as probably sounding like I've been drinking, or I'm telling a lie, which of course to anyone that hasn't experienced it, (including doctors, psychologists, or therapists and did I leave anyone out), either a seed has been planted or...

I've been told the same Eve and had a certain psychiatrist list that as one of my axis' or something in a doctored report to cover where his excess brains come out when I had to request a copy of one that got destroyed in a fire when I was appealing my conviction as the result of his testimony...

If it helps, I'm of the opinion that everything you expressed goes with the territory of PTSD and doubt anyone on this site hasn't felt or feels any different. I expect if nothing else is common among us, it's that our self-confidence has been shattered and continually is from people that don't...

@anthony I wish you were around when the last mental health professional I’ll bother having anything to do with alleged that I wasn’t having a problem with PTSD anymore after asking me if I did. I might not have seen such a need to live away from all those in North America that exacerbated it...

If it helps from what I've read, (and been through as the result), the only way I've been able to remotely forgive the doctor that initially diagnosed me with bipolar disorder was when "they" came up with a with bipolar type 2 that PTSD is "often" mistaken for.

From my experience with them, do not ask, but take the form to whoever diagnosed for anything and tell them to fill it out. Going a little further and assuming all Provinces might be the same as it was in Ontario when I needed it to prove to the court that I really was being treated for a...

Does it help to say that I really understand and your biggest concern might be the same as mine was and might be worried about what happens if your level of tolerance is exceeded, (again)? I'm betting that in the long run this ends up being a kind of personally tailored therapy that gradually...

The only thing I'll add to sprout's only reinforces what you know and that being confident the bottom won't fall out even when it feels like it might, is more than half the battle.

Worked for me. Maybe it's time to watch the movie Baby Steps to get more things in perspective, or at least think of it if you've seen it. (If not to anybody else, I knew I started improving when I could see another spin on things and make jokes about myself again).

It took me so long to learn the truth behind misdiagnosis's and at least prove to myself that it wasn't me who was crazy, believe it when I say I don't really have any of the above problems anymore. I like to look at my PTSD as just unfortunate that so far it took the second half of my life to...

Over-compensating myself since your post hit a little close, you might consider being concerned after realizing that possibly it was out of character as just another step in returning to normal. (In my case I've been comfortable blaming it on prescriptions until I realized that I was apparently...

All I can think is that I did that sort of thing myself for awhile and kind of understand. It should regulate itself.

Unfortunately after my idiot GP got it in his head that I was suffering from bipolar delusions of grandeur and before retiring threatened to commit if he heard another word about my traumas since it meant I wasn't taking my medications, for me it's still hard distinguishing whether the therapy...

One can't always be right "erring on the side of caution", isn't a bad way of looking at risk analysis :)