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Maybe giving a few studies by "good researchers" related to the type of trauma you experienced, that include info about the type of therapy you're finding helpful? I think that some people with no understanding of this stuff have trouble accepting the sufferers' word on this stuff. It's almost...

50 minutes on treadmill with elevation up; planting stuff outside

p.s. I want a personal tank. The drivers here are scary. Relevant images: http://www.tank-girl.com/

My opinion... recently it's become a tribal-level issue here, not a cognitive-level one. The folks wanting a study to affirm a common sense issue won't make any progress politically no matter how powerful their results...

Whatever, then, best of luck.

I generally don't consider myself to have a defeatist attitude at all! Not sure what phrasing made you think that. I have personally had trouble with a therapist who didn't look for better treatments for me, and I got subtle feelings that she might have been thinking I was resisting working on...

Glad you found a good doctor, finally! I guess, whatever works; "treatment resistant" does imply that someone was pretty confident in some other treatment, but the medications you mention are themselves a treatment! -- so it's probably all insurance-ese and they are probably at least 10 years...

What if you looked at various people around you who are functional but not "perfect", and start thinking about the range of functionality that people survive in the "real world" around you with? "Normal" people aren't functional all the time! But how do they handle it? When someone has done...

Elliptical machine 30 minutes, a light day. Lots of stretching though! The physical therapy goddess gives me more and more stretches, and 1.5 years of those is starting to really make a difference in how mobile my shoulders, neck, etc. feel. Range of motion is really finally improving, there...

Walked 2.5 miles around a beautiful lake in a local park. Tossed treats for cats to chase.

I am glad that the heat is decreasing, @Tanishq -- it sounds terrible in the news.

30 minutes walking with friend 40 minutes on treadmill doing hills 20 minutes stretching/doing physical therapy exercises (they're really helping) 10 minutes of waving toy in front of cat

p.s. if I am reading the study's analysis correctly, some brain areas are activated in ptsd caused by all the trauma categories. Other sections weren't. Having trouble focusing on it though, it feels a bit too real and is upsetting me today...

Sorry, didn't realize that part... It does have interesting fMRI images. I hope that these will show up in free locations soon... Generally people in the U.S. can go to a public library and ask for a copy of the article to be obtained (I hope?); probably many other countries too. Lots of work...

This is an interesting new analysis showing activity changes in differing brain regions for people with ptsd from different general categories of trauma: combat-related, childhood physical/sexual abuse, and natural disasters. Different neural modifications underpin PTSD after different...

I was unable to have biological children too, possibly partly due to physical and emotional things from the trauma... hard to know for sure though. A number of ecology-related classes and the current climate issues have shifted my thinking since I was 20 quite a lot though. We're all related...

@mytai, I am very glad that you have found hope. It's ok to feel the fear; please be gentle with your fear. All your parts deserve gentleness.

Well, mine comes and goes, so of course it's normal! :geek::rolleyes::alien::bag::cool: I guess "normal" for everyone is a little different; I read a bit about people who formerly did not dissociate or have derealization, have an adult trauma, and then do. They find it very different from...

Dissociation and depersonalization and such can be very difficult to recognize in yourself, if it is sort of chronic, you are "functioning", and it is all you remember doing! Also if you've never heard anyone describe feeling similarly, the official words sound weird... I finally figured out...

When you are in college, you will likely be able to use the health care system there confidentially; it may be separate from your parents' though I am not certain that is universal; something to look into. The childhood trauma that I remember was from my brother; it was minimized by various...

Have you tried grounding exercises when this is going on? @Oasis described what sounded like grounding that my T. has been teaching me. Do you have a good therapist to work on this stuff with...

The color/warbling vision thing is definitely something I had as a kid during a period, not sure how old; I was terrified and thought it meant I was going insane. Also heard garbled voices in the middle of the night. So long ago...

I have not done Kundalini Yoga, but am in an excellent yoga class for trauma survivors right now; I'm finding it helpful to stay a bit more "present" in parts of my body. Also before that last year I have noticed tingling and difficult to describe sensations at times that did seem to related to...

@desiderata310 -- does your workplace have computer support people? Ask them to set you up an automatic backup system with a separate drive, or else to the Cloud. Automatic is good!

If PTSD is poorly understood among many people, the various problems and disorders that share some symptoms with it are probably understood even less, and there is just no public education in many places... lots of people seem to equate PTSD with "something really bad happened to me that really...