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This is my first thread, so pardon me if I put it in the wrong place. I had a random memory and thought it might be interesting to toss around. Have you ever found yourself in a situation where having PTSD seemed to help you react to an emergency better than other people? Or maybe the opposite...

I am like this too. It's hard to make me angry, but when I am people have said that they're afraid of me. My husband will cringe like I'm about to hit him, even though I have NEVER hit him. I guess it's a look on my face. I guess I do this disassociating stuff to avoid getting angry. My dad was...

An online friend pushed me into telling her about the sexual abuse in my family, then she said that my silence was as bad as my aunt's because it let the abusers get away with it. My aunt directly put her daughters in compromising, weird positions with young male family members, and that did...

I have a prescription for this that I am supposed to take three times a day for hand and foot tremors. I stopped taking it at night because I noticed that it would give me these graphic-type dreams that another poster mentioned. Later, I randomly discovered that it was used for PTSD. I still...

I hate it when people ask me to tell them what's going on when I'm having a flashback. When my husband asks I lie. When my therapist asks I usually only tell her a small piece of it. How can anyone expect you to describe all of that?

Last night I had a horrifying dream. It was ridiculous, really, but at the time I was asleep, I was horrified. I dreamt that I had accidentally texted an online friend that she and I were "best friends" and then she started texting me every day and expecting me to jump online and immediately...

@coco9 Hi Coco! What I have is a rare disease, but it is very much like MS. Good to meet a friend who understands both angles!

@intothelight That's a good way to look at it. Thank you.

These lists were very helpful to read. Especially the regular, everyday items. I am new to PTSD peer environments, so I hadn't realized that other people also had scores of everyday items that triggered them. I don't believe that I am at the point where I have a definable "list" but I can try...

I found this thread very helpful. I also don't have a single event and can't trace it back. My mom was been diagnosed with bipolar disorder (I assume bipolar 1) and has never taken medication for it, but she has had shock treatment. Some of my first memories were of her telling me and my (now...

Hello! I am a 39 year old married woman with a toddler, dogs, cats, a house. I have a degenerative neurological disease that leaves me technically disabled, but at this point that doesn't have much of an impact on my life. Sometimes I can't drive and need help around the house. I got long term...