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Started therapy in August 2011. Diagnosed with PTSD in October 2011. So almost a year, but we haven't started going over the trauma.

I know my anxiety as well comes from being feeling unsafe....but I know I am safe, but my body doesn't want to stop feeling that way. It is like it is addicted to that unsafe feeling because it is scared of everything bad happening again. I still have to talk with my T about even trying...

Sorry to hear that. But I am sure you T believes you and will help you connect more with it to process the memories.

I wasn't considering it for trauma therapy. I was hoping it would help for the anxiety on a daily basis. I thought a hypnotherapist would be able to just address more of the self talk/ inanity that goes on without touching the trauma stuff. Although it does make sense if they really cannot...

Has anyone tried hypnotherapy along with talk therapy to help reduce the symptoms? I am becoming more and more interested in it and was wondering what the success rate with it is.

I love working out. I workout five days a week and I force myself not to exercise the other two days to give my body time to rest. I love doing HIT training at home and I do go the gym as well and lift weights or run on the treadmill or other machines. Exercising and eating right really helps...

Am looking for friends who are suffers in the Augusta, GA area. Would be more comfortable speaking with people online first and then after a while getting together for support.

Wow, those are pretty much the same thoughts I have with mine- expect I am just coming to the "he is on my side stage"! Love seeing the progression and gives me hope that therapy does get better with time.

I've had it happen as well. Even if I am in session and think I kind of understand what is being talked about, usually hours or even days later I will have a OMG moment when everything comes to together fully.

I have shared it with a few friends and family. On Facebook, I share information about PTSD posts I like and I know people see it because I found out another one of my friends from high school has it and from a similar situation as well and we began messaging about it. But, I haven't stated it...

My ex is from the Middle East and we lived there for three years. Also, I have tried to a lot of other Middle Eastern countries and to a good number of other countries around the world. In his country it wouldn't violate any of their boundaries. A lot of Asian/Middle Eastern culture will talk...

Can you write it down and hand it or email it to your therapist? Writing it down also might help managing the symptoms as well. I have found I'll write about it, need to sleep for a good day or two, but then after that all the symptoms are not as prevalent for a little while and are more...

I think it does make sense that a part of us would like to die and our body is telling us to let it go. I have had the same urges as you and I more than likely wouldn't kill myself.

I would just start in small increments of like 5 minutes at a time with what Chondra suggested above- sun salutations. Once you get into it, you might want to do it longer. But I go through moods like that as well, when I don't want to do it. I set a timer for 5 minutes and make myself do it...

Here are a few videos with poses that I find help. Tara Stiles also has yoga DVDs at Walmart that I like. <Videos removed: Please place them in the media section.>

It does help with that as well. After doing yoga for a little bit, I find my mental clarity to be better and it helps to keep the negative thoughts somewhat in check, and calm the mind. There are days at work when my mind if getting the best of me and I work for a major retail company. In the...

I use yoga and don't just use one kind. I have experimented with a bunch of different kinds and mix it up and use different types for how I am feeling. How I started getting into yoga was by just buying some yoga DVDs at Walmart and going through them and learning the names of the poses and...

So, do you want to continue with therapy? I have quit therapy with my therapist through email at least twice and after sometime- usually a couple of days email back saying, I would still like to continue therapy and at the time though I didn't need it. I understand what you mean by the...

I have been using 5-HTP for three months and it does work to help with anxiety, intrusive thoughts, and depression. Three weeks ago, I noticed it stopped working like it used. I did some research online and when you notice the symptoms coming back is when you need to stop taking it because your...

I have to sleep with all the doors opened (including the closet door) and the shade open. If I close the shade at all. I usually have a hard time going and staying asleep. Also, if anything is moved around in the room, I can't go to sleep.

When people offer to take you out for a meal and you freak out/make lame excuses not to go because the thought of sitting in a restaurant scares the s**t out of you.

Actually, did say that to mine when my T told me I has PTSD and that I dissociate in therapy at first. Took me a good month or two to actually see the symptoms and get out of denial.

I haven't yet. I want to. But when I get in there, my mind goes completely blank and I don't say even 1/4 of the stuff I planned on saying. When I do think of it, I debate with myself about saying it because I don't want to bother the therapist with it. That is my thinking--I know I need to say...

I have the same problem. My ex's car is a black Expedition. And any large black car that looks like it from a decent starts increasing my stress levels and blurred vision. Although, it has gotten better with time but it is still hard.

That is interesting. I haven't had to do it. But it sounds like it could be of much use. I might start doing it for myself.