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I have noticed lately that I am pulling back from people and from self care activities. I feel like when I try to reach out that I am not taken seriously. My energy is too low to want to do much of anything. I'm struggling just to get out of beds some mornings. So I am stuck mostly with my...

I had my first taste of EMDR therapy yesterday. I added more detail to my therapist over my assault. The man choked and smothered me, which was always a phobia of mine to begin with. The memory of it and talking about it gave me that feeling of being suffocated. I didn't realize how bad that...

I keep going to this dark little place in my mind where I just don't have the energy to deal with anything anymore. I have a feeling that people are tired of hearing that from me in my family, so I don't want to talk about it at home. It feels so much easier to just lie and say I will be okay...

I had been raped by a man who was supposed to be my friend in my dorm in 2008. It was a very complicated thing and was an international issue. I made a report and went through the court process from 2009 to 2013. In the end he got two years probation. I still haven't healed from all that...

I had an official diagnosis in January while placed in a mental health hospital after having uncontrollable suicidal thoughts. I have always suffered from depression, but got ptsd after being raped in my dorm room by a friend in 2008. This past December I saw a man who looked very much like...