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As of March 7th, I have officially been accepted into a doctorate of audiology program with a PhD component to become the first person in the country to combine speech pathology with audiology with the intention of providing a comprehensive continuity of care for aural rehab patients and improve...

When I started grad school, my PTSD was so bad, and so not dealt with that it created a conversion disorder, causing me to faint when I was stressed. At the end of my first semester, I was not allowed to take my finals because I was too distressed because my brother had tried to kill himself...

I know a lot of the people on this forum live in Australia and it is winter down there right now, so I was just wondering what winter is like for you guys. I live in New England and the best way to describe the weather here in general was said by Mark Twain, "If you don't like the weather in...

I have been having panic attacks lately, and my doctor has recommend anti anxiety medications, however my body has a low tolerance for medications of any kind. I cannot take benedryl, narcotic pain killers, antibiotics, anesthesia, even vitamins make me do a Linda Blair impression. So I am...

I have been on here for a month or so now, and I have found this forum really helpful. It has helped me to realize that it is not my fault that I have PTSD, that people who treat me like a leper for having it are just uneducated on the subject, or lacking kindness. It has helped me to have a...

I have a wonderful man in my life. He is so smart and funny and kind, but he is terribly incosistent in his support. It kills me because when we are together or if we are apart and he is at school, then everything is great and he is the most supportive, kind, gentle soul in the world. He...

One of my traumas stems from watching my mentally ill brother try to kill himself over and over. On Wednesday he over dosed on drugs he got off the internet and now he is in the hospital. He is doing really badly and it looks like he may have actual cerebral damage this time. His speech is...

I was diagnosed with PTSD 3 times before I accepted it. It took physical manifestation of the symptoms for me to even entertain the idea that my fathers physical and emotional abuse, and my mothers compliance with it and her generalized anxiety disorder had affected me at all. But last year...