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How do you tell whether something you want to achieve is realistic in recovery? I struggle with limitations that PTSD causes. Recovery improves your life so much but doesn't cure you...how does being incurable impact recovery?

I just got this job. Returning to work has been one of the "ultimate" milestones I've worked towards since developing severe PTSD. I've worked really hard and been lucky enough to get to a point where I am going against how I feel and taking actions based on what I know. I know it will result in...

WHATEVER RECOMMENDATION I CHOSE TO GO WITH MAY BE THE ONLY BOOK/SITE/ETC MY HUSBAND READS. He doesn't understand it at all. He's become resentful, frustrated, angry, and bitter. He says things like "you need to just let it go" "Fear is a choice": "You've been going to pros for over a year...its...

My entire life for some reason I have always thought, in the back of my mind, that I could become "good" enough to make my mother proud and love me. I mean even as an adult...married with my own family...I have reached out to her to somehow "show" her I am worthy of her love. She isn't the...

Hi, I'm Jessie. I have severe PTSD. My first memory is being raped at 5 yrs in front of a mirror while having to repeat horrific things about myself and "watching." We (my brother and I) were severly physically abused and tortured. We were forced to eat rancid food, vomit, alcohol, etc. This...