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So, after 6 years I have had another seizure, which meant calling work and saying I could not come in due to a seizure. I the went to a doctor with my partner and told him I had PTSD, I had a psychogenic none epileptic seizure, he immediately had a go at for using the term seizure because if...

So, I've recently been in hospital, I've had chronic throat problems over the last three months and my throat swelled up so badly I couldn't breathe or talk. The thing is, I had panic attacks when at the hospital and I have to say that people in the medical profession seem to have no idea how...

I'm in the UK, so when I started to feel the old symptoms of PTSD I made an appointment for counselling, and waited four months to hear back. Of course, within that four months I had lost my job and income, and my relationships were strained. I went for an assessment, they decided that I needed...

I've had a really bad run with jobs these last few years, two out of three ending due to my PTSD. I'm now starting a job working as a part time pot wash, I start today but I'm worried I can't even handle this... I also feel really brought down, I'm intelligent, have a degree, and when it comes...

So, breifly, I developed PTSD after being raped by three men. I managed for a few years with just anxiety but then started having flashbacks when around my line manager as he seemed to have some kind of simularity to one of my rapists. I was placed under a different line manager and was working...

So, EMDR worked brilliantly for me. The main affects being that I have been able to have sex and that I don't have panic attacks when people touch me. I have been dealing with a lot of more anger than I've ever experienced. I've been taking a two minute break from therapy to 'recover' as it was...

Yeah, for the first day of my period and three days after I have a lot of problems with self harm and suicidal thoughts, and then it just starts to ease off. I've been given the mini pill but I am starting to worry that if I go on it I will have these kind of feelings through out the month.

Why is it that I am taking such huge leaps in my personal life lately but I still go into a meeting at work and just can't talk, literally can not talk. I just can not express myself. I just feel so powerless against my employers. My life is going so well but then I get to work and I get...

A question for the guys or even couples out there. Has anybody ever had a problem with delayed ejaculation? My boyfriend can't ejaculate when he's with me. I'm hoping that it's because we haven't been together for long and it'll go away when we get more comfortable with one another. But I also...

Yeah, over three years after getting out of an abusive relationship and I felt ready again. He's a nice guy that i've been seeing for the last six weeks. It didn't seem too soon because he was the right guy. It went fantastically. None of the things I thought would cause a flashback did. He ran...

So, the last few months I have been on this site writing quite regularly about what's going on in my life and seeking advice and guidance. I have had the wonderful experience of gaining insite from people who actually understand my position and hopefully I have also been able to give advise to...

So, the brief history (and I've posted on here about these issues before) is that I was in an abusive relationship and was raped. It's been three and a half years and I've not had a relationship in that time. Though I did muck around a little with an old friend when drunk once. Now, i've met a...

Yeah, so I am having a stressed day because I am visiting the parents and I can't stand that for much and I've reached my breaking point. I've got a friend and she lives between my parents and my current house and I told her a week before traveliing when I would be around and when i'd be able...

Has anybody ever been to a grievance for discrimination against disability. I'm really nervous. I disassociate when I get called into a meeting. I'm starting to wish I hadn't done this. Has anybody ever been through this?

So, I like this guy but we've only just started going out. I'm not sure if I want this to be a serious relationship but the one thing that keeps playing on my mind is how much I want to reclaim my sex life. I've had enough of this being a big thing and yes I will keep my boundaries and keep...

I'm really struggling with the fact that I'm about to lose my job. I'm refusing to work in a situation which causes me triggers without a safety plan put in place so that if I have a flashback I can remove myself from the area to deal with it. But work won't allow me to do this. I'm signed off...

I just want to share this, I started writing a novel about a man recovering from rape and starting a healthy relationship. It's a bit more complicated than that of course but that's how it starts. All happy endings. Anyway, a few months ago I told myself enough is enough and I gave myself till...

So I'm moving out in a week thank god. But I am still really pissed off this morning because it's 11:45 and there I am relaxing and watching a little t.v. when spanking noises from the room next to mine where my 52 year old landlord is spanking his girlfriend. So, I have to stop enjoying my t.v...

Yeah, so I've got a date. And it's one of those things that just happened. Six months ago I thought I was ready for dating and I joined a website, I went out two times with two boys who were actually perfectly nice and acceptable guys but one told me he didn't feel a spark (I agreed) the other I...

This one is hard to explain but bare with me. I started working at a shop at a ferry port and four months in I started having severe anxiety, unlike most times when I go through a bad patch it wasn't over in a couple of days or week but last several months before I decided I needed to take time...

So, I'm having EMDR at the moment. I have a few weeks of the therapy left but I've been thinking that maybe afterwards I want to have sex therapy. I've been afraid of dating or even letting any man close to me, even as a friend for the last four years and I think it's because I have always had...

So I've been having problems with work. And I've just been signed off with my PTSD and general stress. I feel like I'm doing well now, I'm in the therapy and I've just found a new better place to live and i've realized I have to find a new job, that this was a fight I should have let go of a...

I'm a lodger. I really need to move out of this house is filthy there is mold all over the place, flies and slug infestations. Its dirty and my landlord (live in) is really really loud and makes sexist statements. I hate it here and I regretted moving in the second that I did. I have decided...

(Warning: Some pretty raw confessions below.) I wrote a few days ago about how hard it is to deal with noise because it makes me angry. But now i've started to realize these angry reactions are new things to me, the way I'm talking is more aggressive and louder, the gestures I make more violent...

So, whenever there are certain noises I go into a complete rage. I either have to get out of the house to avoid the noise or I put in earplugs and as that doesn't usually block it I end up self harming because if I don't then I think I'd turn the aggression against the noise maker. So sometimes...