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"Mommy, I am so sorry I said all those bad things about you and Dad! I don't ever want to hurt you!" Those are the sentiments I woke up with this morning... feeling so ashamed for saying anything bad about my mom. I'm recalling how it was always like walking on eggshells around my mom... because...

Does anybody else feel like they've spent half of their life 'surviving' and the other half recovering? Why couldn't I have long ago been able to recognize the traumatic life I grew up under and then been able to say, "Well, THAT happened!" and just move on? Why couldn't I just 're-invent'...

Why is this so hard for me to say (or write?) I've survived the slow recall of my childhood rape. It was a repressed memory that only began to come back after I was married for the first time. Even then, my very first flashback wasn't exactly what I admitted out loud to a therapist. No... the...

I just read about something I never heard of... cPTSD! It has a name (though apparently not accepted here in the US.) Now it makes sense...why the best psychologist I ever had (and lost due to insurance issues) told me that the bi-polar disorder was a misdiagnosis and what I had was PTSD. She...

I happened to find this interesting quote when reading about some high peak mountain climbers who faced traumatic, life threatening situations. "While retelling such stories might bring up potentially distressing memories, Susan Pease Banitt (author of 'The Trauma Toolkit: Healing PTSD From the...

Hello, I just joined about 40 minutes ago. I have suffered from PTSD for very many years, though it wasn't until 2009 that I was correctly diagnosed. I also suffer from bi-polar type 2. As an infant thru age 6 or 7 I was molested and at age 9 or 10 I was once left with a teenage boy who raped...