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My daughter is 17, and I've had full/sole custody of her the entire time. Her biological father wasn't in the picture until he was able to get visitation rights about 4 years ago. He completed a bunch of classes, went to therapy, and got supervised visits for 2 years, the past 2 years have...

I was diagnosed with PTSD probably 10 years ago, and have had years of therapy, medication, etc. I've pretty much learned to manage my anxiety and I know what upsets me, so I stay away from it when I can. I grew up taking care of my bipolar mother who committed suicide over a decade ago, which...

I feel like I'm going to throw up. My daughter is grown and in high school, I have full legal and physical custody of her, and my ex husband is not involved in our lives. I was granted by a court 7 years ago to move to a different state and my ex husband is not to know my address, my phone...

Background - I went no contact with my father about a year ago. I have not spoken to my sister in 5 years. I had moved about 10 hours away from both of them, and the already broken relationships got worse. My sister, I just cannot deal with, she's spoiled rotten, my father buys her...

A little background. My mother died when I was 29, a couple weeks after my birthday. She took her own life after a lifelong battle with bipolar disorder. It was really rough. My father refused to acknowledge my mother's mental health issues, and she really never got proper care. When she...

I basically told my father last week that I did not want to have anymore contact with him because he makes me feel like crap. He says mean things to me, he's passive aggressively cruel to me, and the history is so maddening that I can't take it anymore. Years and years of both abuse and...

Recent events have made me furious with my family even more so then I have been in the past, and I can't keep doing this back and forth with them where I feel like crap for days on end for even talking to them. I've made the decision to go fully no contact instead of the limited relationship...

I recently went on a job interview for a health insurance company for a computer programmer job. Before the interview even started, they had me fill out this really lengthy application. The very last page asked if I had any disabilities with a very long list of things, a few which I have, but...

My father has a habit of really being patronizing with my accomplishments, and constantly thinks anything I do isn't good enough. I was making 6 figures without a college degree as a tech analyst, and he would say I just got lucky, and maybe they just had to hire a few girls. I was good at my...

Anyone try this for PTSD symptoms like anxiety and depression? I suffer from both rheumatoid arthritis and eosiniphilic esophagitis, and my doctor recently put me on a diet for histamine intolerance. I have food allergy issues, and foods high in histamine seemed to do the most damage to me. I...

I had issues with this when I was a little girl, like 5 or 6. It was due to high stress in my case, and was diagnosed as Trichotillomania. I had pulled so much hair out that I had to keep a very short haircut for a couple years to keep me from pulling it out. There would be piles of hair by...

I have an ongoing theme in my life that makes my PTSD worse at times, and that is my struggle to have things be "perfect" as kind of a means to prevent future problems. I grew up with parents that wanted everything to seem perfect, even though it was far from it. I had to have perfect grades...

I have raised my now teen daughter since she was a baby, mostly on my own. The most help I've gotten when was I got remarried, my husband is an amazing step-dad. I've chosen to work from home over the years to be able to be around all the time for her. I've made sure she has a good life, and...

My mother in law lives 8 hours away, so I don't have to deal with her much. She's nice, but is incredibly passive aggressive and if she doesn't get her way will throw adult tantrums. Recently, she asked to move in with us, claiming my office as "her" bedroom. I run my own business so my...

I was laid off from my high paid tech job about a month ago. I had been there 10 years. I was told it was because of the change in the political environment, and the company had to cut jobs to prepare for the future. My entire department of 8 people were let go. I was really upset and...

I'm in absolute shock. I was supposed to have a meeting today at 10am, and instead I was called by my HR dept to tell me that they eliminated my entire department. I was being laid off. I couldn't even hear the woman speaking to me, because I was having a panic attack and she was just reading...

A bit of backstory - one of my daughter's friends at school committed suicide in October. Since then, the school has been what I would consider over-vigilant about suicide prevention. That's all we hear about now. They send home mailers almost once a month, they have had at least 3 class...

My doctor put me on 20 mg of Prozac recently after my therapist wanted me to get an as needed medication for my panic attacks. My doctor said that it might be better to put me on a low dose SSRI until I can get the anxiety in check. Well, it's been a week and I feel weird. I feel like I...

My therapist wants me to try taking an as needed anxiety medication to be able to manage my panic attacks better. I have tried almost every OTC/Herbal/Holistic option there is and nothing has helped me when I'm in panic mode. I've tried buspar in the past with very negative results. Also...

To make a long story short, my ex husband, whom I was only married to for 3 years, and together with off and on for 10 because we share a now grown daughter. He was severely abusive. The last day I ever spoke to him, he fractured my face in several spots, which I still have a scar above my...

Any coffee drinkers? Have you ever quit drinking coffee and noticed a change in anxiety symptoms?

I recently made the move to cut all ties with my family, with the support of my therapist. They have been really awful people to me since I was a little kid. I was having a really tough time, because every couple of months they were doing something that they knew would hurt me, and then turned...

My apartment complex is surrounded by 3 huge man made lakes that separate each of the buildings. It's pretty humid where I live to begin with because we are next to a major river and close to the ocean, so that brings out a lot of critters in the summer. I've always loved catching things as a...

New here, and already posted a thread in the Discussions forum. I'll introduce myself, I was diagnosed with PTSD right after my 30th birthday. I had been in a pretty violent marriage, and then witnessed my mother's death while I was getting out of the marriage. It was definitely not a great...

Hi, I'm new here. I was officially diagnosed with PTSD about 6 years ago after I witnessed my mother's death, and I also had just left a physically abusive and violent marriage after 12 years. I had a really difficult time coping with both, but after a few years of therapy, a new happy &...