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Here's the link to the specific page I was talking about, but I think you should still read through all of their material. It was a great help to us and it may be very beneficial to you as well. http://www.ptsd.va.gov/public/family/effects-ptsd-family.asp

Hello and welcome! As a sufferer, I can tell you that I often times push those who want to help me away from me. It's not intentional, just part of the PTSD issue (isolating oneself). To be supportive of him means you've also got to be supportive of yourself. You need to understand that you are...

I think @SamBBC deserves to be heard out personally, but I also think the facts need to be presented as they truly are and not as media hype.

I've certainly been triggered and still am by media and news when it comes to certain things, such as the Ferguson, MO issues, civil rights issues and gay marriage opponents. But PTSD isn't caused by just merely watching TV or social media. It may induce anxiety among other things, but not the...

I agree with greenleaf in that a clarification needs to be made here.

I'm certainly learning stretching, but sometimes it still feels like pushing. Like right now I want to get outside and finish picking leaves up, get soaker hoses down in the garden and just tidy things up outside. But with everything going on in the news right now my brain is fuzzy and I'm...

Thought I'd add that while I've been trying to do this, I've had some successes but a lot of steps taken backwards as well.

So both my T and Psychiatrist want me to start "stretching" myself, not "pushing", to be more active and involved especially now that I've been on my meds for a while now and have developed various tools and awareness. This is such a new concept for me I'm having problems with it. I'm so used to...

Can't say I've had the nightmares, but I could easily see why. For me, now that we are getting to the core of things, I tend to have worse days after therapy than on non-therapy days.

I was surfing FaceBook and saw this post in relation to depression, but I thought it fit well for sufferers of PTSD as well. Plus, it made me laugh so I wanted to share it. "When people tell someone who is clinically depressed to "get over it", it makes me want to break their legs with a...

Yup, I feel that way too. I want to just pretend but then I find my volunteer duties as minimal as they are overwhelming at times. Luckily a mistake here or there doesn't spell the end of me with this small organization.

I can certainly relate to your angry outburst. Hello and welcome.

I'd say that's good to have empathy for your younger self. However, I'm curious if your wanting to write about your story is based upon a need to share it and be heard, or simply to be understood, or something entirely different. When I started to share, I discovered I was seeking understanding...

Thanks, just didn't know if this was a normal reaction or not to being sick and having PTSD. Seems it is. I was shocked how quickly I escalated yesterday from being fine to just pure emotion and rage.

I currently have pleurisy and pneumonia and am on tons of meds above and beyond my PTSD meds. My brain is so foggy all the time now and I feel so worn out, yet despite an emptiness of thought nothing but anger and rage seem to come from the medicine head state. I thought I was disassociating the...

Yup, I've certainly ignored my gut instinct with excusing behaviors with thoughts like "they are just stressed" or "once the new boss gets here things will be different." I soldiered up and kept going despite my gut telling me things weren't going to change. The job I'm referring to was...

For me, it was a natural reaction to the dreams/nightmares I was having. The anxiety caused by them made my mornings and days hell on earth emotionally. Sometimes, I still awaken in panic attacks and don't remember the dreams at all but I am anxious, angry and thinking about the past. For me...

Sending you hugs and encouragement!

I'm curious how many of you are dealing with a frozen state, where you just don't want to do anything at all. Also curious how it has changed your life and what you are doing to counteract it. For me, I used to be very fit and active with long lists of daily things I wanted done and I almost...

For me, it's been my psychoanalyst, psychiatrist and this forum. They've all served different roles. My psychoanalyst has helped me to start reaching some of the core issues that I would never have found on my own. The psychiatrist is only concerned about treating the symptoms as opposed to the...

Hello and welcome!

I've been there many, many times. It took my husband a lot of resistance to finally read about PTSD. Partly because he is so busy, but partly I think because he thought he understood it when in fact there was a lot more to it than he knew, including his Experiencing secondary trauma reactions as...

Since my last trauma, I've found myself talking about it and slipping into present tense often. It happens socially and during therapy. However, I've noticed that it's happening far less frequently now and when I'm thinking about things I am starting to once in a while think about them as if the...

I understand and feel your pain. The spin I put on it is that while you may feel like you aren't doing anything productive (earning money, leaving the apartment, etc...), you are listening to yourself and hopefully nurturing yourself through this rough patch. By doing so, you are being...

I understand your wanting more information for sure. I find myself second guessing the last trauma and wondering if it was really that bad at my job. Fortunately, all 4 of my ex-bosses (all fired while I was there in 4 years) said I was overworked, underpaid and undervalued. The one person who...