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I feel anxiety and fear before my therapy sessions too. I feel like I will be judged or that I would somehow need to justify how I'm feeling as if others would see me as a messed up person not worthy of positive attention. I have a fear that my experience will be invalidated that it's all in my...

Welcome to the forum. I'm new here too and I've found a lot of helpful info and support.

I also experience this every day. The reaction is so automatic and often I feel like I'm out of my body when I get triggered.

I have had verbal tics most of my life when I'm stressed, scared, restless, or uncomfortable. They were a coping mechanism for me and consist of nonsense words blurted out. But it only happens when I'm with my immediate family and I tend to suppress that (and everything else) in public. My...

Welcome to the forum. I too have had PTSD all of my life but was diagnosed recently so i can definitely relate. This forum has been helpful for me on my journey though for me it's only just begun and it's so difficult.

I can definitely relate. I've been doing the same thing for many many years.

For me it got to the point where I just felt an uncontrollable anger rise up and I ended up losing control in her office and I felt like I was in my childhood before my father. She also used some of the same phrases my father used (something that came up in therapy) that triggered me daily. I...

I also have missing blocks of memory of my childhood and dissociated a lot throughout my life as a coping mechanism. I feel like I've missed most of my life. Some of these blocked memories of violent abuse often result in night terrors and occasionally nightmares for me. Working with a therapist...

Thank you. So far it has been helpful.

I am grateful that I'm alive today and in recovery And also grateful to have a loving and supportive wife and family.

Hi my name is Ian and I was recently diagnosed with PTSD from birth trauma (Respiratory Distress Syndrome) as well as childhood trauma (verbal, emotional, psychological, and physical) at the hands of my alcoholic abusive father. I tried to suppress it throughout my life and hoped that if I did...