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Awesome, thanks!

Yeah, this is a pattern. Abuse by both my parents is what caused my ptsd and my parents both have mental illness. I've never heard a diagnosis for either of them but they're both pretty messed up. My father probably has some form of autism. My mother has something severe. I've heard a lot of...

Thanks! I have never heard of the lemon juice thing. I'll have to look into that. Did you notice the turmeric helped right away or did it take a while to build up like the lemon juice?

I've read that curcumin(an extract from turmeric) can treat ptsd. Has anyone tried this instead of or in addition to other medications? Would you recommend it? Thanks!

I still haven't found anyone who's tried them, but if I do I'll post about it.

Has anyone tried these? They're new wristbands that vibrate and are supposed to use bilateral stimulation to calm your fight or flight response. I'm trying to decide whether these actually work before investing in a pair. If you have experience with them positive, negative, or neutral please...

Interesting. I don't know much about ecstasy. The article refers to this treatment as a being in the category of psychedelic assisted therapy? I never though ecstasy was supposed to be psychedelic.

Sorry to hear this happened! The above quote makes me think this was about a language barrier. If you had a hard time understanding him, chances are he had a hard time understanding you. That is not an excuse though. It's his job to be able to communicate with patients well. I couldn't...

This is very similar to my situation. My mother used to keep people from being willing to listen to me whenever it looked like I was about to get up the courage to ask an adult for help getting me out of my abusive family situation by convincing them I had said the most hurtful stuff possible...

Thanks everyone for all the info! I'm going to look at all that stuff and then hopefully get my insurance worked out soon to see a therapist again. Thanks for sharing! Can I ask what got rid of these symptoms? Was it generally time to heal and therapy or did you find anything else had a more...

I was already aware of those differences, which is why I phrased it as "pseudo-tourrette's" rather than Tourrette's, because the average person dealing with me doesn't realize they're not dealing with someone with Tourrette's. Thanks for the other info though.

I've been diagnosed with PTSD and no other mental illnesses. I'm starting to think that some of my symptoms are conversion disorder though. I'm waiting to get my insurance worked out and hope to start back with therapy soon so maybe I will get some answers then. Does anyone know of good...

Welcome! Some high schools have nurses or counselors who could connect you with a therapist. Maybe check with your school. Maybe your mom would be more likely to listen to an adult from your school? Also, what Esterio said about trying to talk to her when you are not in a state of panic. I'm...

Congrats! That's wonderful news!

Back when I was in therapy I would write down bullet points of stuff I wanted to talk about and take it with me to therapy. This helped me share stuff I was reluctant to. Partly, it helped me remember stuff and partly it was a way to keep from struggling to find the right words in the moment. It...

I don't but I was also thinking of getting into compliance. I found an organization called the Compliance Certification Board and I was wondering if a certification would help. I'm going to try to get in touch with some people who have a talk about this at my school and I'll let you know if I...

That's a good point. The U.S. has more lawyers than law jobs right now. I hear employment is better in certain fields like medicine and tech.

If you decide to come here you might want to look into groups of lawyers who do pro bono work for people arriving at airports. A number or groups like that formed recently. You might not end up needing them but maybe it would help you feel safer if you had a contact ready in case something went...

Congrats on your acceptance Elle! I'm currently in my final semester of law school in the U.S. and have PTSD also. I'll tell you for sure you can do it! Here's a bit about my experience and some advice based on that: I had PTSD from child abuse and stalking but not affiliated with school, so I...

I like to keep a weapon on my key-chain. Then I always make sure my key-chain is on my nightstand before I go to sleep. Since my type of PTSD makes me forgetful, that helps me make sure I never fall asleep with the keys in the door.

Basically, they think they may be able to figure out how to make meds last longer in the brain so you will need less to have the same effect for longer. They based this off of a study of why LSD lasts so long but they're not advocating using LSD. The idea is to engineer psych meds in the future...

I had a similar childhood. You are a hero to whoever was in that stuff you reported. I hope that whoever finds stuff like that of me as a kid reports it too. It would make such a big difference to me to get that stuff taken down, traced and the people behind it prosecuted.

Usually I can stop bad dreams by figuring out what they mean, but not always.

I read a book on lucid dreaming once because I wanted to learn how. Even though I read the whole book I was never able to. Some people are more predisposed to it than others. Apparently there are devices designed to partially but not totally wake you and these are supposed to make it easier to...

I hope 8 sessions will be a good start that will give you an idea of what type of therapy to go with if you feel you need more after that. Not sure of your work/health care situation but maybe if the therapist decides you need more than 8 you will get more than 8? - I hope so at least!