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Ayesha, I see you are a staff member so you can erase the post, ban me or leave the post. If I were a moderator I sanction you this. You have every right to warn me if you think I am doing something wrong, but are you telling me that calling me a liar is being supportive of me, particularly...

Well Solara, if I am mis-attributing the effects of a bad trip on PTSD about 20 doctors also did between 1987 and 2007. I am something "special" to use your would, specifically due to the fact that none of the treatments have worked for me. If you give to that "specialness" I would. I stumbled...

I just sighed because this is the first non-confrontational post I have answered in a while. Thanks. CBT, hypnosis, EMDR, Exposure therapy, art therapy, relaxation therapy (with doctor proved tapes at home). Librium, Valium, Xanax. imiprimine, paxil, xoloft, welbutrin, are the ones I can think...

Hello Rumors, if you put the effort in copying my text into the message it is that much easier for you to quote me accurately. "Mine [PTSD] cannot be managed with therapy: I TRIED everything" is not equal to "Nothing works for me". The first statement is a statement of objective fact about the...

My purpose was countering the minimizing of the same symptoms I have by the earlier posters. You are trying to tell me that I is wrong to compare my own individual traumas to each other, in an effort to counter someone who says my greatest trauma was no trauma at all? I was trying to educated...

Abstract, I am only repeating what I was told by the VA guy and what I see from real vets on the news. I have never heard a vet on tv talk about fearful memories, but only about guilty about leaving comrades behind to fight or other non-fear related symptoms. I would suspect there would be vets...

Solara, Have I tried every therapy? Yes, yes, yes! After 38 years, yes! How long have you been treatment? I ask you this because if you have had this as long as I have, not only do get all treatments tried on you, but they are regurgitated every decade or so and promoted to you again. CBT, EMDR...

JarHed, Dr. Engdahl, a primary in the big MEG scan program at the VA in Minnesota was nice enough to spend an hour on the phone with me the other day and agreed to do a MEG scan of my brain. I told him my ideas for mapping the fear response and while he said they were not working in that...

Solara, it is a hypothetical scenario (so far). Circumcision is unethical too, as it is an unnecessary procedure done without the consent of the patient, but they do that all the time. In a more pertinent example, a doctor in Ohio did brain surgery on a guy with OCD in 2007, which seems...

Thanks for all the responses so far. JarHed, No one is trying to sell the idea to me, I am trying to sell the idea to doctors to try it on me. I have done research and while finding and destroying the areas holding the memories is not possible at this time, interrupting the fear response could...

What you sense is frustration. I come here to connect with people like me and more often than not people recently diagnosed (last decade or so) have no idea what I am talking about. I don't even like the term "PTSD" and never use it locally because it has come to mean so many things. Now I read...

I have experienced non-LSD traumas. I listed several. so I am speaking from experience. When I was being shot at repeatedly, tortured and molested, I never stopped imagining a way out. Likewise, the doctor said I was tortured. The second poster said far worse than what I said. She said an LSD...

Thanks for your responses Digger1. I changed the question to reflect your input. I ask it the way I did because I have been pursuing this for a decade and would do it if there was a 1/1000 chance. I have been like this for 38 years and knew at age 13 surgery (impairment of the fear response) was...

You are right and perhaps I should have said I can't imagine a dog helping people with symptoms like me. You message does at least tell me what use they'd have, however I don't have any of the same issues as you. Your dog seems to be being trained as a buffer tool between you and others. I have...

If you were offered an experiment brain surgery that could erase your PTSD symptoms, but could also fail and kill you, would you get the surgery. The chances of success are 10% and all other treatments have failed. Thanks for your input.

You can still find or feel happiness? Lucky you. I have not felt happiness in 38 years. When something good happens (rarely) I recognize it as good but that happy feeling never follows. So many conditions? If you poll many people here with symptoms and loss similar to mine I think you'll find...

Keifer, I can image a scenario were I could find some contentment. First, I could use examples of misfortunes of others to make it through the rest of my life and the depression (i.e., I am not the only one that got cheated: Children die at 11 of cancer). Next my PTSD is gone today. Next I can...

My trauma was very unusually and its payload was very specific, namely flashbacks and fear. I was very strong at 12 when I was drugged and tried to beat the LSD produced flashback and accompanying terror, but quickly found that while beating fear of heights, for example is possible, beating the...

I agree with Solara about misdiagnosed people, but I don't blame them: The therapists are misdiagnosing people. I have been affected for 38 years, as a very happy child with no mental/fear/avoidance issues before an LSD drugging at age 12, but directly afterwards developed symptoms reminiscent...

I hear people say it gets better each day, but mine gets worse. I hear people say suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem, but 38 years doesn't seem temporary. I can say I am not hopeless because I have PTSD alone, but I am hopeless because I have had it since age 12 and am now...

TandL's Mum, I am only responding to this because your boy is nine. I got PTSD at age 12 as a result of older boys drugging me with LSD. I have now had it for 38 years and have been deprived of a normal life including children of my own. Doctor will not tell you, but I lived it: PTSD in...

Username, I hope you are still around or will get notification of this response. I cannot strongly urge you enough to completely ignore Jagged-Angel's opinion as it is completely wrong. My past is exactly like yours except LSD was dropped in my at age 12 because older boys thought it would be...