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While the title may seem like a joke, I'm actually completely serious. Started emdr with my therapist after 6 months of stalling because I think the whole therapy setting is just, well, strange. I'm pretty good at concealing the ptsd and depression and laugh all. the. time. This makes me a...

Thanks for the welcome everyone and thanks for your advice on what is normal. It seems like a common struggle and I do like the idea of a range vs a set standard. And yes, the boundary issue with the therapist has left me thrown for a loop and wondering what's "normal" in therapy also...

Thanks for the advice!

I'll admit that I'm obsessed with the idea of being normal. My life has been a series of unfortunate events that have landed me with a ptsd diagnosis 6 months ago, though I first suspected I had ptsd almost 10 yrs ago when I was 23. Life can be great one day, month, year and then something...

Another option: go into an inpatient program and/or intensive outpatient program to stabilize some of your symptoms and use FMLA. It's possible that once you get over this roller coaster, you can go back to the same job and be the star performer you were before the flare up (sounds like you...

Nicholas, Trying to relate to your girlfriend and present in an objective manner-- I have some pretty hard hitting ptsd symptoms that has affected my marriage. I am trying my best to work on it, but the one thing that needed from my husband is space, which he hasn't respected (I'm sure out of...