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So, after 6 years I have had another seizure, which meant calling work and saying I could not come in due to a seizure. I the went to a doctor with my partner and told him I had PTSD, I had a psychogenic none epileptic seizure, he immediately had a go at for using the term seizure because if...

So, I've recently been in hospital, I've had chronic throat problems over the last three months and my throat swelled up so badly I couldn't breathe or talk. The thing is, I had panic attacks when at the hospital and I have to say that people in the medical profession seem to have no idea how...

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It's escalating now, my therapist called me this morning and said that I didn't fit the criteria to have EMDR on the NHS. I'm going to talk with her boss today, but I can't believe how much of a fight it is to get the right treatment. At the moment I would say the PTSD is coming second to the...

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Thank you all for your support. I'm afraid private is not an option, I lost my last job due to PTSD, keep crying at interviews, and not allowed benefits, until something gets better I can't find work, but I can't get better until I get work ( can't even afford prescriptions at the moment). And...

Hi Cactus Annie, EMDR is a PTSD therapy I've had before, it doesn't work immediately, in my experience the symptoms get worse for a few weeks and then there's a break through, when I've worked on a trauma with it before there was a substantial long lasting effect, it is very tough in the first...

I know Bristol,1485, it is awful. The system is failing. Though I have to say, I do find exercise is good at getting me out my mind and into my body, but lots of days, that's really difficult. But still for that to be the only thing a GP suggests, that's ridiculous.

I'm in the UK, so when I started to feel the old symptoms of PTSD I made an appointment for counselling, and waited four months to hear back. Of course, within that four months I had lost my job and income, and my relationships were strained. I went for an assessment, they decided that I needed...

I've had a really bad run with jobs these last few years, two out of three ending due to my PTSD. I'm now starting a job working as a part time pot wash, I start today but I'm worried I can't even handle this... I also feel really brought down, I'm intelligent, have a degree, and when it comes...

I feel like I want to add a postscript to this, We've been together four months now. Our sex life is healthy, I only had a mini panic attack once. We are very happy and comfortable with each other and are about to leave for our first holiday together.

So, breifly, I developed PTSD after being raped by three men. I managed for a few years with just anxiety but then started having flashbacks when around my line manager as he seemed to have some kind of simularity to one of my rapists. I was placed under a different line manager and was working...

So, EMDR worked brilliantly for me. The main affects being that I have been able to have sex and that I don't have panic attacks when people touch me. I have been dealing with a lot of more anger than I've ever experienced. I've been taking a two minute break from therapy to 'recover' as it was...

I have bad reactions to estrogen so a progesterone only pill is the only option.

Yeah, for the first day of my period and three days after I have a lot of problems with self harm and suicidal thoughts, and then it just starts to ease off. I've been given the mini pill but I am starting to worry that if I go on it I will have these kind of feelings through out the month.

Hi there, I had a lot of trouble with a CBT therpist who just didn't get that I didn't have the lexicon to discribe my feelings. The reason for this is because having been through a lot of traumatic experiences the words have entirely different meaning than they would for other people and also...

I tried, they don't listen.

I think it's the fact that other people are in control of what is a big slice of my life. And it's also the fact that I can't seem to communicate to them what I need because they've already prejudged the situation. I need chaos, I need a busy job, I need to be run off my feet. That's what I...

Why is it that I am taking such huge leaps in my personal life lately but I still go into a meeting at work and just can't talk, literally can not talk. I just can not express myself. I just feel so powerless against my employers. My life is going so well but then I get to work and I get...

Make sure you have a little cafe or something to go to after ever session and just sit for a while having a cup of tea and something to eat. You need to give your brain time to go from EMDR mode to normal fuctioning.

I do think it is me who has the problem with it. I'm trying to be supportive and to just wait it out and to not pressurize him. I think it's just that I waited three and half years after rape for sex and I always thought it was something I would never be able to have again. I think when I found...

Firstly, it is easy to attribute one thing to another. So do get checked out by a doctor to make sure those pains and sickness isn't the start of an intestinal problem. Yes, I get pain that related to my flashbacks, and I have thrown up during flashbacks. I have been reading a really good book...

Well no, my boyfriend has not got PTSD. I'm the one with PTSD from rape. He also isn't on any medications. When I said sexual trauma with things like this it can be something as small as parents making sex out to be 'dirty' or a previous girlfriend chiding him. I really wasn't thinking sexual...

A question for the guys or even couples out there. Has anybody ever had a problem with delayed ejaculation? My boyfriend can't ejaculate when he's with me. I'm hoping that it's because we haven't been together for long and it'll go away when we get more comfortable with one another. But I also...