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This is how it is for me, too. I have PTSD and panic disorder all rolled up into one tangled ball. I get triggered and then logic brain just shuts off and my Sympathetic nervous system goes into hyperdrive. I don't have any answers. I just reached out to someone to help me with the panic...

I think my biggest fear with the medication is that my doctor said it could make my anxiety worse before it gets better. And I'm not sure I can handle "worse" terror. That's my biggest problem. I have one set of people saying the medication (Paxil) will calm down my CNS and another camp of...

My thought during or after a panic attack or day spent ruminating and solving to feel safe: What is the point of doing all of this work if I end up still having nights of just throwing up and sheer terror? What do I do next? I know this sounds like the dumbest question, but I am SO confused...

I am on 14mg of liquid paxil. I have a huge phobia of medication. And I was also part of a forum for a looooong time all about the evils of medication. So, it's a bit hard for me to change my mind.

I really appreciate this comment. It is really, really painful!

I have been trying so many different therapists and really having a hard time finding the right one. Some say all of the evidence-based modes of treatment are garbage and to ONLY do yoga and mindfulness... some say ONLY exposure. Anyhow, I thought I found someone who was really really great...

Hi. I have been diagnosed with PTSD. But I'm having trouble getting to trauma treatment because my panic attacks, panic disorder and CONSTANT terror over the symptoms of PTSD are overwhelming. I am convinced I am insane after the PTSD breakdown last March, even though I know I'm not. I am...

Thank you for sharing this. There are two very different things being spoken about on this thread, if I'm correct. One is an actual evidence-based, medical diagnosis, and the other is not. Adrenal insufficiency that is diagnosed by a doctor is not the same as what some people call adrenal...

"Anyone else also feel like their subconscious is (or was) stuck in flight-or-fight mode (even though they consciously know they're safe)? Is there some kind of treatment for this?" This is taken straight from my own heart!! I spent the night in this state of subconscious terror even though I...

I have been in therapy (a combo of CPT and ER) and honestly it's been really hard but I have not had a sleepless night in SO LONg. These nights are filled with my biggest cognitive distortions that I can't seem to shake yet. Thoughts that say, "If you don't sleep you will end up commited to an...

I am nitpicking only because being in charge of a site for PTSD and saying a statement like, "permanent impairment" is VERY dangerous, in my opinion. I feel if something is an opinion, and not supported by evidence-based research, it should be left for personal opinion essays or comments on...

Hi. I don't see a forum dedicated to intrusive symptoms, so I hope it's ok that I am posting here. I am in therapy and doing well. Baby steps, but truly healing little by little, inch by inch. Am I still mad that it took a full 12 months since my trauma for me to find a therapist who actually...

Thanks! I can't seem to find this statement, ""the bone will stop healing and cause permanent impairment to that persons life," in the DSM V but I will absolutely look in the other recommended literature. Thanks!

additionally, considering the risk of suicide rates, stating, "the bone will stop healing and cause permanent impairment to that persons life," need to be sited and sourced. Telling someone that repeated trauma cannot be healed and will cause, "cause permanent impairment to that persons life,"...

Hello. Thank you for providing this information here. I am grateful that you linked the sources of the diagnostic criteria. I was wondering if it may be helpful to also include the sources for the other things you've stated here. It is my experience that people with PTSD have difficulties with...

I needed to read this today. Thank you so much! Can I ask which treatment you are doing (or did) to help this healing take place? I know you listed all of the coping skills, but I'm also just curious if you also did EMDR or anything else?

Thank you so much for answering. I guess the part I'm feeling alone with, is, when you think you are losing it or insane - what do you do next? I often google the symptoms of PTSD to remind myself, or go through all the things my PTSD therapist has said to reassure myself that I am not. Do...

I am working with my new PTSD therapist at untangling the misdiagnosis I received from the traumatic OCD specialist/experience. I am doing a CPT worksheet and need to untangle the belief that my PTSD symptoms are *only* in OCD. I have made great progress, but I am stuck on a few symptoms: 1)...

As with so many of you, there are so many layers to my trauma. Right now I am on my couch fighting SO HARD not to vomit. I took my medication three hours ago and need to keep it down. I have this thing that happens, and it has always happened since my trauma in 1998. Once in a while, usually...

This link may help explain better what I was trying to say: Exaggerated Fear of Danger May Be Hypervigilance in PTSD

I want to say I hear your story. I do. And I'm very thankful you shared. I am so sorry you are in a fearful situation. I am too and it is the WORST. I have cried each morning for days. And. I don't know what your "ocd loop" is. So it could be that you have OCD or it could be that you are...

I cannot thank you all enough. My husband is leaving for a week's time today and it feels like my brain is on fire. Nonstop the thought is "this will never end. this will never end. this will never end." I try to focus on what people are saying but the terror and thoughts and memories just feel...

Thank you so very much. After I was drugged, I wouldn't go near food or drinks unless I made them myself because I was sure everyone was trying to drug me and leave me for dead. CERTAIN. So, I see what you mean about treating the trauma to help the OCD because I was only able to begin eating...

Thank you so much for this. Which workbook are you referring to? My OCD symptoms are: intrusive images/thoughts, and nonstop worry that I am unsafe. Like NONSTOP some days my brain is telling me YOU ARE IN DANGER. I also doubt everything. Meaning, I have very little trust in people and doubt...

Hello. I was misdiagnosed as having OCD and the treatment for this made me way, way, worse. The person who treated me said that even though all of my intrusive thoughts and images and panic attacks were about my near death trauma, the fact that my brain wouldn't believe I wasn't crazy meant I...