News of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Forum

Hi, I'm new here and have multiple diagnosis, the primary being BPD (30 years of crazy) and secondary psychopathy/co-morbid ASPD alongside PTSD and the development of agoraphobia and GAD.

I guess this post is simply to put my current situation and the events leading up to it in words
Plus it's reassuring to know I'm not alone in having to deal with really awful things (misery loves company).

Where to start... ok, so my PTSD ...

My trauma (life threatening, real) happened when I was 14. Repressed it. Knew something was there but couldn’t quite place a finger on it. When I was 36 it came back to me in bits and pieces. Very confusing but managed to understand it more and more. I am now 58 and still suffer from night terrors and flashbacks. The flashbacks can be difficult because it’s like one ear and one eye are in one ...

Today has been the breakthrough I've been hoping for. So many questions-so few answers was my life. Today light has shown on what was hidden under many layers of humanitity at its truest state. Some layers natural, some self constructed, while others programmed to destroy. I am posting to say I am thankful for forgiveness and for Hope. I know it may seem impossible but love will find the way if you never give up. ...

Hey,
Is having 1 second flashbacks that you dont remember a thing? I'm kinda confused as to what this is. I'm pretty sure I have repressed memories (I cant remember anything before the age of 8), so I dont know if this is connected,
Thanks,
Dawn

Hello all, adult child abuse survivor here. One of the most frustrating things I think about my trauma is that it's sometimes hard to remember it, or to remember exactly what happened, and I'm never sure if my memories are real or not. Like, what if I'm just making them up? Or what if I'm over-exaggerating them and thus giving myself PTSD based on false/amplified memories? But that's besides the point. My main concern right ...

With 9/11 approaching, my husband (married for 4 years and his 15 year son lives with us), who has PTSD, has been having horrible nightmares, flashbacks, anxiety, and hyper-vigilance. He is also taking all of this out on me. I went away on a girls' weekend the beginning of May with my high school girlfriends, one of whom is a recent cancer survivor, and he is accusing me of cheating that weekend and up until ...

How can I get better from all the trauma that I have experienced (I’m talking hundreds of events starting from when I was really young) when I have blacked out probably 90% of what has happened and only have an extremely vague recollection of things happening, and even then I don’t really know what???? I’m sick of having flashbacks that don’t make sense. I think back to my high school bullying and while it hurts ...

I am used to the guy I like keeping me at a distance, pushing me away, trying to sabotage our friendship, etc. but I've just hung in there, like a kid on a roller-coaster (haha). The other day, he accused me of not having been there for him when he was at his lowest (yet he is very good at saying 'no' to invitations to do anything, which I generally take in my stride). I ...

I think I have ptsd but haven’t been diagnosed and therapy is just opening up cans of worms I was barely ready for.

Today after being triggered by a friend who I vented to about my sexual assault, knew about the way in which it destroyed me, and how I became hyper sexual as a cause of it and extremely depressed because I had to let him go free on circumstantial evidence.

He knew it ...

Hello:
my therapist diagnosed me with bpd and mdd, but i personally think i relate more to ptsd and mdd, however, my traumas were emotional rather than physical and im afraid ill be ridiculed if i mention that as i read the DSM and the examples of traumas mentioned were only physical/sexual ones.
so is it possible to even develop ptsd from non physical traumas?