Could I Have PTSD???

Hey,
Umm.... there's a few problems with the whole going to the doctors thing. My dad won't take me, we don't have a family doctor, and I'm terrified of doctors.
Anyways, things have been okay lately, I haven't had a dizzy spell since Thursday.
Well, I have to get going.

~Jamie~

Hi Jamie,

at first I wasn't going to jump in on this post because "Sad" is doing a great job of posting w/ you (sorry "Sad" i forgot the rest of your post name) and I didn't want to butt in but then I saw where you are having dizzy spells. Are you by chance not eating again or having issues w/ your eating in general again? If you are not eating or throwing up or anything to those effects when it comes your eating ....I know once before you talked about not eating...can't recall if you said you were throwing up or not....but if you are doing any of those types of things again....dizzy spells are a sign of that.

Just a thought. I just wanted to jump in here w/ that. If I can be of more help feel free to ask but otherwise I'll let you and "Sad" talk!! Take Care...always thinking of you and always hoping you are ok. I just happened to go down all the forums today instead of the few I usually stick too and saw yours here...........

-Angel

Hey,
Thanks for posting! Umm... I haven't really been having eating "issues" lately. I haven't for a while now. There are days that I just don't feel like eating lunch, but I've been eating a lot lately. So much that I'm actually putting weight on again. I wanna get back down to around 130, which means I have to lose almost 10 lbs again. I can't seem to keep the weight that I lose off anymore. I used to be able to very easily.
Well, anyways, I have to get going.

~Jamie~

Hi Jamie

Why are you terrified to go to the doctors?

If your family cannot take you , what about just going to a walk in clinic? You don't need a doctor to go to one of those?

Hey,
The reason that I'm so terrified of doctors is because I had to go to the doctors at least once a month for almost 2 years straight because I was sick so much. I never could stand doctors, to me all doctors are there for are to stick needles in you for shots and drawing blood, and I am terrified of needles.
We don't have a walk in clinic close by here, we have one at the hospital, but it's just worthless because I'm under 18, so they can't do anything without parental consent and it's just too much to go through.
Well, I have to get going.

~Jamie~

Not all doctors stick needles. They do yes, for testing to rule out anything that is affecting your health... you may hate the needles, but everyone has to deal with them.

I'm sorry you had such a bad time with them.

I wish you the best of luck.

I have been diagnoses by a psychiatrist with Post Tramatic Stress. I see him about every other month. I don't really talk about it alot yet, I have just filled him in on the events in my life. I hope to have the courage to really talk with him. I want to but don't have the courage. I have suffered abuse as a small child, rape as a young adult, and recently was hit by an 18- wheeler. I am very fortunate to be alive. I have all of the symptoms you talk about and also numbness and weakness on my left side, stuttering, and severe headaches. I have had every test imaginable but nothing physical can be found. My diagnosis remains PTS and depression. I have good and bad days. Recently I have been having vivid dreams. I am usaully lost in my dreams and in danger of some kind. Could you have PTS? Yes. Please find the courage to seek some kind of help. I am 52 and wish I would have talked to someone years ago. Try to make a start with some kind of therapy. You may have the courage to talk about this. I hope to gain the courage to talk about my trauma. Don't give up. Take each day as it comes and be thankful and take good advantage of your good days. My heart goes out to you. Good Luck. iwrite

Hey,
Thanks so much. Umm.... I'm actually still quite afriad to talk about a lot of stuff that has happened in my life that may be causing PTS. Just recently I started to get stressed out so much that I ended up fainting quite often, and even though I don't think that could be cause by PTS, I'm not 100% sure. I try to avoid so many situations right now, any talk about car accidents, cancer, heart attacks, abuse, and just so much else, the best that I can. Last week my brother's friend and another girl from my school were in a car accident, first thing I did was totally freak out. I kept thinking about my aunt and seeing what I believe had happened the night she died in a one car accident.
Well, I best get going.

~Jamie~

Jamie,
I am afraid too and I do not handle stress well at all. I hope that your friends who were in the car accident will be okay. All we can do is take one day at a time. Hope that the days to come will be better for both of us. I have an appointment tomorrow morning with my attorney about the 18-wheeler accident. My court date is the 7th of June. I wish the 7th was over and I wish it would never come. I know I have to face it, and I will. We have the strength to face the things we have to.
Iwrite

Hey,
Well, I've been dealing with this a lot lately. I mean, for a 15 year old, I guess I'm handling things the way that I see fit. I have been talking to my former English student teacher a lot lately. She helped me out so much when she was student teaching when a lot of stuff started to happen. She has been very supportive of me, and I'm glad that I have someone sort of close to be there for me. My friends seem to think that I'm over a lot of the stuff because I don't show it very often, but I'm totally not.
I'm so afraid to talk to counselors because I've had bad experiences with them, and I hate talking to people like that about stuff that I feel is really personal. I hardly even go in depth with my close friends, not many people know about what I've gone through in 15 years. I can tell anyone this much, it's more than almost any 15 year old has gone though, I can almost guarantee that.
Well, I gotta get going.

~Jamie~