Testimonies: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 7 Articles

by Tee Tee

Post traumatic Stress Post traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is something that many people have heard of but most do not understand it. It is a past traumatic event that can affect a person's day to day life. According ...read more

by Shannon Beineke

As a teenager, I must have looked like an easy target to predators. My meager hundred pound figure showcased my vulnerability. To make matters worse, my father didn't own a car. I walked wherever I needed to go. Even when ...read more

by Gary Pruett

COPING WITH PTSD It always started the same way. Intense, inky blackness, then, slowly at first, an image in the middle of nothingness. Suddenly, it was there, overwhelming in its monstrousness. Crystalline clarity,...read more

by sue h

Feelings Run Deep I guess I had been exercising for about a year when the chest pains began. At 53 years old, and having high cholesterol, that's not something that can just be dismissed. But it was the breathlessnes...read more

by C. M. Erickson

I wrote this vignette after my husband (an Iraqi veteran with an award for valor stemming from an insurgent ambush that out numbered his own soldiers almost two to one) and I got married. PTSD nightmares are horrible. ...read more

by Amanda Banning

From an everyday person who has POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD)..... I do not intend to be presumptive, I hold no degree in Psychiatry or Psychology. I am simply an average person. I am however at a point in wh...read more

by Hope Forus

Healing is a process. Just like when you suffer PHYSICAL trauma, PSYCHOLOGICAL wounds require treatment and TIME to heal. Most healing can not be done without shedding a few tears. Probably the most important things I'v...read more