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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
I am terrified that of the idea of intruders and violent attacks. For no reason at all. When I try to go to sleep I flash on images all the time of someone sneaking in and hurting me in all sorts of horrible ways. These images won’t go away unless I get out of bed and check to make sure everything is OK. Sometimes I have to do this many times before I can fall asleep. I did not used to have this problem so what can I do to make it stop? Do you think I should get a dog or will that not work?
Read answer →Delayed Onset PTSD
How likely is it to get PTSD more than a year after a very traumatic experience, a fire, where a loved one died right beside you from smoke inhalation? I thought I was fine but now I have all of the symptoms of PTSD and I am really confused about why I am going through this now instead of back then or at the funeral.
Read answer →How Do I Breathe When I Can't Breathe?
I almost drowned and now with a part of my PTSD sometimes I feel like I can’t breathe even though all is OK. Once I get this feeling I have to fight to take the next breath and it feels like I can’t or I won’t be able to and I start to panic but then I do and then it repeats and during this I will by squezzing my stomach and chest muscles so hard they will hurt for hours after. I know I am supposed to try to do deep diaphramic breathing when I get like this but I can barely take tiny shallow breaths so that does not work.
Read answer →Divorce and PTSD
In marriages where one person gets PTSD that is not really responsive to treatment and is essentially an ongoing and never ending condition, what would you say the divorce rate is? This is my situation with my husband who is a retired police officer. We are in year 5 of quite severe symptoms and I am coming to realize that is it. It is never going to be different and I need to decide if I can accept this now that there is no hope of our old life returning.
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