ADAA Personal Story: Do the Impossible: Healing From Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

[ADAATeamRachel]

"PTSD is an invisible monster. It disguises reality. When I was sucked into what I learned to call the trauma vortex, I often couldn’t distinguish between what was real and what wasn’t. I thought I was going crazy. PTSD told me this over and over again: You’re not safe. You never will be. Being dead would be better than living one more day like this. The message from my illness was clear: Give up."

Read Jenni's personal story of PTSD here: adaa.org/living-with-anxiet...

[Clarine]

Exactly the same with me. I feel betrayed and abandoned over and over by people who I should be able to trust and feel safe with. It is paralyzing, and the visions and scrambled word salads repeat in my head nonsense. I can't focus or sleep. And I do feel like I don't want to live in this much pain.