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

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"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...

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