PTSD Articles

Pain of Childhood Sexual Abuse

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Thursday, June 13th, 2013
I am in so much pain. I look at my life and noticed that I've lost. I have 27 distinct personalities. Mom and Dad decided to have people rape me over and over. I came here from another country and we were poor, so ...
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Nightmares from Past Abuse?

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Sunday, June 9th, 2013
My grandson's mother suffers from nightmares, that seem real to her...Hallucinations? Can we help her? She is a 25 year old mother of one, she was sexually abused as and adolescent, and her father abandoned the family when she was about 11 years old, she ...
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How Do I Deal with My Boyfriend’s PTSD?

By Daniel J. Tomasulo, PhD, TEP, MFA, MAPP on Thursday, June 6th, 2013
I've been with my bf now for 6 months but we've known each other for much longer. My question is how do I get through his bad anxiety-ridden days when he can barely get through them. He has ptsd and generalized anxiety but some days ...
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I Believe That My Girlfriend Raped Me

By Daniel J. Tomasulo, PhD, TEP, MFA, MAPP on Saturday, May 18th, 2013
Today while we were both in respective dark depressed moods, my girlfriend jumped on me and started kissing me very forcefully. I told her I really did not want to and pushed her aside. I got up and she came up to me, pulled down ...
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Hearing Voices

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Thursday, May 16th, 2013
Hi, I hear voices in my head. It's been going on for 3 years now. At first i heard a woman calling my name over and over. She sounded very gentle and calm, gradually I began to hear a very aggressive male voice as well. ...
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Fear of Former Colleagues

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Monday, May 13th, 2013
I recently attended a conference and ran into a former colleague who was very cruel to me. I was a victim of mobbing at a previous job. I am petrified that this woman talked to my current colleague and she has sabotaged my job. I ...
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Repressed Memory of Rape

By Daniel J. Tomasulo, PhD, TEP, MFA, MAPP on Friday, May 3rd, 2013
I have come to the realization that I was raped at 12 or 13. Didn't know up until about a year ago. I have been given a diagnosis of major depressive and borderline personality disorder. It affected the way I treated children, who are now ...
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Guilt over Being Abused

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Saturday, April 13th, 2013
When I was in 2nd grade, I was molested by the grandfather of a neighbor, who was a couple years older than me. I don't remember all the specifics of what happened with him, but I do remember sitting on his leg while not ...
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Relationship Issue & PTSD

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Saturday, March 23rd, 2013
My boyfriend and I have an up and down relationship. He also has PTSD and I don't think its only from Iraq. I think his past has a lot to do with it. He has called me names (which I actually don't take offense too) ...
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Depression or Bipolar?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Wednesday, March 20th, 2013
I served in the military for 7 years with two deployments to Afghanistan and two deployments to Egypt. When my first deployment ended 2008 (13 month tour), my best friend committed suicide and it hit me for a few months. After those few months I ...
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Obsessed with Rape

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Sunday, March 17th, 2013
I'm 21 and I was raped almost two years ago and every since I have had this obsession with rape. I read books about people being raped and watch movies with really graphic rape scenes and look up stuff about it on the web ...
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Violent Fantasies

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
I've considered the possibility of murder for many years now, starting with my father when I was around 8 (he was heavily psychologically and physically abusive to me, and I have vivid memories of watching him beating my mum and hearing him rape her from ...
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