living with PTSD-Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

My own experience living with PTSD( Post Traumatic Stress), I have been embarrass to talk to any friends and family that I was diagnosis with PTSD. To me it just seem it was better to keep it to myself. I live with seizures disorders. The less people knew about my disorders the better it made me feel. People who does not understand these mental illness are ignorant and they make up the most excuses to stay away, it is not catchy or not an illnesses that can not be treated. I share my story living with PTSD because I hope it gives people a little understanding and help others to find some comfort who lives with mental illness that they are not lone. To help comfort others who lives with seizures that they also are not alone.

I pray and hope by publishing my story here on Hub-page living with mental health problems may also comfort and hope to others who also may be living with this illness. I am a"normal" person who gets up as anybody else in the mornings to start their day and hope the day goes well. I hope all who reads my hub will help them realized that mental illness can strike anybody at any time for any reason. People as myself living with PTSD or any kind of mental illness are not mad or strange or not even in any way abnormal. We are as normal and try to live our lives in a completely normal way.

I live with PTSD, and depression, the way it effects me may not effect others the same way. I have bad days, I have good days. My symptoms may not be the same as others who lives with this illness. My symptoms effects me where I have mood swings and days that I do not want to get out of bed in the mornings or for no apparent reason I may hate the world I live in. Very rarely though I loose my temper, where for others now their symptoms may effect them where they loose their temper for no reason. I do not work no longer because in my case this is where my pseudo seizures step in. I have panic attacks working around a crowd of people. Which however those who do not know or may have knowledge or understand what pseudo seizures are, I hope this gives you an understanding. Pseudo seizures are basically another medical term for Panic attacks. They can be severe or mild which in my case I have them only if I am under a lot of stress. For instance when my home was burglarized and I happen to be in my home while the person who was burglarizing me, fear set in because I fear for my husband's and my life. It placed stress in my life which causes me to have a pseudo seizure but it is not contiguous. My most common symptom is having flashbacks of my past childhood abuse and childhood trauma that was afflicted on me when I was a child. I have bad dreams and fear of men and doctors. To me, my dreams are so real and the dreams I have are vivid, "real" and disturbing which may affect my whole day.

The research I found on Right Health on the definition of PTSD

Post-traumatic stress disorder Guide

• « Full Article
• « Definition
• « Alternative Names
• « Causes, Incidence, And Risk Factors
• « Symptoms
• « Signs And Tests
• « Treatment
• « Support Groups
• « Expectations (Prognosis)
• « Complications
• « Calling Your Health Care Provider
• « Prevention
• « References

Definition

Post-traumatic stress disorder is a type of anxiety disorder. It can occur after you've seen or experienced a traumatic event that involved the threat of injury or death.

Alternative Names

PTSD

Causes, Incidence, And Risk Factors

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may occur soon after a major trauma, or it can be delayed for more than 6 months after the event. When it occurs soon after the trauma, it usually gets better after 3 months. However, some people have a longer-term form of PTSD, which can last for many years.  Doctors review article from RightHealth A D A.M.

I am living proof  of just one person living with PTSD (POST TRAUMATIC DISORDER). I have an Associate degree in Criminal Justice which I studied hard and worked and earned my degree in 2008. I worked for many years in a nursing home, a Certified Nursing Assistance.  I live with PTSD and pseudo seizures and depression but because I have mental illness does not change who I am inside. I am a person who loves the Lord and who does not give up but may have to work bit harder than others who do not live or have been diagnosis with this illness to succeed and fulfill and accomplish my dreams and goals that I have set in my life. I believe in myself by the grace of God and His power he will truly bless me only if it is Will. I faithfully attend church services and try to get involved in as many church activities I can. I am blessed being a Sunday School teacher. I feel I may not have a job right now that pays but I have a job working for the Lord.

I no longer am ashamed or even embarrass any more if asked to say I live with PTSD.PSUDEO SEIZURES and depression. I have learned tools to how to live with my illness and excepted it. I may only take baby steps and it may take longer for me but I'll get there by the grace of God. The first top of my dream was earning my degree, second goal: for many years I always dreamed one day to own my own Volkswagen beetle. I have accomplished and succeeded making one dream a reality and made it happen, I will one day have a Volkswagen parked in my drive way. I have many thanks to my Heavenly Father I have not had a seizure in over six years. Praise God, I give him the glory! PTSD- POST TRAUMATIC DISORDERS like I have mentioned above can happen to anybody in flash of an eye at anytime. I hope that sharing my own experience living with PTSD the information that I have published here is a mental health problem that high percentage of people who is diagnosis with it is going untreated. I pray it does help find some comfort, Hope that you do not stand alone. Comfort and Hope it will help others find peace and courage to share their stories.