Hello everyone!

It is Canada Day and I'm celebrating this great country and the fact that I have finally been diagnosed with PTSD and getting help. This is all new to me. I have been suicidal and have been living on high alert and in an agitated state for some time. Now, with medication and counselling I am doing much better and finally becoming optimistic about recovery. Here is my question for anyone who wishes to respond. In the last year, my flashbacks have become more severe. I believe it has been due to the fact that I have seen my "threat" in public and have felt like my sense of security has been threatened at work. Every day I would see my "threat" constantly whether real or not in the faces of every man on the street. It was insane! I now 40 but as a child he threatened my life physically and verbally on several occasions and he is now an old man but I have been seeing the younger version of what I remember everywhere I go. I left my job a few weeks ago for a better work environment and I have notices the flashbacks and visions of my attacker have died down. For all of you who have experienced this can you give me a sense of how you overcame it?