Oh yeah, Ben I have certainly found that PTSD can both mentally and physically take control. When I was exactly your age I had the greatest difficulty in speaking up at the doctor's office and explaining just what was going on with me phys., never mind mentally. I remember the way my PTSD mentally manifested itself in phys. syptoms was unbelievable. They had me in for MRI's, some sort of evoked potential testing, and the works. One specific manifestation scared the sh#* out of me. I'd be like suddenly overcome with anxiety and emotions of helplessness and hopelessness and fear... and one side of my body would just kind of collapse, with my legs weakening and literally me falling down, sometimes on my face. And I remember thinking there was some kind of a connection to the way I was mentally thinking and feeling and that perhaps I was in control of this and could stop it. No way. This and other yucky, scary, terribly frightening symptoms had hold of me for sometime and I wasn't about to stand before the doctor and point out all of them, because I honestly thought I must be either cracked or suffering some horrible undiagnosed physcial disease. Haven't exper. that severe comb. of symptoms now in sometime...and hope they'll never return.

Good luck to you bennjamin and hope things get better for you.