Just Found Out - Apparently I Have PTSD!

[skullyfrost]

I have been seeking mental help for the past few months and today my new doctor suggested that I may have PTSD. I looked at her very oddly and said "huh". She asked me a bunch of questions and told me that with everything that I have been going through all my life, that I have PTSD. I am not even sure of the event. There is so much of my childhood that is blocked....I have a reoccuring dream of seeing my sister being raped when I was 8 but I am not sure of it. I don't remember. The dream is very vivid and very real feeling. My doctor said we will start with that possible cause, since it coinsides with when I first remember my nightmares begining. I am feeling very odd right now. Very numb. I have never even thought that this could be what is wrong with me, but the more I read the more I understand. I am just not sure what exactly caused it so it makes me very unsure of this diagnosis. So, I have no idea what to do now.

[hodge]

Welcome to the forum, Skullyfrost. I felt numb and shocked when I got this diagnosis, too.

[nie]

:hello: Welcome to the forum Skullyfrost.

[becvan]

Welcome to the forum Skully.

Considering you are dealing with a loss of memories, I suggest you read this thread : http://www.ptsdforum.org/thread1523.html along with reading all the threads on how to heal and our forum guidelines.

bec

[veiled]

Welcome to the forum.

[reallydown]

Welcome Skully.

[She Cat]

Hi Skully and welcome to the forum.:hello:

[hollyberry]

glad you found us

[vst]

Welcome to the fourm Skullyfrost.

vst

[anthony]

Welcome to the forum....

[glenda6]

I am also new here, but for me I was so happy with the PTSD diagnoses - when I was treated for depression for so long I felt that it was all wrong, now I feel I am right.

[goingonhope]

:hello: Hi, Skullyfrost and Welcome to the fourm! Lots off good material to read throughout the forum.

Hope

[just tina]

Hi, Skullyfrost. There's lots of information here and all over the place about PTSD. A lot to process. If you have doubts, check it out. That's an important process. It can take more self-assessment than anybody wants to deal with, but it's an interesting journey, and a diagnosis you don't trust isn't very helpful. Check out all the information here. It's a pretty well defined. What is happening to you is a better gauge than whether or not you think you suffered something that "qualifies" as trauma or can remember it. You don't need to know where you got the measles to know you have the measles.

[pandora]

Welcome to the forum.

[rt1967]

Hi Skully, glad you found the forum .
Ruth