not sure I've handled alot before I snapped like
ex-husbands adbuse broken bones sugery repaired face jaw broke in 4 places.
next standing next to a stranger I met that night when he was shot point blank in the face/
ex-boyfreinds beating me till I lost a child at 6 months aglong/then he raped me found out another baby then the tossed my $20. told me get rid of it
cancer / death od daughter at age of 3 years old / sons got involed with drugs
and other forms of breaking the law./ handled it all till the armed robbery in 2006 started in 1974 so it took me 33 years to find life has a name of ptsd
sally

Hi
I answered over a year but thats when i found out i had been through trauma and started experiencing the ptsd in full. The drugs i was given meant that i had amnesia about it for 12 years almost exactly to the day! While i had the amnesia i still had some of the effects of ptsd like poor memory, being angry, paranoia etc but i hadnt got a clue that there was anything wrong with me or what had happened. no flash backs, nor panic attacks etc untill i was triggered 8 months ago. Blanked it all out. So maybe the effects were immediate but i wasnt aware. They certainly werent the full blown effects im experiencing now.

It took 20 years

I seem to have a delayed reaction.
I was able to push all my hurt down and keep it hidden for years, but
then it came bubbling up to the surface in full force, and threw my into panic attacks and seizures.
I had a traumatic childhood, from age 2 to age 18.
I was able to act like nothing bothered me for all those years, but around the time that I turned 19, I began experiencing a lot of severe forgetfulness, and feeling like I was in a dream. I am almost 32 now, and just a few years ago, I began having seizures.
They would throw me into a frozen state, and cause me to lose consciousness and recollection. I really wish I could stop these symptoms, but I can't afford therapy, and I really don't want to take medicine. I wish someone had an answer for me. I'm all alone over here, with no one to identify with. My only friend who has had a similar life, and who accepts me with all of my flaws is leaving our place of work due to a previous injury. I'm going to be so sad to be alone again.

I answered 1-3 mos. I started having intrusive thoughts and flashbacks after my first rape. I used to fantasize about getting revenge in extreme detail.

With my mom, I started semi-fighting back both with my words and sometimes I would hit her back. I had nightmares about her throughout my childhood until I became an adult and they became less frequent.

Anyway, the symptoms have been with me for as long as I can remember. The diagnosis came rather late.

3 to 6 months? But I didn't know why I cried hysterically sometimes. That was the first assault. I won't go into discription for it may cause distress for others. A year laterafter that injury I was writing up the clients medications & at the end of my shift I was trying to figure out what their ment & there. Two years in a row before I went to see the psychologist I've been seeing since 2001. In 2003 I was assaulted again & I don't have a lot of memory of exactly what were on that day but he was trying to kill me. Ok, enough for me.

I know that I had symptoms very soon after my father passed away when I was 13. Specifically I stopped feeling and became dissociative almost from the start. I also suppressed thoughts about the event and about my father, in other words I was avoidant in thinking about the trauma from the very beginning.

I wish I could answer this question, but I don't really know.

After many years in the military, the initial trauma happened early on in my career and there has been multiple other trauma's over the years. But since a short tour in Afghanistan and the loss of many friends in the last couple years the symptoms really started to appear.