ConsiderThis: I guess you could say I still have fear. Mine is more in the form of anxiety/panic attacks but it's not always their.

Katty: I'm sorry about your friend, it sounds like he had/has a very difficult time with PTSD. You have also not had it easy......regardless of the degree PTSD is really horrible.

I have PTSD, triggered in Dec 2003 by a doctor. Many things have changed for me. There are some who I had been very close to who I no longer have a relationship with....my decision.

I became someone I no longer recognized. I had a "small" nervous breakdown and went to a very dark place in my mind that to be honest I wasn't sure I wanted to leave. I am a "mild" agoraphobic and something I keep working with so I don't get any worse.

I had been in therapy for 3 years and it became my life saver. Coping? Sometimes I feel as if I am still trying to cope. I am not as bad as I was but I still deal with axiety/panic attack, flashbacks are not as often but they still happen. I have found I can not watch certain things on TV.

Klonopin has been a big help in allowing me to try and be who I used to be but I will never completely be the old me......I have been working on becoming a better and reinvented me.