PTSD

Assault does not disappear because the new identities of “spouse” or “mother” accumulate in your wake. This is how my husband and I handle intimacy.

You can learn to live with the pain, you can move on as I have after over a decade of self-reflection and hard work, but you never, ever get over it.

A reminder that you just never know what sorrow a child’s terrible attitude might be masking. A reminder that probably applies to adults as well.

Did you know that only about 11 percent of the people exposed to trauma develop PTSD? You can heal from emotional trauma.

I stood in the hallway and tentatively pushed the bathroom door open, holding my breath as I peered into the darkness, waiting for it to bump into

The most valuable thing though, being a therapist with mental illness, is that I get it. I know how desperate you feel to change your life.

I cannot fix the fear and anxiety and overwhelming sadness about this upcoming move. The frightening truth is this: the only way out of it is through.

So began the long, toxic love affair between my depression and my addiction. They battled silently and stealthily for control over my body and mind.