Heya MattRich,

I would like to ask you, is this person the only person who's discussed the possibility of PTSD with you? If yes, then I would suggest you get a second opinion. If you have never been in combat, never been abused, severely neglected, been in an accident, etc. then to be told you have PTSD seems a bit strange. The reason I suggest you get another opinion is because if it was something other than PTSD then you are going to be giving yourself the wrong treatment and not actually help yourself. This happened to me. There are other illnesses that do have similar symptoms to PTSD including bipolar, where people are wrongly diagnosed. I was diagnosed with depression, OCD, Bipolar, and then finally after 10 years I found I actually had PTSD. Just knowing the right answer in itself has been more help then any medication or therapy I did in the 10 years since it all started.

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