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(JD) · Jun 03, 2011, 10:16 PM

If you're considering a program run by experts with PTSD, then you don't need to worry about what to say or not.... make sure you can leave when you feel you need to....(read what you sign?) and make sure someone on the outside is aware of what you are doing...? (To help you feel safe.)

I know of a few things, like exposure therapy, that sound really scary and impossible to do, but which do work and help you heal...

but really, experts know that "retraumatizing" someone isn't the path to healing, and I doubt they would force anything to you to do.... and what's in your mind is in your mind, you control that...

Hope I'm not babbling....
The reason you feel like a coward is the PTSD... it's an anxiety disorder... fight or flight and all that, remember?

The reason you feel like a fraud is a result of the trauma too I think... when in reality when you are a good, normal feeling, doing human being, that is when you are real (which is usually when you feel like a fraud, right?) The other times when you are feeling small or insecure and worthless, that's not the real you.