PTSD is like being chained to a chair of spikes with your eyes pried open, mouth gagged, and forced to watch your trauma on a huge movie-theater screen in front of you, that's on replay... The doors around you are locked and everything behind you screams and taunts you but the chains give you no way out... no way out from the fear, no way out from the memories... PTSD is like being suffocated... and watching those clips roll by before your resisting eyes. That's what PTSD is to me.