Hi nothemamaa8,
Do you suffer from only PTSD or is there otherdisorders contributing to your symtoms? Are you in therapy with a trauma specialist who is experience at treating PTSD?

Are you familiar with EMDR? It has helped so many people, people that have been haunted for years with PTSD, and they are fine now because they dealt with the memores that triggered it. There are always exceptiong to everything, but the recent finding on PTSD in the last 10 years show it is very treatable with many people going on to normal lives again. Now if you are suffering from more that just PTSD, then it will probably take a lot longer. I didn't have any disorders , just the PTSD.
Recently this year, they are testing a drug out that is suppose to help with the memories of recent trauma or older trauma (like the vietnam war for example). It looks very promissing .

PTSD is an anxiety disorder and most anxiety disorders are treatable with therapy and or drugs. I don't or never have taken any drugs to help with my recovery. I did mine with EMDR and a good therapist. I have had simular things happen to me over the last year, that could of caused PTSD, but it didn't . One just recently were my mother is threatening me (she owns a gun), for telling relatives about the abuse she did to me and my brother. Is this upsetting and scary? Yes of course, but I am sleeping well, no nighmares, no panic attacks, I am not isolating, I am living normally and quite well. The upsetting memoires that cause PTSD may never completely go away, but the power of them can, and the memories will not control your life. It takes a long timeand is very agonizing, if you are just doing regular desensitization but EMDR can give results rather instantly. I plan on becoming certified in this when I am a T.

Another instance, my stepdaugher(who graduated as a Pysch major) was raped a few years ago, and was really experiencing some PTSD, well they did EMDR a week after, and she improved her symptoms almost immediately. The difference was like night and day. She is also living a very healthly life being married, being a mother, without some of the sexual problems rape can cause in people who experience that.

I have a friend who was suffering very badly from the Gulf war and did EMDR about 8 years ago, and it has changed his life totally. He doesn't have the nightmares and is no longer suffering from it. He isn't even bothered my fireworks going off like on the 4th of July.
My T has treated over 200 cases of PTSD with EMDR and it helped all but 2 cases. But those 2 cases had other disorders, like DID. Are we allowed to post links to sites with info about PTSD? I have a lot of recent info that might be helpful for some.

Now if you suffer from personality disorders, now those might not be so easy to recover from since most are now thought to be mostly biological. But they are coming up with new finding from new studies on these too.

They have done MRI studies of people with PTSD and there is proof that PTSD can be cured, it can be seen medically, there is a huge difference in the brain. Some of EMDR studies have proven with medical imaging that EMDR works on PTSD.
I just want to offer hope to people, many people can recover from it with the right treatment.