I've just started therapy for PTSD that was diagnosed in November. I'm really struggling with some of the symptoms associated with PTSD, namely disassociation and severe depression. It breaks my heart. It's Father's Day and I feel like I don't know my husband or two kid's or myself. I feel like I'm speaking from an empty shell. I don't feel like I know me. I'm so depressed about it, I'm avoiding my family today. I know this is part of PTSD, and I have a wonderful counselor, yet it's a special day, I'm only about 6 weeks into therapy and was wondering if someone out there could give me some coping tools for making it through the day.

I feel like there is a sense of "time lost" and it feels intolerable. I want to feel normal again. I know the more I resist the present, the more my symptoms persist. I'm rambling.

Advise?