I have recently begun to tell family about the molestation I experienced as a child. It was by an extremely close family member who even lived next door. Since then I have withdrawn from society, have extreme social anxiety, nightmares... and I'm afraid to be alone with any man. Even my own father. It's awful because I know my father would never do anything to me but that fear is there. I shake around people and worry constantly. When I talk to any man... seconds feel like minutes. There is much more to it but I don't really want to talk about it.

My mother says I may have my own form of PTSD... When I think of PTSD I think of my ex husband who was in Iraq... not being molested. Could it be?