How a PTSD diagnosis saved me after being abused
Jen Zarzecki was brutally abused by her boyfriend. It wasn’t until she accepted her PTSD diagnosis that she began to realize it wasn’t her fault.
Jen Zarzecki was brutally abused by her boyfriend. It wasn’t until she accepted her PTSD diagnosis that she began to realize it wasn’t her fault.
“At the exact moment in which my emotions would begin to settle and the fog of depression would seemingly lift, another surgery would knock me back down. My last major surgery had been no different. The nightmares and flashbacks came roaring back, reigniting the questions over what might have been. Angry and confused, I failed to see the impending danger lurking just around the corner.”
~ Samuel Moore-Sobel
Shoshana Stein shares her experience of losing her closest friend while in high school and the state of mania that ensued.
Shaneequa shares her story of how much her identity was tied to the approval of her parents and her life plan and after that came into question again and again, how she fell apart.
In interview format, Rayette shares her journey through abuse, mental illness, and hospitalizations to being diagnosed with DID.
B tries to cope with horror after horror as she falls deeper into depression and makes countless suicide attempts.
After spending 11 years in the British Army, Russ decides to leave. As he tries to adjust to civilian life, he finds himself unable to fit in.