ptsd

I have epilepsy and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The one greatly effects the other. The medications I was on, zarontin, lamictal, tazadone, exacerbated my PTSD. I felt my quality of life was diminished enough that the risk of stopping medications outweighed their benefit. My seizures may have...

Hello everyone, My name is John Dougherty and I am the spouse of someone who has successfully overcome most of her psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) causes by sexual abuse in childhood. PNES are often linked to trauma and PTSD and there are up to 500,000 people in the US alone who are...

Hey everybody, I've been married to my high-school sweetheart for almost 31 years. We were 15/16 when we started dating and we're 49/50 now, so I know more about her than anyone. Though we've been through a lot in our life together, last summer we were in Western Africa working in a small...

Hello everyone, I am new here and this is my first post. Problem Description: I have been having pseudo seizures for about 2 years. The pattern is the same. I am working, doing computer software development, which I like, and something frustrates me and impedes my ability to go forward...

I don't know why I have been having a lot of nightmares. Most of the nightmares were mostly about things from the past. I also have P.T.S.D . I'm tired of having those nightmares. I don't know how to make them quit. Has any of you had anything like this? I'm tired of having flashbacks. I can't...

I have just learned something, and I figured if it wasn't clear to me perhaps it might not be clear to others. So bear with me while I attempt to shed some light on what I have learned. I was under the impression that there was Epilepsy and then there was Psychogenic Non-Eplileptic Seizures...

Press Release: EEG Institute to Provide Free Post-Traumatic Stress Treatment for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Over the last few months a great amount of attention has been placed on what can be done for those veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars who return home suffering from PTSD or...

http*//www.traumahealing.com/art_memory.html (old link no longer works, article also posted here: http://www.traumainstitute.org.il/Default.asp?PageId=205&FragmentId=340 ) Is there a connection to seizure activity? I wonder if there have ever been any studies done. Most of the info I can...