Thank you so much for your wise and ever so sensitive comments. How I wish that all who need help will find either this website or a safe, encouraging place where they are able to rest, be at peace and grow. Many , Many blessings to all who make the Gift from Within possible.

Trauma Focused CBT for children and youth and
Prolonged Exposure Therapy for adults are currently popular for treatment of trauma. I wonder if anyone has benefited from this one of this treatment approaches?

Hi Dr. Frank,
I came upon your great website today quite by accident.
I believe I have now found a storehouse of tools for overcoming the Complex PTSD that I have been struggling with for the past 55 years. I at last realize that I have always been quite sane, but just chronically troubled by the effects of certain events, most of which I did not cause, and that I most certainly did not ask for. A great and crushing weight has suddenly been lifted from my spirit. I look forward to the day in the very near future when I WILL once again SMILE and LAUGH on a DAILY BASIS.
Thank you!!! :)))
God bless you!!!
Mike

I came across this site while searching for a local support group. So far I have found none but I am not giving up. We all have our personal demons that need to be worked out. My problem is "Why NOT me ???" I failed the physical when I was drafted (58,200 names on The Wall, my older brother came home with a Purple Heart), I served 20 years when I enlisted years later, survived cancer shortly after the military, had a severe head injury that should have killed me when I was 12, plus other onging things. Is survival in this life just plain luck? My wife thinks it is Divine Intervention. This Web Site is a breath of fresh air. May God bless all of you.

Wishing you all the best,from fellow "Victims" of Child abuse at Tom Thumb Thank you.

I've recently discovered that ptsd is what I have.Now if only I could get help, my husband thinks I'm making this up so I know he don't have my back.It's been 5 years of hell and I'm hoping to learn something from this website or talk to people going through the same. I am strong but do not know how to find peace.

My name is Bryan and I have suffered quite a bit through the 29+ years that I have been around. Let me start by saying that I am not trying to down play what you have been through but I am here to give you words of encouragement, and I hope they help. Here we go, I was physically beaten with a belt by my babysitter when I was 7 because I was too loud while she was watching tv. I was sexually assaulted when I was 7 or 8 by my step brother. I watched my mom attempt to commit suicide when I came home from school when I was 15 or 16. And I was literally an inch a way from dying when I was blown up by a Rocket Propelled Grenade that almost seperated my upper torso from my lower torso while I was in Iraq. I am here to say that YOU CAN get through the hard times that you have been facing...I DID!!

Very nice site! I live everyday with PTSD. My prayers go out to anyone who is touched by this illness.

Thank you for your website. It provides good support and resources. I am a survivor of much trauma and violence. I have been in recovery for years and done much work on myself in therapy and in groups. Lately I have been re traumatized and have been experiencing old feeling of shame and guilt. I have stopped seeing my therapist for yrs now, but family issues have surfaced and once again my guilt is triggered I come from an extremely toxic family and my husbands side is difficult to deal with as well. RIght now my main issue is dealing with the guilt of divorcing myself from my toxic family. I have tried for years to "cope" when around them, but it seems the stronger I got, the meaner they became. I hope to find support throught this website.