Does the danger of a past trauma live on in your mind? Are you hyper-vigilant? Has  fight or flightbecome a way of life for you? Does shock and alarm arise on a regular basis, though the trauma that changed your life happened weeks, months or even years ago?

Childhood abuse is not survived without scars. Many survivors live with wounds that others can’t see. You do your best to try to manage, but as the years go by, coping becomes harder and harder and zaps all of your energy. These old wounds weren’t healed with time, as you hoped they would be. Instead, they were painfully transformed into something adult, pervasive and entrenched: post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.

A survey of the experts who treat PTSD, as well as, some of the people who live with PTSD discuss firsthand what people typically get wrong about PTSD. Here’s what to keep in mind when it comes to PTSD:

How can unresolved PTSD raise havoc in the body by affecting healing and digestion?

War, unimaginable tragedy, and natural disasters, known as big T trauma, bubble up on the internet in a 24-hour news cycle these days. Trauma seems to be all around us, everywhere. And for some, PTSD is a new, unwanted, reality. For those of us who have experienced trauma, or enduring it with a loved one, or wondering what it means, it’s vital we know what we’re dealing with. Let’s examine some of the facts about PTSD.