How about panic attacks? I had been handling all of this pretty well after some counseling through my college. That is up until the Pookah man had to be placed at CCS. He was abused and I was treated like a criminal, at times not even being allowed access to him. I took him out of there and started having some serious panic attacks, bad enough that the doctor put me on medications to control them. I'm off the medications now, but I still have them on occasion, usually when I feel like people are sucking up all the oxygen in a room! I control them with Yoga and breathing techniques as well as some pretty awesome visualization (ie; Sean Connery or Kenan Wayans rubbing my feet........) I just started going to another counselor to try to stop them altogether. I have always been mentally healthy up until that point. Some depression due to son's diagnoses, some frustrations due to son's doctors/therapists, but nothing major till now. This counselor that I'm going to has even brought up possible PTS too, but not diagnosed.