Survivor Celebrates Trauma Anniversary

Survivor Celebrates Trauma Anniversary with Online PTSD Community


Michele Rosenthal celebrates her trauma anniversary with followers and fellow trauma survivors online with a month long series of events.


(I-Newswire) August 11, 2010 - Michele Rosenthal, a West Palm Beach resident, is celebrating an unusual anniversary: the day she survived a life-threatening trauma. While what she is celebrating may not be a typical milestone for most, her way of affirming life serves to benefit many people around the country who have a similar milestone to reconcile.

On August 31, 1981, Rosenthal was admitted to a hospital with the rare diagnosis of Stephens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS). A a severe allergic reaction to a medication that affects .5 people/million, SJS can leave a patient with as little as a 30% chance of survival. Rosenthal did survive, but after going through acute stress, she spent the next 25 years suffering with intense and disruptive psychological and emotional symptoms that were finally diagnosed as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

For trauma survivors, the anniversary of the day their world changed can be extremely painful. PTSD symptoms often increase, and on both conscious and subconscious levels survivors struggle to cope with memories and feelings they often can't control or explain. For example, on her trauma anniversary date each year during her 25 years of undiagnosed suffering, Rosenthal’s insomnia increased and her hair shed massively and, according to all the doctors with whom she sought help, inexplicably.

Once she was properly diagnosed, Rosenthal went on a healing rampage. She took control of her recovery and is now PTSD-free. Today, Rosenthal is the founder of Heal My PTSD, LLC, (www.healmyptsd.com), and works as a Self-Empowered Healing Coach, helping survivors shift from powerless to powerful so they can progress their healing journey.
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Survivor Celebrates Trauma Anniversary