Before I broke and started to have many of the PTSD symptoms, I had a job that was so stressful that I had (most days) 20 panic attacks working at a level of physical pain of at least 7 if not 9 with my Fibromyalgia tender points and overall fibro pain at that level all the time for 3 years. I could not quit my job or get a new one (I had made myself too important in the job I had and a new job would not pay anything like what I made) but that was not the life or death to me - it was that my husband would have divorced me because at that time in our life, money meant more than me. I would have lost my family (my husband, my teenage children (they were closer to him because I just couldn't do a job, handle being a housewife, cook, and sex toy and have much to give them. I wanted to give to them but I embarrassed them so I was "instructed" to remain quiet. I would have also lost his family with whom I was close and all of our friends. To me, that is like loosing your life but maybe not. What do you think?