I heard the army was goin with video games. That's all I could afford too. lol

The Atlanta,GA VAMC started a new treatment that shows promising results. It was supposed to be available at many of the VAMC's nationwide by 2006 but can't tell you if it has been done. It is a virtual/visual exposure-based type therapy.Go to www.ncptsd.va.gov/ncmain

Are prozac, Zoloft, and other meds effective?

They gave my brother depression meds and meds to help sleep.

Did your brother's meds work?

To a certain extent. My brother has some medical disability problems also. And he has depression. So with his high dosage of morphine and the other meds he is on, he will usually sleep at night. Though big brother will usually sleep in the daytime too, and eat and drink junk food all day and say his sugar is up, that he does not feel like doing anything.

So his issues go way beyond just the ptsd, though that is how he got his disability paperwork pushed through.

Good luck.

My husband has been on wellbutrin for several years. It doesn't seem to have any side effects on him, and it works to a point. He still suffers from depression, so the doc has recently put him on Prozac in addition to his other meds. It will be a few weeks before I will know if it's working.
He probably won't notice whether it's working or not.
When we go to his doc and the doc asks my husband how he has been feeling, my husband looks at me and says, "how have I been feeling?" The doc has learned to just asked me instead of my husband. I mentioned that my husbands depression had gotten worse and that he seemed to be getting short of breath more often lately, so we now have new meds, and a couple of inhalers.
The doc has scheduled a lung function test for next month.
I'd say, if your doc suggests some meds, they would be worth a try! If a certain med doesn't seem to work, they can keep trying different things to make you feel better.

So are some of the horror stories about meds true? I heard a lot of people say that they can make it worse.

yes try military one source on the net they will send you info and offer online and will send you to in person counseling services in your area they helped me get this far dont give up man.PTSD is serious stuff to battle don't try it alone it kills if not treated.let me know how it goes for you try that link and send me a message of how it went.Don't worry it's totaly confidential