shirtripper I too have heard about the success of EMDR and I agree that CBT is not suitable for post trauma stress, but I honestly don't think you should be so condemning of ADs - ok that is your view but they have helped many many posters on these threads, and for me they were a life saver, literally as I had made a suicide plan. I had been seeing a psychological counsellor for 3 months, who like you was having no truck with the medical model and told me ADs didn't work and she would not continue to see me if I took them. I was paying £90 per week for 2 sessions per week and I was getting worse and worse and she was making interpretations that did not fit.
In the end I gave her up and went to the GP who put me on ADs but because I had waited so long my depression/anxiety had built up to a major episode and I ended up in hospital for 3 months. I am now on a high dose of ADs and will stay on them for the rest of my life, as I could not risk getting to that stage again.
I think most posters are sensible and say what worked for them but make no sweeping claims about the medical model or the psychological model, in the way that you have done.
Ok they may not be appropriate for the OP but the GP needs to make a decision about that as sometimes depression/anxiety accompanies PSTD, and hence ADs could work, although of course there is no guarantee.
Hope this is not confusing you CCBB - hope you will feel able to get to the GP appt tomorrow. Maybe you could ask if the counsellor you are seeing is experienced at treating people with post tramau stress, or better still ask the counsellor what type of counsellor she is, as there are several different types e.g. psycho-dynamic (this was like the one I saw but doesn't mean they are all like her) person centred, cognitive analytic therapy etc.
You hope my friend is well on the way to recovery, well I can't be dishonest, she is still struggling to talk about what happened and unfortunately when she saw the therapist last time, it didn't go well and she was very angry. I think the counsellor was less than sensitive and this made my friend upset and angry. She is on something of a tightrope at the minute and had a wobble last week and I think she is finely balanced and I worry that she could fall off and lose the ground that she has made.
Sorry to be pedantic but I'm not sure any of us with MH problems "recover" especially if the roots of our problem lie in childhood or happened some years ago (as in your case) I think the thing is that by "unearthing" the trauma it starts to lose some of its power over you, and the aim is not really to "forget that it ever happened" as that is not realistic for any of us, but we can over time and with help make it something that is more manageable and does not "floor us" in a horrendous way.
Keep posting....there's lots of support on here.