Anyone Else With PTSD?

Yes its a complex condition that is eased most by CBT Cognitive Behavioral Talk therapy. Talking to others who suffer with It help each
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I agree that PTSD, whether it is family-of-origin or military (or any other traumatic event) is complicated. I found help for mine in the past ten years with a psychologist who specializes in military personnel. But, as he explained to me, PTSD is relative to the person suffering from it. A soldier's PTSD is no worse than someone suffering from child abuse, TO THAT PERSON. I agree that talk therapy is the only way to put it to rest. You have to talk it to death; cry, scream, beat the furniture (which I have done more than once), and expel it from your mind. It might always be there; you won't forget, but you will learn to live and cope with it.

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Hello and here I am again. My PTSD is from family and on the job. Slammed twice. This is the first time I have heard that to this should be talked to death. I think this is so right. It does help me as I look back on this, yes it is right. Pity our poor families and friends so a good group get together of us the PTSD people is good but difficult to find, would be one of the best way's to go. NAMI tries to do this but they are so overwhelmed and need much, much help in so many ways. And then there are the people who need transportation to these meetings. etc., etc., etc.
I was so very lucky to have the one loving memory of my early childhood that I still cling to it that I am a loved and wanted person. My grandmother was the one but she died when I was three. I look back on to this same feeling again and again. My story is long and practically unbelievable so I will not start it now. People tell me I should not think about it but I find it healing in many ways. Keep loving yourself. Peach (Just came out of the emergency room and three days in the hospital bed. Rheumatoid and Psoriatic arthritis attacking my body. Fighting these two dragons is a life long fight.) The morons put me in a room with another and who was brought there from a nursing home. She also was on a sleep apnea machine that when she stopped breathing which was every two to three minutes and when that happened the machine put out a noise so loud that the nurses closed the door to the room we were in. I asked to be moved which was not done. THIS WAS CHINESE WATER TORTURE. If I live through this one I will be surely blessed. This was cruelty and they wanted to put me into assisted living. It was when I threatened to sue: all of a sudden a doctor appeared and allowed me to leave to go to my home. Always a story but I love you all Peach

@lolaemma Next week am meeting with new therapist to deal with PTSD childhood trauma that's decided to re emerge during COVID something awful. Think I need to exorcise it with kicking, screaming, punching the sofa!

Yes, I have family-of-origin PTSD. It has been quite severe in the past, and although I still cope with it, it is better with meds and a psychologist to talk to about my problems. I have cried, screamed, beat the furniture, torn up the house - many, many destructive ways of handling my PTSD. The violence has subsided, but I have always had nightmares and even night terrors. I have walked in my sleep and honestly believed my father was in my house demanding that I play the piano for his friends, heard his humiliating words again, heard him demean my husband and my son, listened to him talk up my sister to me, and more, and more, and more. He died two years ago, and while the PTSD is better, and I am well on my way to forgiving him, I will never forget. Sometimes the memories make me cry, while at the same time I mourn his passing. Go figure, huh? PTSD can be a complicated condition. The one thing my psychologist told me when I told him I didn't think my PTSD was the same as soldiers feel (my son was a captain in the army and came home with PTSD), he explained to me that a soldier's PTSD is no worse than my PTSD. PTSD is relative TO THAT PERSON. What I feel, is as intense as what a soldier feels. If you want to talk about PTSD, just reply to me. Help is out there. Keep your head up.

@ vikymurry Great to hear from you. You've got it knocked. The DSMIII was the first time the medical profession accepted PTSD as having domestic reasons for It. Too many of us dragged ourselves around for decades trying to get help. It's not too late for us to live eat and sleep without fear. Someday I'll put some of my torture down in readable form. As soon as I stop realiving it. Yeah for the survivors!

I will always be here dead or alive. The difficulty to continue on, the shame, the hurt in the body and the thoughts in the mind. This can never stop. It will continue on until mankind is no more. It is up to us, all of us to some how and with cgreat care and loving ourselves much. My ride is here must go to the beauty shop now. Love Peach

@peach414144 Onward!