For door 17 we explore PTSD - do you know what it is?
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Door 17: PTSD is often misunderstood - do you know what it is?
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A very helpful explanation of a largely misunderstood and underestimated condition so thank you.
Newdawn
Very few understand how to treat someone affected by trauma. The worst thing to do is for people (therapists), without training, to attempt to "treat" people which can actually re-traumatize. I am thinking of Hillsborough, where the football stadium collapsed. One boy was saved when his father lifted him up in the air and the boy was passed back until he was able to escape. His father was killed. The boy was sent to CBT where the treatment included "exposure"ie de-sensitisation, in an attempt to cure the boy. Notonly did it not work, the boy was re-traumatized, each therapy.
Sadly, many of Israel's psychotherapists are expert in trauma. They were asked to go to the USA following the Boston Marathon terrorist attack.
Often, people are told to "snap out of it" or they are wallowing in "self-pity." This is quite untrue. No one would tell someone who is having a heart attack to "snap out of it."
Mental Health is often regarded as something we don't talk about, as if it is shameful. People's responses to someone with a mental health diagnosis, is as if, it is either catching, or too distressing to the "healthy" or"normal" people and want them just to disappear.
Healing can take a great deal of time. It cannot be rushed.
That is so true, Luppus-support. That is often the case - people think it is self pity and assume someone thinks about it while they are not. It is on a deeper subconscious level and one cannot "think" their way out of it.
Because it is invisible condition, there is often not enough support from family and people close...
Having a disease/illness is also a form of trauma, hence why I setup LUpus Patients Understanding & Support (LUPUS) - help is available for everyone; you don't need a diagnosis of lupus,or even have lupus!
That's a great idea...
For some people the communities are a big source of help, information and support...
Yep. I'm in the back of the room with my shaky hand up. Had it since Tet.
I'll shake this monkey off my back someday. Or not. Either way, I'll live 'till I die.