P.T.S.D

[joe69]

I have just found out over the last week or two, that I have P.T.S.D.

It's a hard one to learn to cope with.

It always goes through your mind, what's triggered it, why now....

With help and friends the road to recovery shouldn't take as long....

Joe x

[Tess_W]

Joe,

I'm sorry to hear you have PTSD. Have you been offered any kind of therapy or support group? I think that would help a lot. I'm sure you will learn to cope with it and things will be much better. Just remember to be kind to yourself and patient with yourself also - it will take time, but you definitely WILL get there. You're already on the road to recovery this new year and I bet you'll be surprised this time next year!

[joe69]

I will admit that I am in a very difficult place the now.

I will have help in place hopefully very soon. G.P said it could take a few months, but hey I will get there.

Thanks for the messages much appreciated.

Have a great New Year.

Joe x

[deejames]

Hi Joe. Sorry to be ignorant but what is P.T.S.D ?

[Sazntef in reply to deejames]

Post traumatic stress disorder, common in the armed forces upon return from conflict.

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[deejames in reply to Sazntef]

Of course ! My husband had it after a savage dog attack. There are good therapies . I hope you are being offered something.

Dee

[johnsmith]

I do not know what you mean by PTSD. I quote: what you mean by PTSD. I know the definitions used by money making counsellors and the DSM.

I am also aware of the research that shows that counselling can make it worse by the continual going over of the trauma. There is a saying which life experience has shown me to be true "as it comes it will go". It is about learning the management skill to handle the new experience. Like all new experiences you have no handle on what effectively to do next. As you observe what happens you will pick up the things that make it worse and the things that make it better.

St Augustine had a prayer. "Lord make me holy, but not just yet." Wisdom is obtained by experience. Many of us (me included) would like to have the wisdom without having to go though the nightmare of having to live the experience that enabled me to gain the wisdom.

Hope this helps.

[Curlygirl54]

Johnsmith

I am deeply offended by your comment 'money making counsellors' and your misuse of the research about counselling and trauma. I am also very concerned that your comments will mislead and potentially unnerve Joe69 about what therapy he may have ahead. As a fully qualified and accredited counsellor I have spent years and a great deal of money training to work ethically and effectively with all types of traumatic experience, including PTSD. Your view that counselling 'continually goes over the trauma' is incorrect, this would only serve to repeatedly retraumatise the brain. Your opinion that 'as it comes it will go' demonstrates your misunderstanding of current knowledge of neuroscience relating to PTSD.

I have worked with many different forms of traumatic experience and PTSD and disagree categorically that it is necessary to go over the event (s) which have led to the traumatic response.

I am wondering if you have had a less than ideal experience of counselling yourself which has led to your negative, slightly scathing comments. Of course, I am not asking you to disclose if this is so, I just ask that my profession is not misjudged and denigrated in this way.

Shirley

[Curlygirl54]

Joe69

I'm sorry to hear of your diagnosis, I hope your GP gets good support in place for you asap. Thanks for sharing with us, you have great courage to do so and just putting it out there will hopefully reduce some of the power the letters may have had previously?

Sending you healing wishes and an ear ( or two!) if needed.

Take good care of you

Shirley

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[cgm42272]

I know how u feel I have had it for 15 years that I was told by my doctors it is hard to hold a job with so many fears & none of Ur family understands or trays to!!

[joe69]

Am finding it very difficult to talk to anyone about what happened.

This is probably why am so shocked that it has come back and bit me in the bump big style.

The place am in started between 1995/98, while I was in a relationship, or should I rephrase that to a bad relationship.

Am unsure as to what triggered it....but as I have said it's got a large bite.

I hope this makes a bit more sense.

Thanks for now.

Joe.

[Rosepetal60 in reply to joe69]

I told myself, if I could talk to a stranger such as a counsellor) and let myself cry when talking about it. it would help me to talk to a close friend or others about my experience without crying. I still have the memories but I can now talk about it with some emotion but not cry.

a lot depends on the councellor and what you expect from that person.

[Curlygirl54]

There's a fabulous book about trauma Joe entitled ' The body remembers' and it's as if the trauma is stored in the body as well as the brain when the brain has been unable to process the events. You may have heard that when we are very scared or very stressed we produce adrenalin and the effect of that on the brain is that only the primitive brain is active when really flooded with adrenalin. All the brain can do at these times is to go into Fight, Flight or Freeze modes and it's unable to process what is happening.

When we are in pain the body produces adrenalin as the pain is a stress in the body - so perhaps this may be why your history has been triggered?

If you would like me to suggest some resources you can access yourself until GP gets support organised for you I would happily do that - just PM me. There is absolutely no need to talk about it and I would actually recommend that you don't until you have the safety mechanisms set up that your therapist should work with you on.

Take good care of you

Shirley

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[joe69]

Thanks Shirley, much appreciated.

[Curlygirl54 in reply to joe69]

No problem Joe - here whenever needed, I'll PM you my email address

Make contact if you wish.

Take good care of you

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