Anyone overcome PTSD?

[Lordsudbury]

If you have can we please talk about strategy and methods? I'm losing it.

Much thanks ta

 

[Myforevercharlie]

I got EMDR therapy. But I'm not sure if what I have is PTSD, trauma yes.
It did help a bit with the feeling it ruled my life.

Apparently a lot of army veterans got that treatment as well. There are many good articles online and stories of people who got the therapy

 

[muffin222]

I haven't overcome PTSD by any stretch of the imagination, but here are some methods that allow me to cope and manage my symptoms:

- Meditation (10 minutes a day is plenty)
-Breathwork and deep breathing
-Trauma therapy, if you can access it
-Mindfulness (I take a deep breath and focus my full attention on what's right in front of me or whatever task I'm doing, instead of on my thoughts)
-Journaling and writing down my feelings, even if it's just "I hate my life"
-30 minutes of cardio at least 5 days a week
-Music
-Allowing myself to feel my emotions fully, no matter how painful. This helps to process the trauma and the emotional pain more fully. We have to feel to heal
-Allowing myself to mourn and grieve the life I lost due to the trauma. Remember that grief is a process, and that we all cycle through the stages of grief differently. For example, I can swing from angry one to day sad the next, or I can cycle through every stage in one day. Or, I may wake up one day feeling like I've accepted what's happened to me, only to be triggered back into profound grief or anger or even shock. Everyone grieves differently, and that's totally normal.
- Researching trauma, PTSD, and stages of healing from trauma. Learn as much as you can about PTSD and how it impacts you and your life
- Join, or at least lurk and read, online sites and support groups for PTSD survivors. Myptsd.com is a great site I frequently visit.
-Most of all, be gentle and kind with yourself! Self-compassion is so important. Remember that healing from trauma is NOT linear, and it's normal to feel like you're taking two steps forward and one step back. It's a long and tiring process

I wish you the very best on your healing journey, and I hope this helps

 

[Life sucks]

I'm not sure if this is called healing, it got replaced long time ago by many other problems like depression and I became completely dissociated from it. Also Sometimes I be anhedonic and it doesn't matter but a problem replaced by a problem isn't a solution.Traumas replaced by traumas, and for the later traumas, time is kind of doing some healing and sometimes I'm trying to distract and enjoy as much as possible.

Do what you want and enjoy and avoid the people who hurt you. I hope this helps

 

[StuFin]

I think I have, Pete Walkers book from surviving to thriving is ver good, especially the bits about controlling emoitonal flashbacks.

I also use breathing/meditating, mindfulness and trying to control my feelings rather than my feelings controlling me (using the methods in the book above).

 

[Jumper Geo]

If you have can we please talk about strategy and methods? I'm losing it.

Much thanks ta

Hiya,

I live in the UK and I done a thread on a couple who cured people of PTSD but I think a private session will set you back maybe 5/10K they did approach the NHS to train people but they refused, but every case I have seen them take on had positive results. They are always featured on a UK show called This Morning.

https://sanctioned-suicide.net/thre...rapists-cured-ptsd-and-extreme-phobias.41461/

Good luck

Geo

 

[Squiddy]

I've come quite a little ways, but I'm not cured. What's helped me is taking Prazosin which helps my nightmares a little

 

[Kramer]

Watch and do the meditation daily. Look up TheHonestGuys and Mindfulness Meditation on YouTube.

 

[Lordsudbury]

Watch and do the meditation daily. Look up TheHonestGuys and Mindfulness Meditation on YouTube.

Thanks. I'm familiar with these kind of channels; but I watched them so much nonstop for so long I hated relying on them as a vice to help me sleep so I had to cut them out

 

[Kramer]

Thanks. I'm familiar with these kind of channels; but I watched them so much nonstop for so long I hated relying on them as a vice to help me sleep so I had to cut them out

We all rely on something. You rely on your bed to give you a comfortable sleep when you could sleep on the floor.

 

[Lordsudbury]

We all rely on something. You rely on your bed to give you a comfortable sleep when you could sleep on the floor.

Yeah, I just hated feeling like I was addicted to them, and only ever needed them after an emotional breakdown/vulnerable time so they reminded me of dark times and just being broken