Flashbacks are killing me

[FindingHome]

When people say PTSD is a life sentence, it really is. My flashbacks don't go away and are causing me to become suicidal. I cannot take this any longer. No amount of medications can stop these flashbacks. It is HELL living like this. My day can be going well and suddenly a flashback comes and it changes me completely as a person. I don't know what to do anymore. Trauma is the reason I am not well. It not because I have some mental illness. It's the trauma. There is no end in sight. My only solution now is to end my life because as someone put it here PTSD is a life sentence. I want out.

 

[todienomore]

Are you on discord? Ive been following a really good advanced health group there, you might mine their knowledge base for relevant supplements. I think conventional pharma and psych is fairly useless if not harmful. I searched on their earlier and several guys were swearing by a simple amino called l-carnosine for ptsd, particularly in a liposomal form. You would want to keep researching and carefully trial what seems promising. Supplements are never a free lunch or a silver bullet. The discord is called Nootopics.

I know it sounds impossible that a simple amino could make a big difference, but my friend had a decade of unsolvable insomnia after a car wreck brain injury and finally a dr gave her a certain amino that fixed it. So studd like that is worth a try.

Low dose naltrexone to reset endorphins also comes to mind for ptsd.

You might also look into emdr, somatic therapy, and trauma release exercises.

 

[Rational man]

Your pain sounds awful.I too experience flashbacks, dating back from my narcissistic family abuse. Ive had counselling and maybe the pain is less severe but still, i feel scarred because the narcissistic abuse shaped me in childhood.

 

[prezmyl]

When people say PTSD is a life sentence, it really is. My flashbacks don't go away and are causing me to become suicidal. I cannot take this any longer. No amount of medications can stop these flashbacks. It is HELL living like this. My day can be going well and suddenly a flashback comes and it changes me completely as a person. I don't know what to do anymore. Trauma is the reason I am not well. It not because I have some mental illness. It's the trauma. There is no end in sight. My only solution now is to end my life because as someone put it here PTSD is a life sentence. I want out.

maybe try some new therapy, if you have not try it yet.....best shot probably therapist who has got more complex training back round, it seems to be new trend now (more biology, physiology, neurology is added to the mix) ...therapist with some combination of some sort of Somatic(i know of somatic experiencing), nervous system knowledge, still someone who has degree in psychology and can be hold accountable.
It seems to be all about building capacity of neurological system and titrating symptoms and very gentle over the time discharging of the survival energy as in oppose to some older exposure approaches or some spiritual pracitses that were very cathartic and dangerous causing a lot of additional harm or even psychosis as spiritual crises so be very careful to reach for something new gentle with deep scientific backround

 

[FuneralCry]

That sounds so torturous what you are going through, it's just so incredibly cruel how people suffer like this all through no fault of their own. But anyway best wishes.

 

[FindingHome]

Are you on discord? Ive been following a really good advanced health group there, you might mine their knowledge base for relevant supplements. I think conventional pharma and psych is fairly useless if not harmful. I searched on their earlier and several guys were swearing by a simple amino called l-carnosine for ptsd, particularly in a liposomal form. You would want to keep researching and carefully trial what seems promising. Supplements are never a free lunch or a silver bullet. The discord is called Nootopics.

I know it sounds impossible that a simple amino could make a big difference, but my friend had a decade of unsolvable insomnia after a car wreck brain injury and finally a dr gave her a certain amino that fixed it. So studd like that is worth a try.

Low dose naltrexone to reset endorphins also comes to mind for ptsd.

You might also look into emdr, somatic therapy, and trauma release exercises.

No I am not on discord. Thank you for the information.