PTSD support

[lucretiareverie]

I've been feeling very isolated due to PTSD, I was wondering if anyone else on this forum has it? I think seeing people who live like I do helps.

How do you, personally, cope with it?

 

[divinemistress87]

Yes, its very hard to live with. The fear never stops. I isolate a lot to . Ive been going to therapy for years but it hasnt helped much. Starting emdr therapy soon

 

[notreallybored]

ב''ה, I don't want to talk down EMDR because have had some firsthand glowing reviews, but aside from generally being sketched out about the 'here's how you can stop having sensible aversive fear of common situations that hurt you,' there's both some clever stuff about trying to use the eye position effects on memory to achieve that, and the apparent fact that without that or a particularly skilled practitioner the whole therapeutic interaction amounts to paying someone to nearly poke you in the eye repeatedly until you ask them to stop, possibly by deciding you're cured enough.

I'm good at taking this perspective on things, but I also showed up to untangle some complicated grief stuff to find out therapy is being asked "did you cry?" by someone really into watching males cry enough to have made a career of it, so that's life.

 

[hopeless-believer]

Yes, I struggle with cPTSD, it's very isolating at times and it's harder if you feel you are alone. It's not the case always, but often people can misunderstand, trigger and just not get the nature of the tos and fros of it all.