i'm hoping to hear from anyone who has gone through treatment and who has then successfully gone back to doing what they were doing at work, pre-PTSD?
I have been working throughout, but in a non-operational capacity. before PTSD, my job involved manually handling deceased persons and attending major crime scenes. my trauma involved witnessing a murder many years ago, which was triggered by attending a job last year (which did not involve dead bodies). its now become clear that I disassociated after witnessing the murder.
I honestly do not know how I feel about trying to get out there again. Its completely my choice. I can continue being non-operational but I don't know if that's what I want.
if you are basically symptom free and have processed the original trauma, is it likely that symptoms will return just by working with dead bodies again, considering violent death was a major part of my trauma? I was not impacted by attending at the mortuary greatly before, so I think I will be okay, but I just don't know. if you only have one trauma, is it more likely that you can move past it and ptsd can become a thing of the past?
I have been working throughout, but in a non-operational capacity. before PTSD, my job involved manually handling deceased persons and attending major crime scenes. my trauma involved witnessing a murder many years ago, which was triggered by attending a job last year (which did not involve dead bodies). its now become clear that I disassociated after witnessing the murder.
I honestly do not know how I feel about trying to get out there again. Its completely my choice. I can continue being non-operational but I don't know if that's what I want.
if you are basically symptom free and have processed the original trauma, is it likely that symptoms will return just by working with dead bodies again, considering violent death was a major part of my trauma? I was not impacted by attending at the mortuary greatly before, so I think I will be okay, but I just don't know. if you only have one trauma, is it more likely that you can move past it and ptsd can become a thing of the past?