After 25 years of looking for the right diagnosis, I was finally diagnosed with Complex PTSD only this past year (it is a brand new diagnostic term, hopefully in the DSM-V) and that was when I sought the SGB treatment....knowing nothing else so far had really helped. I do not have dissassociative disorder, however.
Is C-PTSD different from complex trauma? In any case, the injection stopped all my agitation and allowed me finally move past recurring trauma memories that haunted me since early chidhood. I could never have gone to a movie theater before, as it would trigger entrapment-related anxiety attacks......I took my kids to the movies twice this week and never worried a bit.
I do not think that the people who successfully receive the "Chicago Block" technique of the injection will ever be uncertain if it worked. In my experience, and from what others have shared, the effect is immensely profound and more than obvious. It even has its own adjustment period due to the huge perspective shift it can bring. It is a sensation that no medication ever came close to providing me, so I hope it will be an easily distinguishable result, regardless of what meds an SGB patient may have been on. Maybe Aj and IchBin can confirm. And I will let Lipov know that you are available if he is looking for "after" testimonials, Aj.....thank you.
Regarding PTSD and the military, the government has already been paying for therapies and meds for all PTSD soldiers and recognizes it completely. The US government estimate to cover military PTSD care is $650 Billion for the next 20 years (am I am hopeful the SGB procedure will save a ton of that money, if adopted). I don't think that the new condolence letters were a result of the govenment's wallet. Upon speaking with staffers for my Senator and Congressman, the concesus seems to be that the old rule of no letters was simply overlooked, and those who should know these rules were equally shocked it had never been addressed, and happy to see it addressed at last.
Obama was one of the first to push for SGB to be researched by the Pentagon, in fact.
The other large part of the problem for PTSD vets is the stigma that its has carried. I hear Vets speak at town hall meeting all the time of the shame and difficulty the diagnosis itself adds to their already difficult survival. Sadly, PTSD is one health issue that carries its own new set of anxieties by virtue of its history, stigma and misunderstanding.
Most folks think of it as a psychological disorder, when the research and applied science to the new SGB procedure proves that PTSD is not psychological but a physical, visible, biological overactivity (although it affects emotions, as many bio-abnormalities can, such as hormone or glucose abnormalities for example). This in itself is enormous change.
Is C-PTSD different from complex trauma? In any case, the injection stopped all my agitation and allowed me finally move past recurring trauma memories that haunted me since early chidhood. I could never have gone to a movie theater before, as it would trigger entrapment-related anxiety attacks......I took my kids to the movies twice this week and never worried a bit.
I do not think that the people who successfully receive the "Chicago Block" technique of the injection will ever be uncertain if it worked. In my experience, and from what others have shared, the effect is immensely profound and more than obvious. It even has its own adjustment period due to the huge perspective shift it can bring. It is a sensation that no medication ever came close to providing me, so I hope it will be an easily distinguishable result, regardless of what meds an SGB patient may have been on. Maybe Aj and IchBin can confirm. And I will let Lipov know that you are available if he is looking for "after" testimonials, Aj.....thank you.
Regarding PTSD and the military, the government has already been paying for therapies and meds for all PTSD soldiers and recognizes it completely. The US government estimate to cover military PTSD care is $650 Billion for the next 20 years (am I am hopeful the SGB procedure will save a ton of that money, if adopted). I don't think that the new condolence letters were a result of the govenment's wallet. Upon speaking with staffers for my Senator and Congressman, the concesus seems to be that the old rule of no letters was simply overlooked, and those who should know these rules were equally shocked it had never been addressed, and happy to see it addressed at last.
Obama was one of the first to push for SGB to be researched by the Pentagon, in fact.
The other large part of the problem for PTSD vets is the stigma that its has carried. I hear Vets speak at town hall meeting all the time of the shame and difficulty the diagnosis itself adds to their already difficult survival. Sadly, PTSD is one health issue that carries its own new set of anxieties by virtue of its history, stigma and misunderstanding.
Most folks think of it as a psychological disorder, when the research and applied science to the new SGB procedure proves that PTSD is not psychological but a physical, visible, biological overactivity (although it affects emotions, as many bio-abnormalities can, such as hormone or glucose abnormalities for example). This in itself is enormous change.