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Psychiatrist Said Therapy Has High Success Rate For Curing Ptsd
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It depends on a lot of factors, IMO. People keep telling me about medication that can help, but I also know that medication is a big mistake with my TBI history.
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Okay, but is traditional talk therapy the way you do this?
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Therapy, regardless which works for you, can completely heal trauma and remove PTSD symptoms. If cure floats your boat, then you can use it... but science does not validate curing mental health conditions as opposed to recovering them, as they aren't close to fully understood. Cure is more often used in physiological conditions. Even cancer, if the signs and symptoms are removed mostly or completely, the accurate term is remission. If nothing is found within 5 years after remission, then some doctors say you're cured, but in actual fact, you're highly likely to see cancer return again as that is what cancer does.
PTSD is similar. Therapy has shown to fix known physiological aspects found in the brain, but that is more due to malleability of our own system due to therapy, or assisted by therapy reducing our thoughts that create both mental and physical issues. Our thoughts do both... and therapy can undo both with time.
Not a whole lot is really known about the true foundations of PTSD. Science is working backwards on the issue, yet to discover the root cause.
I would not personally use cure, as the science shows that with exposure to excessive life stress or another traumatic event, symptoms are highly likely to return. With each traumatic event experienced, PTSD tends to worsen, even after all the initial therapy that removed it first time around.
I think treat is a good word. Heal trauma, treat PTSD... but I wouldn't apply cure to it unless you basically did similar to cancer, where you haven't experienced any symptoms for 5+ years with normal life stressors and such.
PTSD is similar. Therapy has shown to fix known physiological aspects found in the brain, but that is more due to malleability of our own system due to therapy, or assisted by therapy reducing our thoughts that create both mental and physical issues. Our thoughts do both... and therapy can undo both with time.
Not a whole lot is really known about the true foundations of PTSD. Science is working backwards on the issue, yet to discover the root cause.
I would not personally use cure, as the science shows that with exposure to excessive life stress or another traumatic event, symptoms are highly likely to return. With each traumatic event experienced, PTSD tends to worsen, even after all the initial therapy that removed it first time around.
I think treat is a good word. Heal trauma, treat PTSD... but I wouldn't apply cure to it unless you basically did similar to cancer, where you haven't experienced any symptoms for 5+ years with normal life stressors and such.
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If there were a cure for PTSD it would be a headline in every major paper around the world. So I think it's pretty safe to say, that since that hasn't happened? No cure, so far.
PTSD costs governments hundreds of millions (lowball estimate, probably billions if not hundreds of billions once we go multinational, and factor in decades of care) in vets alone, and that's before taking into account socialized countries that take care of citizens, too, via public health / disability a person can actually live off of, etc. The wars of the past decade, and the threat of looming wars to come have governments scrambling trying to fund research on PTSD. I'd like to say for altruistic reasons, but I'm sure the expense of taking care of wounded soldiers enters in just a smidge ;). Because right now? It's a total & permanent disability. Life long disorder. And that's (governmental bottom lines) just one aspect of a complex problem.
We can treat PTSD. We can treat Cancer. We can treat Diabetes. No cures for any of them, yet. At least, not as far as I'm aware.
PTSD costs governments hundreds of millions (lowball estimate, probably billions if not hundreds of billions once we go multinational, and factor in decades of care) in vets alone, and that's before taking into account socialized countries that take care of citizens, too, via public health / disability a person can actually live off of, etc. The wars of the past decade, and the threat of looming wars to come have governments scrambling trying to fund research on PTSD. I'd like to say for altruistic reasons, but I'm sure the expense of taking care of wounded soldiers enters in just a smidge ;). Because right now? It's a total & permanent disability. Life long disorder. And that's (governmental bottom lines) just one aspect of a complex problem.
We can treat PTSD. We can treat Cancer. We can treat Diabetes. No cures for any of them, yet. At least, not as far as I'm aware.
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And he used the word "cure" sure enough. I wish I knew what data he was referring to.
It "can" commonly and reliably? Or it "can" under the best possible circumstances with the best possible therapist? I have seen five therapists so far, and they have all been useless or worse.
Nope. I was treatment resistant to the conventional cognitive therapies. We do Somatic Experiencing with a touch of emdr and brainspotting. Totally the opposite of exposure therapy that folks have been posting about.
Here is the thing, you can ask that question here and get a variety of different answers. The true answer lies within your own experience. You can't take my experience, or anyone else here, and overlay it into what you are doing. Everyone has a different definition. If your goal is to be symptom free and that in your mind equals "cure" then so be it. That is the goal you work toward. The thing we all have in common is the fight to get there. Many of our symptoms are similar but each of us has a unique experience in solving them.
I want to be symptom free. Not have a freak out over certain things, dates, smells, sounds, etc. In my mind, that is a cure for me. I am getting there. It has taken a lot of time and trust to get the ball rolling. Sometimes I fumble the ball and the other team scores, but it important that I remember the game isn't over yet... Good luck!
I want to be symptom free. Not have a freak out over certain things, dates, smells, sounds, etc. In my mind, that is a cure for me. I am getting there. It has taken a lot of time and trust to get the ball rolling. Sometimes I fumble the ball and the other team scores, but it important that I remember the game isn't over yet... Good luck!
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I am holding out in hope that it is true. Throwing everything at therapy to recover. Otherwise will lose everything.
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I think what anthony said is the best definition. I have improved so much but still have lingering anxiety symptoms which I am working on with exposures.
I so wanted to be healed at the beginning of my process in therapy, but overall I am living a better life now.
Whatever happens good luck! Who knows, it could happen.
I so wanted to be healed at the beginning of my process in therapy, but overall I am living a better life now.
Whatever happens good luck! Who knows, it could happen.
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