Psychiatrist Said Therapy Has High Success Rate For Curing Ptsd

[anthony]

It "can" commonly and reliably?

The majority, statistically based, fully recover PTSD with no further signs or symptoms.

You only need to meet a criterion A event and experience symptoms for a month to be diagnosed. Most diagnosed with PTSD are at the lower scale, hence the majority fully recover. It is normal to fully recover as the majority.

Now... you have to put yourself on the scale of least to most severe, then that will tell you the work and struggle you have ahead.

There are people here who came here with complex and severe cases, are recovered now and participating in life. They did the work, they changed their lifestyles to encompass PTSD, they did everything possible to make their life better... it worked for them.

You have some who do all of that and still suffer. Why? Well... the experts don't know that answer. That leaves us individually with... do your best and see what works for you.

Nope. I was treatment resistant to the conventional cognitive therapies. We do Somatic Experiencing with a touch of EMDR and brainspotting.

That is what works for you... and you still talk to your therapist about aspects, which is a requirement of somatic therapies. Yes?

Somatic therapies often work well with those where DBT is required, often complex trauma, sexual abuse is a huge one for somatic therapies.

PE works best on military. ACT works best on those with dual alcoholic and trauma problems, and then you could combine it with any number of therapy/s beyond that, somatic too.

I don't understand this recent influx of members questioning specific types of therapies and making assertions that one is better than the other as a fact, when talking about themselves.

Unbeknownst to most, your therapist is actually using a multiple constant combination of therapy types in treating you... that is factual. They often just use one umbrella term at a time.

 

[Crow]

Beautifully explained @anthony. I in no way meant to say SE is better than ET. Just that SE has worked miracles for me. I apologize if I came across otherwise.

 

[Dana1010]

Now... you have to put yourself on the scale of least to most severe, then that will tell you the work and struggle you have ahead.

I am wondering if developmental trauma that goes all the way back to early childhood tends to go deeper and be harder to heal. This is compared to someone who suffered a single trauma as an adult.

 

[Gs172003]

The majority, statistically based, fully recover PTSD with no further signs or symptoms.

You only need to...

Not mine anymore. She just wants to do exposure therapy She's hard core, man.
She did do prep work first. But then I asked her about dbt and she has approved that for now cause I have to slow down my therapy this winter.
Unless...she's sneaking something in...

 

[anthony]

I am wondering if developmental trauma that goes all the way back to early childhood tends to go deeper and be harder to heal.

That is already pretty much the conclusive factual basis ascertained today within the expert logic. Not whether trauma happened in childhood, but longevity trauma, developmental level.

Whilst both heinous, there is a very different majority outcome for a child abused for a short period versus long period of developmental years.

Saying that... there are those who endure longevity developmental abuse and blossom into adulthood and get on with life without any significant PTSD style symptoms. Sure, they usually have an issue or two in some way, but nothing that usually inhibits their ability to function and participate in life.

 

[Gs172003]

That is already pretty much the conclusive factual basis ascertained today within the expert logic. Not whe...

I wish I could agree with this. My grandma was horrid to her kids. All five of them. She was crap to me but nothing like she was to her kids. Out of her five...

One has never worked and lost all three of her kids. Was an alcoholic and a drug addict. One turned into a narcissist.
One, a hermit with a serious anger problem., one a woman that is the epic "cat lady". I have no idea what her actual diagnosis is but she at the very least is extremely depressed. And then my mom. She's the most " sane" of them all trying to keep the family intact and she has her own stuff from her life.

All of these people are 45 to 65.

You would think that when they were on their own they'd eventually be OK. Especially the ones that moved out of state. That didn't happen.

Why do you think that is?

Most of these people I don't talk to anymore for various reasons.

 

[anthony]

Trauma is unique and individual... there is no right answer to who if affects or how it affects them.

It is factual though that some are not affected, others are.

 

[Gs172003]

Trauma is unique and individual... there is no right answer to who if affects or how it affects them.

It i...

They were all affected but in very different ways. My thing is, they never really grew out of it if that makes sense.

Anywhooo.....back to the topic!

 

[Panda Bear]

Cure....no.

Heal and treat....yes.

I am one of them who put it all in the bag, found the right therapist, worked my ass off, slogged through the shit, found the right medication, stuck out the crazy and lived to see the other side. And I'm not a lucky one who had minimal trauma exposure.....there is plenty of messed up shit.

My trauma has been healed, my symptoms have been treated. This isn't to say that I may slide one day and need a tune up of sorts. I'll likely always need T on some level. I'll never be out from under having to be mindful of my symptoms and keep them at bay. While my trauma has been healed, my symptoms will always need attention.

They just don't consume me anymore like the used to, but they could if I get lazy and sloppy.

 

[Abstract]

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.

It sounds like you are wanting to know if yours will be cured/successfully treated.

I believe in the potential for everyone (as a concept). But we will all need different and various things to get there and have different things standing in our way. Getting there depends on managing all these as well as other unknown factors about PTSD. Some will just need a little time and some rest, others will need excellent therapy for a long time and to throw everything in the book at it and more. And they may need to get past roadblocks that impeded that happening. For example personality issues (example an inability to admit weakness ). attachment issues (you need to be able to tolerate some sort of "relationship" with a therapist to get there) dissociation (controlling it and understanding it) and any number of other things. And finding the right therapist as well as working on things within oneself stopping one from allowing that to happen. If there is a problem with therapy is it the therapists, the skill level of the therapist, or is partly us. For some people its a simple straight path and for others its a matter of figuring these things out and finding what we need.

For many its not a Get therapy = gauranteed recovery and rather a Getting what we individually need and working hard at it = recovering/curing to the extent that we are able.

I tend to just try to focus on doing all I can and planning it through in its entirety and leave the end point to itself. I focus on progress and by that I don't mean a reduction of pain and rather a further point in my journey whether that be a painful place or a less painful place.

If things haven't worked in the past I think its very wise to really pries apart why they didn't and make sure you change that.

 

[Richie]

It sounds like you are wanting to know if yours will be cured/successfully treated.

I believe in the [...

I wholeheartedly agree with the last thing said. I was at a psychology/pseudoscience conference today and the fact is that psychologists still know very little about the brain and how it works. It is such a complex thing and lets face facts, studying the brain is not like other sciences like geology where the object is sitting there in front of them doing nothing beyond inanimate existence. People are individuals and our minds work differently even when given 2 choices. An example used today was a scenario where you get shot in the arm during a bank robbery. The question was whether you think you were lucky or unlucky (regarding a theory on the validity of luck as a concept). Neither answer is correct because it is merely perception (lucky you got shot in the arm instead of the head or unlucky because you were shot at all).
the point is that psychology is still trying to answer a lot of questions and some will have no definitive answer. The science is still very experimental therefore so is the treatment! Some treatments will not work for some people (or symptoms) so the therapist should be continually analysing and changing things to help the sufferer. Dont give up and dont let a therapist give up either. The odds of a quick fix are virtually zero so we need to work together to achieve anything and we all have the same goal.

 

[Deleted member 487]

I don't trust psychiatrists. Last one I saw was ok, but there have been a couple that made my life hell. Misdiagnose me as bi-polar, get me on meds that my head injury history couldn't handle, I was more of a mental mess with the dope than without.