Hello Rumors, if you put the effort in copying my text into the message it is that much easier for you to quote me accurately. "Mine [PTSD] cannot be managed with therapy: I TRIED everything" is not equal to "Nothing works for me". The first statement is a statement of objective fact about the past. Your paraphrase speaks of the present. I hope you aren't suggesting that stating a fact is not conducive to healing because facts are important to me.
About your remaining points I don't even know were to begin. Your comments seem to ignore not only information in the entire post you quoted from, but even the actual quoted passage: If I "tried everything" regarding therapies, then I did had an open mind about therapy. Your posted quote includes the information that I have been on Xanax for over 20 years so you know I have been affected that long, so if I tried all therapies over at least 20 years (actually 30). That is certainly "letting something work", so according to you something should have worked, so why didn't it?
I have tried many drugs, but only sedatives work. A psychiatrist gave me Xoloft which caused my worst flashback in 20 years because the idiots was too stupid to realize that drugs of this type do what LSD does to a greater extent: Increase serotonin levels. My brain recognized the increased serotonin, saw similarities between the Xoloft state and the LSD state set off a horrendous flashback, fear and additionally engrained avoidance behavior. Other psychiatrists misdiagnosed me for 12 years at which point other doctors told we I was chronic because the original doctors didn't address the trauma in a timely fashion. The worst of the lot did real damage. The best of them did not help me at all.
I have seen approximately 75 psychiatrist and psychologists in my life, many of which claimed to be trauma experts and I got nowhere except broke. Why in God's name would I do that again? Have you considered an obvious possibility? I may be damaged beyond repair. There are such people, just do a search for videos of WWI shell shocked soldiers. Many of those people never recovered and if transported to today would likely be just as untreatable.
Yes, I am more qualified to know about my condition! Full stop. Period. I explained at age 13 that my condition was a result of an LSD trip, the "experts" took 12 years to come to the same conclusion. I showed a psychiatrist at 15 (1978, before the creation of the diagnosis PTSD) that I had 8 of 10 criteria for shell shock and told her I had I kind of civilian shell shock-like condition, she disagreed, denied a trauma was involved which was again refuted by all doctor's 10 years later. My opinions, judgments, and understand of my condition has been proven superior to these saviors of your over and over. My last psychologist conceded to me that my approach to handling children after school shootings was superior to what he was trained to do and what they current do, so I even have a professional's opinion that I am qualified.
You are right about me not being here to whine about how crapy PTSD is. Why the hell would I want to do that and what constructive purpose does it serve. I am not into sympathy, just solutions.
You seem to be bringing baggage to this post from someplace that has nothing to do with this thread. Your comment is full of assumptions, misquotes, and indignation (over what I have no idea). I do not know what "ideology" you are talking about. If it is the ideology that that my condition could be cured surgically, I am not promoting a yet to exist procedure on anyone.
