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I have not found any meds or therapy helpful to me in my PTSD recovery at all. I also do not like going to therapy because enough of my life has been wasted on the trauma. What I think helps me is self-care, a positive way of doing exposure therapy on myself, and talking about what has come up...

Bookoffee, I didn't see the extent of the emotional abuse from your various posts at first, and I feel bad for getting the wrong impression at one point. I can see now how important it was for you to get away from this emotional abuse, and I think it's awesome and pride-worthy that you did...

@Lady McCormick thank you for this information. Can you cite it for me to follow up? I showed my husband some MDMA information, and it was about a women who could not talk about her trauma previously. I also found a woman who had remembered much of her traumas in childhood, but under MDMA...

I read that C-PTSD is going to be in the ICD, but not DSM soon. And that a major defining distinction is that C-PTSD folks tend to chronically feel lower than they should about themselves and push others away out of habit. Self isolate. While BPD have ups and downs with both; high and low on...

I was told my a therapist that when someone "close" to you (genetically or family wise) has something happen to them, death, divorce, illness, etc. that it feels like its actually creeping towards ourselves. I still don't get it, but that's what they say. With PTSD, I feel like death is...

Welcome and thank you for trying to save that person. I do think that matters in the end. You helped tons of people and we are all sleeping safer in our beds at night because of you. Thank you. I've lived in dangerous foreign places; nothing else gives me a true appreciation of the kind of...

I also agree with Whiteraven and perpetuating the bad guy stereotype. As one who has studied literature, I would suggest that emerging new ways of seeing have to deal with the current stereotypes at some level. It isn't really possible to make sense to a wide audience largely uneducated in...

I watched "Chance" and actually found it very healing. I felt "Understood." So as trite as that sounds, very little fiction makes me feel that way post severe flashbacks and abbreaction. I felt a lot of compassion for all the characters and felt it was a decent work of fiction at least. Not...

MDMA-assisted and Cognitive-Behavioral Conjoint Therapy (CBCT) in Dyads With One Member With Chronic PTSD - Full Text View - ClinicalTrials.gov I emailed about participating in a study with my spouse (he'd have to take MDMA, too!). I haven't discussed it yet with him to ask if he'd be willing...

Correct, it's not the street drug. It's a therapeutic dose of MDMA with clinical protections in place for bad reactions, chills, dehydration, etc. Also, it's combined with 8 hours of intense psychotherapy with set targets. Some critics are concerned about permanent brain damage from MDMA...

The US FDA just approved MDMA (Nov. 16) for clinical trials phase 3 for MDMA for PTSD talk therapy: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/29/us/ptsd-mdma-ecstasy.html Phase 3 will require over 200 participants in the study. Here is one advert for the study...

Sometimes we fixate on something broad "Death" to understand something small and particular inside our experience and emotions that still needs to be processed or re-processed for our new circumstances. As a parent now, you may have to work through some stuff you thought you already processed...

I can so relate to this, even if I try to hide this from myself and others all the time. What appears to me is that every "good day" or every "success" is engulfed by this black hole of my traumatic past and PTSD life. PTSD and trying to move forward often feels like a game whereby I never...

Why try things out on depression and then take them into PTSD trials? Why not go searching for PTSD treatment from the start? I guess that makes no logical sense to me and must be down to money. No other reason. I assume more people (with any disorder conceivable) seek help for the...

To answer your questions: 1. As a rule, I do NOT report my PTSD or anything else medical to employers prior or after employment; 2. I have (once) reported my PTSD to a Supervisor, and to my employees, who I knew for 8 years, verbally, not in writing, to request informal accommodations, which...

I am a chronic, lifetime PTSD sufferer about to turn 40. Damned if I don't do something to help find a decent treatment of any kind. Yoga was helpful to me in feeling better overall during a time of almost remission, but gave me massive headaches. I'm not sure why. SSRI's made me feel...

Thank you @Poofycat @theshadowoftheliving @gizmo @whiteraven I can't tell you have much I appreciate your taking the time to reply with compassion today. You've given me a sense of peace and time to think about this. I do agree that therapy would be ideal. I do think I should be better off...

I'm glad you put your health first. I may have to remember that some time. Thanks for sharing that. I'd love to see you knife that turkey. :p Maybe later you'll laugh about it. Not sure. But I could see the humor of it I guess. I hope you and your family enjoy having you home for Christmas...

My experience confirms you are right in this. Interesting name you have. My sister called me Raven years ago. Prior to yesterday's issue with the headache and feeling the "chatterbox" (desperate to relate vs. stay more separate) self emerging, I was in a psy state and unwittingly learning...

I am increasingly co-conscious and aware of switching/fronting. Sometimes a strong emotion precedes a switch and I don't know it has happened until it's already happening. I believe I am 100% co-con. but with a part that forces amnesia on other parts, such that I am not able to remember things...

Today was the last day at work for a while. Sorry if I can't write full sentences while I struggle with this. I do much better within a routine. As a routine is ending, I sort of don't know what to do? I feel a sort of big ??? inside me. So I got a headache that started out small and became...

For me, this kind of reaction happens sometimes, and sometimes not. It's been a lot better for me since I moved far away from the abusers, so I do think fear levels matter. Reduce fear and chronic stressers and you may see this symptom lessen or diminish entirely. It's hard to say, because...

Cars are easier to operate when in PTSD modes than a bike, for me, that's for sure. I couldn't keep the bike perpendicular enough to get out of the cul-de-sac. :rolleyes:

I can't find it now, but from all my research online about DID, this is frequently mentioned, not diagnostically, but annecdotally, meaning that clinicians see a high correlation between what you said, feeling totally like the black sheep of the family, and feeling isolated from the siblings...

Leaving until it passes is an acceptable option if you feel safe enough to do so, but not if you're flashing back. Can you go outside and punch something or shovel snow or dig a hole and fill it back up again? I often go into "fight" mode and need to rage a bit, verbally or get some physical...