Another choice for treatment which is not a a med is LENS. There are no meds involved and I have had huge success since starting it in July. It is not common and you have to look for someone who does LENS but if you live near a VA hospital, you should be able to find someone. They are using...
Yes, I have nighmares every night. For the past 8 years, I haven't slept much at all and my body has adjusted. I've tried sleeping pills but my body adapts really quickly and they only work once or twice. It has only been this past week that I have really broken the not sleeping pattern. In...
Is anyone else going through the experience of having to learn everything all over again? It's been explained to me that my treatment has broken down everything I knew and I'm having to re-learn how to handle stressful situations, interacting with people, dealing with being upset and confused...
Anyone out there find any active chat rooms for PTSD? I found a chat room that is suppose to have people in it every night but NO ONE ever shows up, except myself. I'm getting frustrated since sometimes I just want to talk to someone and not post something and wait a day. Anyone else ever feel...
Hi! You need to do what is right for you. I have had to take meds in the past for a serious injury and it only masked the pain for a while. I know my body does not do well on meds, my body never responds like it should on meds so I try to avoid using them if I can. Even my treatment for my...
Hi!
LENS stands for: Low Energy Neurofeedback System
It is being used a lot now in the VA hospitals. I don't know if I can put a web link with more information here or not.
Is anyone else out there doing the LENS treatment? I'm two months into the program and had great progress but just need someone to talk to, too. Even though, I go through the same things as everyone else who is going through treatments of some type or another, it would just be nice to talk to...
Yes, I've found that doing something creative does help. I have started writing, I will force meself to work on photos in Photoshop, I will create an animation on the computer, bake something, or I will go out bike riding and see if I can ride farther than the last time I went riding. I had my...
Yes, I too have strange sleep cycles. I might have one night of really good restful sleep and the rest of the week, I'll sleep for 45 minutes and be up the rest of the night or sleep off and on the rest of the night. When I do sleep, I do have nighmares too, so the sleep is not all that...
Hi! Your not alone. I also wake up angry and it is usually after a night of 45 minutes sleep to only a couple hours of off and on sleep. I realize, now, that my anger comes not from the lack of sleep but the lack of quality sleep. Most of all the time I spend sleeping, I have nighmares, this...
Anyone else out there have issuse of thier "friends" turning thier backs on you and leaving you out in the cold while you are going throught treatment for PTSD? What do you do???? Everyone who said they would support me though treatment has turned their backs on me and instead of being...