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    Can you lose your soul? PTSD and emotional "reduction"

    First let me say that I'm grateful for your contributions and I really regret not reaching out sooner. It really gives me hope in a seemingly hopeless situation. @hithere @Ronin I instantly bought the book! I also read something about that among the dozens of articles about the topic I've read...
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    Can you lose your soul? PTSD and emotional "reduction"

    At heart I am a rationalist. I really am a fan of the scientific method which means approaching reality by using reason and evidence. As an open and somewhat empathic person I am also tolerant of other approaches like religion, spiritual stuff and so on. I find them useful myself from time to...
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    Can you lose your soul? PTSD and emotional "reduction"

    At the moment I don't have a lot of new information to share. My PTSD seems to betting better every day now and I've become way more rational the last days but the soul issue is still the same and it's far worse than PTSD for me. I always knew I can overcome my PTSD but getting back my soul? I'm...
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    Can you lose your soul? PTSD and emotional "reduction"

    Thanks guys. Your input means a lot to me. I will do exactly that - Focus on what I can do and just hope that eventually the soul will return or I can build a new one so to speak. Just a thought: I always noticed the presence of my soul like a light if I was doing some serious introspection. I...
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    Can you lose your soul? PTSD and emotional "reduction"

    Hey Ronin. It was a really toxic,complicated dynamic. What I did wasn't that bad although it was a little bit more than yelling. I also blamed them for weeks for not helping me enough, playing the victim. That alone is bad enough but not enough to lose your soul but as my soul was already...
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    Can you lose your soul? PTSD and emotional "reduction"

    Thanks for all your great posts. They really were valuable to me and I understand my problems a lot better know. I am really on unfamiliar territory right now. No one can explain to me what happened exactly. I think maybe a good way of describing the problem is that I lost my "inner child". I...
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    Can you lose your soul? PTSD and emotional "reduction"

    I am not sure why I can't comprehend this sentence but do you think they are retrievable? I definitely experienced soul loss and I've never experienced something so frightening in my life. Is this damage permanent? Will I never be able to love (again)? Someone here who knows what I'm talking...
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    Can you lose your soul? PTSD and emotional "reduction"

    Wow so many good answers! I feel relieved I'm not the only one who goes through this. I try to follow your advice and learn from your experience. So a little bit of additional info why I think I "lost" my soul . After I had the traumatic experience I panicked and tried to safe my old self as...
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    Can you lose your soul? PTSD and emotional "reduction"

    Hello great people from the myptsd forum, This is my first thread here. I have some questions. After the trauma 2 years ago I've had problems with a splitted self and a general chaos in my brain related to emotions, aggresion and other aspects of the soul. After 2 years of trying to treat...
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