News A New Perspective On Ptsd

[anthony]

Reading: http://blogs.psychcentral.com/roar/2016/03/a-new-perspective-on-ptsd/ at Psych Central, like OMFG they couldn't have it more wrong IMO.

I have a different view. Firstly I find this statement completely inaccurate:

"It may be 2016, yet with PTSD your body thinks it’s still stuck in the past during that event or events you want to forget."

I think Dr. Lisa has no idea of what PTSD actually is, or how it really interacts within the brain and body. She talks as though you can just move on with life, dissipate trauma by being. Ummm shit, is it really that easy?

I'm a little astounded that Psych Central have this approved on their blog. I see Psych Central as a professional blog, not a community, not peer support, but this is supposed to be the experts.

I understand where she is coming from, but what she is explaining is not PTSD. Firstly, she didn't add anything new to what she has stated. So there is nothing "new" there as her title claims. The only addition she is claiming to be a "new" way of thinking, is really talking about meditation type scenarios. Nothing new in that either.

Her technique: Radically Orgasmically Alive Reality (ROAR)

Ok... really? Do you really think hippie dippie shit hasn't been tried? Do you not think earth focused, out there thinking, getting naturalistic, hasn't been tried, tested and documented?

This is more hocus pocus and sounds like cultish nonsense versus psychological help for PTSD. I've never heard anyone say that they feel PTSD is the welding on an invisible cage around them. Gee... put words in clients mouths much?

Sorry, but shit like this pisses me off, especially from a Dr.

 

[twinkle30]

This is how I felt when I went to a dinner for a non profit organization that helps the mentally ill. They had all types of experts talk about all sorts of mental illnesses. Well this schizophrenia expert gets up and goes on and on about how schizophrenia is not effected by stress. So all diseases are effected by stress but not schizophrenia? I was so mad I had to leave.

 

[Ronin]

Gotta love pop psychology nonsense.

Well, glad that article got her money to sustain herself and hers by, but yeah, it's such hogwash.

 

[Stickler]

That's some organic, free-range, grass-fed, boutique-quality bullshit right there, my friends.

 

[Friday]

All of this can get turned around when you step into being the potency you truly are.

Who knew? The cure for PTSD is Viagra

 

[nursenurse]

Potent Transformation of Spacious Dissipation......??? Must have been something in her morning java to come up with that one.

 

[Fadeaway]

Thank you Anthony. That article is very dismissive and I find what she suggests to be more disempowering than acknowledging that you have PTSD.

How can anything good come of telling myself I have this disorder? A lot. Before I was diagnosed and even after before I understood it. (Thanks mostly to you Anthony) I used to beat myself up something fierce over my symptoms, not understanding they were symptoms.

Before telling myself I had PTSD, I would constantly tell myself how dumb, lazy, irrational overly emotional and crazy I was. I now know that I am not dumb, I have a scientific reason for why my mind goes blank and I just stand there like an idiot sometimes when I get spooked. It's called the freeze response. Now I have a starting place to address the problem instead of beating myself up. I know now that I am not lazy, but that my stress cup is full, I am overwhelmed, so now that my stress levels need to be addressed instead of beating myself up for not staying on top of things.

If I was simply trying to overcome or be stronger than the symptoms, I would fail miserably and hate myself for it. Understanding, acknowledging and accepting that these are symptoms of PTSD and if I have to take a pill, to get me through a rough day, then that is ok. I can accept that and it doesn't diminish who I am as a person. The label in that regard is more freeing to me, because I know longer have to beat myself up for failing as an individual.

So I will take the label (in her context) instead of beating myself up for failing for not being able to do things her way by willing myself out of my symptoms.

 

[Friday]

Soooooo many possible gripes to choose from... ROFLMFAO...
Just one more! Errr...2. Okay. 3. (Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!) Then I'm done.

1) Potent transformation of spacious dissipation... strong change roomy fade... f*cking thing sounds like bad highschool poetry had sex with a water damaged thesaurus.

2)

With PTSD you get twisted up: you’re not able to be the potent transformation of spacious dissipation that you truly be. When you’re stuck in the constriction and heaviness of a label; of the point of view that it will take 10-20 years to overcome it; or that you have to take medication; or that you’ll never get through it… guess what? That becomes your reality.

Gee. I knew I was doing something wrong! Here I was thinking it was Trauma, when all along? It's the label! :facepalm: Although, my label says "lifetime", not 10-20 years. And I didn't even know I had a label for over a decade. And then there's the- Shhhhh... It's okay. There there self. Embrace your strong change roomy fade!

3)

You are more than that. You are a walking, talking and breathing Potent Transformation of Spacious Dissipation.

I'm a walking, talking, breathing PTSD???

Da Fuq? First Dr.BrainDonor says it's my (heavy & constricting!) label that's my problem, and then she concludes that I AM my diagnosis? Clearly. My label is preventing me from becoming my label.

I'm sorry. I just really can't stop laughing. I should be pissed off. I know I should, but I am just cracking up so hard. The damn article is a gold mine of ridiculousness. They published it too early, tho. April Fools Day isn't for a few more days.

 

[nursenurse]

She is not an MD, and if you check her website it is one big sales pitch to attend seminars etc. Anyone using her flowery language in describing a treatment modality is akin to a snake oil dealer and is best left to dissipate in his/her own spaciousness.

 

[Fadeaway]

@FridayJones I bow to you. I rambled on, but your reply was perfection.

 

[anthony]

f*cking thing sounds like bad highschool poetry had sex with a water damaged thesaurus.

My mouth really hurts, full of stitches and all right now... and I think I may have busted one or two trying not to laugh so much at that. Priceless.

I understand some of where she is trying to go with things, labels and such... but the direction is not the solution. Staying in the dark is not the solution, then skipping over towards the rainbow as saviour. Knowledge is power. Educate the sufferer with what is actually wrong, suddenly they have the power to begin fixing their own shit their way, what works for them, and they stop some of the repetitive mind games they have going from symptoms self supporting one another.

I honestly suspect this is one of the doctors we struggle with, who diagnose a PTSD for a cheating spouse, aching tooth and healthy pregnancy. Don't focus on the label though... it's all in your ROAR! :confused::rolleyes::photogenic:

 

[nursenurse]

And then I got this visual of Nicolette skipping through the field of daisies in her floral maxi dress, calling out for Anthony, "Where are you, my Potent Transformation of Spacious Dissipation?"