Advice Needed

[EvenStrongerNow]

Hi, Can you guys help me find some resources and/or retreats for non-veterans suffering with PTSD? Every time I try to google, things are so expensive or it is only for veterans.

I feel like I need more than Psychotherapy. I have been in it for 3 years. It helps, but not enough and quickly enough.

I don't have a lot of money either.

 

[Deleted member 1860]

Hi are you looking for more of a spa treatment or something more intensive? There are a variety of programs out there. Unfortunately none I've been to are cheap, as one was around $10k for 2 weeks, the other around $30k for 3 weeks. I'm sure others have cheaper suggestions! Are you insured? Some programs are covered by insurance. My 2 week program wasn't covered but it was some of the best treatment I'd ever received and if god forbid I'd need more of it, I wouldn't hesitate to take on that debt.

 

[EvenStrongerNow]

I am not insured yet. I will be before March though.

A friend of mine who suffers from combat PTSD today told me to consider looking into SSDI while I am going through this and having so much trouble with working.

It sounds nice and all, but I am so afraid of what people will think of me especially my husband who is a real go getter. I don't know why I'm afraid.

 

[arfie]

Hope you find something, StrongerNow. This is not a safe neighborhood to travel alone. Unfortunately, anything professional is either outrageously expensive, even with "good" insurance or outrageously over-extended with waiting lists to inspire desperation. Please keep looking, getting on waiting lists and whatever, until something fits.

Alanon was my first real help with PTSD, back before there was such a diagnosis as PTSD. Most members of Alanon and AA could qualify for the diagnosis, if they cared to pursue it.

Wherever you find your connection, I am rooting for you.

 

[EvenStrongerNow]

Thanks arfie! I have been to Al Anon before. I get triggered so much by the stories. I went like a hand full of times and each time, I left in a panic and at times, I was crying. I know it would be good for me, I just hate feeling and expressing emotion around other people that I don't know. There are too many elements at play. And that is so unlike me. Before PTSD took over, I was extremely outgoing and expressive.

 

[Tinyflame]

There are different AlAnn groups StrongerNow. When I went I didn't express emotion like that. And I asked my sponsor privately the hard questions. If anything we always ended with a hug. The sanity and safety/ security was a real relief and reprieve.

 

[Stanley Shi-Yume]

I feel as lost as you and I feel this ache reading up on my fellow people here, hearing you but having nothing to offer beyond that listening. We need to collectively start our own approach to this. We live in a sick society that hasn't yet begun to focus on the ones it has made sick

To me it has felt a bit like I just don't have to resources to run my life/family and at the same time try to engage PTSD processing, working on myself and my own care. It requires energy that just gets used up on daily routine and everyone else.

 

[EvenStrongerNow]

To me it has felt a bit like I just don't have to resources to run my life/family and at the same time try to engage PTSD processing, working on myself and my own care. It requires energy that just gets used up on daily routine and everyone else.

Exactly!