Sufferer Anxious With Ptsd

[tink32]

Hi there, I'm a new member suffering with PTSD. I wish I weren't. I feel like I've been dealing with this forever. Does it ever end?

 

[BlueOrange]

With therapy, the symptoms do get more manageable, and some people do experience a total remission. You'll always be a person who experienced a bad thing. You'll always have memories that hurt. But you can learn to lead a normal life again, and you don't have to be a prisoner of your anxieties. Life definitely gets better.

 

[tink32]

With therapy, the symptoms do get more manageable, and some people do experience a total remission....

I've been doing CBT for 7 months once a week and have been stuck between therapists for 3 months now. I've worked most of my life but have found it almost impossible to work. Do people go back to normal work?

 

[BlueOrange]

I've been doing CBT for 7 months once a week and have been stuck between therapists for 3 months now. I...

Ah, like me, you're finding it slow and painful. I've had periods of remission up to 5 years long where I was able to work full-time in stressful, high-paid work. A lot of my issues focus around unavoidable workplace situations, and I've tended to return to work as soon as I can force myself to do it. Every time I relapse, I get a bit better at recovering from the relapse, and I revisit the foundation and strengthen it.

I've done a ton of CBT. It helped for a while, then I reached a plateau and couldn't improve further. After a while, we tried EMDR; this made me really sick for a while, but it also broke the whatever-it-was that was stopping the CBT from having full effect.

If you have a therapist who you trust to stabilize you when you feel out of control, talk to them about EMDR.

 

[Joan]

welcome to the forum. There are ups and downs....here you will encounter those doing better and those really struggling....sometimes it can go from one to the other in a matter of moments. I do think overall there is an upward trajectory. I think it always helps as well to chat with others who have similar struggles so you know that you are not alone.

 

[Deadman]

I don't know if it ever really ends but it does get better.

 

[tink32]

Ah, like me, you're finding it slow and painful. I've had periods of remission up to 5 years long wh...

I'm going to be starting with new therapist but am hesitant to have to start all over. It seems to do more harm than good although I did identify a pattern that has been lifelong. At first it was good but when getting to the very heavy part, she had taken another job. Very stressful to start again. Did it effect your work? Oh thank you so much for replying.

 

[tink32]

I don't know if it ever really ends but it does get better.

Thank you.

 

[BlueOrange]

My work has tended to suffer much more from 'not being in therapy' than from 'being in therapy'. It's a bit like going to the gym; it's painful, uncomfortable and tiring. But when you stop going, everything else gets more painful, uncomfortable and tiring.

 

[tink32]

welcome to the forum. There are ups and downs....here you will encounter those doing better and those rea...

Thank you for the info and for replying.

 

[tink32]

My work has tended to suffer much more from 'not being in therapy' than from 'being in therapy'. It'...

Yes. Afraid you may say that. My symptoms are getting out of hand.