RobustConviction
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Hello. You can call me RC.
I'm 24(f) now, but my trauma happened 8 years ago. I was diagnosed with delayed-onset PTSD two years ago by a Japanese doctor. Treatment in Japan is basically meds, and so I went on those for a while, and then went off of them when I went back to the US.
Now I'm back in Japan and have relapsed something terrible. I went to the doctor and got re-diagnosed (I live in a different part of Japan now) and have restarted the same meds regiment I was on before. It's been almost two weeks now, but I'm not really feeling any better yet. If anything, I feel a little worse...
The doctor made a point of telling me that the meds were a good idea for now, but that if I didn't talk to anybody about any of this, the problem won't really go away. It's a pretty progressive opinion for a Japanese doctor, because counselling is extremely expensive here and not an option for me. Even if it were, although I do speak Japanese, I feel like it's an extra filter between my feelings and what I'm saying, so I don't think it'd even be effective.
I have a few people that I can talk to about what I'm going through, but a lot of them are waist-deep in their own issues right now, so I haven't been. I hope that maybe I can connect with other sufferers here and try to heal a little bit. I wanna take responsibility for my recovery instead of popping a pill every night hoping I'll feel better the next day.
I'm 24(f) now, but my trauma happened 8 years ago. I was diagnosed with delayed-onset PTSD two years ago by a Japanese doctor. Treatment in Japan is basically meds, and so I went on those for a while, and then went off of them when I went back to the US.
Now I'm back in Japan and have relapsed something terrible. I went to the doctor and got re-diagnosed (I live in a different part of Japan now) and have restarted the same meds regiment I was on before. It's been almost two weeks now, but I'm not really feeling any better yet. If anything, I feel a little worse...
The doctor made a point of telling me that the meds were a good idea for now, but that if I didn't talk to anybody about any of this, the problem won't really go away. It's a pretty progressive opinion for a Japanese doctor, because counselling is extremely expensive here and not an option for me. Even if it were, although I do speak Japanese, I feel like it's an extra filter between my feelings and what I'm saying, so I don't think it'd even be effective.
I have a few people that I can talk to about what I'm going through, but a lot of them are waist-deep in their own issues right now, so I haven't been. I hope that maybe I can connect with other sufferers here and try to heal a little bit. I wanna take responsibility for my recovery instead of popping a pill every night hoping I'll feel better the next day.
