Poll Can PTSD Be Cured?

[TLight]

Ditto Robi.........I can manage better, but it will always be there.

 

[want2cope]

I say it is never cured. I think thru time, if you try to understand PTSD, you just learn to deal with triggers and such a little more easy. That is just my opinion of course. I wish there was a cure. Just don't see it happening because it developed at first from a life event that changed you to make you who you are.

 

[robi]

Yes Want2cope! I agree. The PTSD stemmed from a life event that completely changed my life - both positive & negative influences.

 

[anthony]

I was doing research on if there was a cure or not and apparently there is an injection called stellateganglion block or SGB. It shuts down the nerve growth factor.

[DLMURL]https://www.ptsdforum.org/c/threads/sgb-ptsd-treatment-article.11417/[/DLMURL]

Unfortunately, not a cure and still in developmental testing. The results have tapered downwards some what than initial figures first released based on a handful of people.

 

[Red Feather]

I don't think it can be cured. But there is maybe something wrong with the idea of being cured or not. Or being sick or not. I believe in seeing things as a process and growth, so I like to think of my symptoms as part of that. Not necessarily, you have one label and then you don't anymore. But more like this is part of my life right now, because it helps me to use the label at the moment, so I can find more healing.

I don't know. Maybe I am not making sense...

 

[heidi]

I do think it's very possible that a physical solution could be made possible someday.
I guess if there was a psychological way out someone would have found it by now.
I do feel like there is pressure to cure us in counseling (maybe it's just my experience) and I wish the industry also accepted there is no cure and instead work on ways to help us cope with what we do experience.

 

[fairywings]

No, I do not think there is a cure at all. Maybe better coping skills like posting here and therapy.

 

[tvzz]

I think recovery would be possible but not necessarily a cure.. although going through a sense of adversity will cause significant distress, once the person has recovered and fully coped with the PTSD symptoms, possible positive post traumatic growth is possible

 

[Lucycat]

I think it depends on the definition of a cure.

If I had Chickenpox, I would get better. I would expect to have a few pox scars - possibly for life. However if I had a blood test done later there would be identifiable changes - ie antibodies to Chickenpox. For most people these antibodies stop them from getting chickenpox ever again. For a rare few they do get it more than once.

Other unfortunate people later get Shingles - a reactivation of the Chickenpox virus, usually when the host is at an immunological low ebb.

But my point is that despite these changes and the possibility of getting Shingles I would still consider myself cured of the original Chickenpox.

Therefore I see no reason why PTSD cannot be cured - in that one is free of symptoms.

 

[Estacia]

I do not believe so. Managed? Yes. With proper therapy and guidence.

 

[InHell11]

No I don't think there is a cure, I also find the idea of recovery from PTSD a little bit unlikely at least in my case. I mean the way I see it there is no going back to who I might have been before or who I might have been had it not been for the PTSD.

I at first attributed my PTSD to one event, the most obviously traumatic event to me. However, the truth is that is not where it started. It's taken years of bullying from teachers and students, having to cope with living in a dysfunctional family trying to keep my pain to myself to keep from adding to everyone else's problems and the resulting suicide attempt to get me to this point.

As well as a little incident when a 'friend' tried to set me up and well the police kind of over-did it when I went to them trying to do the right thing still wanted to charge me with a crime for not reporting it sooner or something. I just feel like i never could handle it all, so its no wonder I developed PTSD.

As for recovery I don't see my 'home' or even this society as a good setting for any sort of recovery. I mean even when I do my best to ignore it some of the stigma towards those struggling financially that gets out in the media is hard to ignore and its triggering to me since I am both mentally ill and struggling financially with no income. I think 'if only those critics knew what it was like to live like this every day.' but of course I don't wish it on anyone.

 

[Estacia]

InHell11, You said it best! For me my faith reminds me that after life I will get to rest.