Diagnosed With PTSD - What Has Helped Others?

[Carpman]

Hi, I’ve struggled from anxiety for most of my adult life, I was put on concoction of meds which I came off most of them last year, I went to therapy after my mum died as I realised I had issues as I’ve always felt anxious alert all the time, unwanted thoughts, low self asteem, shame and fear, I started seeing a therapist last year but it became stuck, she was a person focussed therapist, I got worse and now I’m back home, so just started seeing a different therapist, emotion focused therapist, I’ve been really low this week, as he said I might have complex ptsd, and I’ve felt dread since, my dad died in front of me suddenly in my teens and other things like my attachment to parents before this, my mum became over protective of me and I don’t think I developed properly to adulthood, I took a lot of drugs and drink in my 20s and 30s but not anymore, my life feels like a mess, I’m not sure where to go with this, just want to see what has helped people, somatic healing, yoga, meditation, tre, emdr, as there is so much confusion I find, any help is appreciated:)

 

[Kubash16]

Talk therapy has helped me decently enough to keep going for now, yoga (hard as hell to not panic for some reason but does help overall). EMDR could be great and want to go back to it again when possible.

 

[Teasel]

Welcome, stabilisation skills and edication about symptoms of PTSD and causes etc are what I found helpful more than any therapy to begin with. I've had lots of therapy that made things worse. Properly trauma trained staff, rather than people who just think they know how to help makes a lot of difference.

Sounds like you're not yet sure if you have c-PTSD?

Welcome :)

 

[EveHarrington]

Welcome!

 

[Rachel2535]

Hi, I’ve struggled from anxiety for most of my adult life, I was put on concoction of meds which I came off most of them last year, I went to therapy after my mum died as I realised I had issues as I’ve always felt anxious alert all the time, unwanted thoughts, low self asteem, shame and fear, I started seeing a therapist last year but it became stuck, she was a person focussed therapist, I got worse and now I’m back home, so just started seeing a different therapist, emotion focused therapist, I’ve been really low this week, as he said I might have complex ptsd, and I’ve felt dread since, my dad died in front of me suddenly in my teens and other things like my attachment to parents before this, my mum became over protective of me and I don’t think I developed properly to adulthood, I took a lot of drugs and drink in my 20s and 30s but not anymore, my life feels like a mess, I’m not sure where to go with this, just want to see what has helped people, somatic healing, yoga, meditation, tre, emdr, as there is so much confusion I find, any help is appreciated:)

Thank you for reaching out. I can relate to the hard days the feeling of being so loss you don’t know what to do. I felt like this for over 25 years and tried to fill it with everything in the book. Nothing could give me that something I was missing until I came to faith in Jesus Christ. Honestly since then I have yet to deal with the brokenness of that since of nothingness. I now have a since on belonging and I know someone loves me more then I can imagine. So that is what has helped me. I pray you can find healing and hope also. Don’t keep fighting for it and don’t let the lies our heads tell us win. Thank you for reaching out. Know I am praying.

 

[Freida]

Hi!

Talk therapy to start then EMDR ---- its' a messy way to go but it's pretty effective!

 

[Carpman]

Welcome!

Thanks for replying, I think problem I have is who to speak to about ptsd, my family does not understand it, it almost feels as if I think they think I’m pretending!, people seem too understand depression/ anxiety more as perhaps they have had it at some point, also I think my childhood feels completely different to a family member, so there is no link there, I’m doing gentle yoga daily, I also do weights, I have done couple of somatic yoga classes, I also tried tre on my own, I couldn’t stop legs shaking, another thing in therapy I feel as if I’m letting family down/ disloyal when speaking in negative way about parents