Few Effective, Evidence-based Interventions To Prevent Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Review Finds

[Sludge]

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Read this article!

Do like I do and use what you learn to get the treatments you need that actually work. So far it looks like CBT may be one of the few that does.

Also notice that the statement "more research is needed" is made. This is important as it is a rarity in the social sciences. The stress on the need for valid, fact based therapies is also very, very important.

Now, many of us here are saying, "No shit, coulda tol' ya that!"- however this is called hind-sight bias and we are all guilty of it.
Keep in mind, this article isn't for we the sufferers. It is for the the quacks and hacks that are supposed to be helping us. Either way, it helps to prove what many of us already know. We are not getting the help we need and the help-givers are not always equipped properly to do so.

 

[JarHed]

Interesting article. I always have to ask when I read such is who is the article actually written by? I noted the references to material but that's just data. I both know and understand how data can be manipulated to present a specific point or side to an argument.

I would say this; do your research into the types of therapy available, which one seems like a good fit for you and which ones are offered by your healthcare providers. Be proactive, if you don't feel like the therapist is attentive to your needs and problems, get one that is. Also, if the your present therapy doesn't seem to be making a positive difference for you change it. It may not be a good analogy but here goes anyway. Like loosing weight, there is no magic to it. Eat healthy food, control your portion sizes and exercise. There are a ton of 'quicky' ways to loose weight but the truth is they don't work in the long run. Essentially the same is true for therapy. Do the work, there's no magic bullet or meds that will do otherwise.

 

[Ned]

Agreed. No wave of a wand. Working at it works. It is a good analogy, Jar.

P.S. Agreed Sludge, anything that the clinical cadre can digest because it's written in their speak is a help.

 

[Sarg]

I wish the hell I knew how to put a large blinking red warning every time someone types CBT on here. Yes! YEs! YES!, I believe that it works for the young troops, but the warning should read..."use caution when using on old Nam farts like Sarg, could result in spontaneous combustion"!!!

We're old, we've pretty much buried our dead and specters, don't make us dig up that shit anymore. I tried it, the dead and specters came back and I'm still trying to work through it years later. With talk therapy with a fantastic therapist, I've come further than I've ever been with anything the VA gave me.

Different time, different war, different PTSD, refined by age.

Sarg

 

[Sludge]

I wish the hell I knew how to put a large blinking red warning every time someone types CBT on here. Yes! YEs! YES!, I believe that it works for the young troops, but the warning should read..."use caution when using on old Nam farts like Sarg, could result in spontaneous combustion"!!!

We're old, we've pretty much buried our dead and specters, don't make us dig up that shit anymore. I tried it, the dead and specters came back and I'm still trying to work through it years later. With talk therapy with a fantastic therapist, I've come further than I've ever been with anything the VA gave me.

Different time, different war, different PTSD, refined by age.

Sarg

Agreed Sarg. CBT hasn't done shit for me except piss me off, and I'm in the gap between desert and jungle. Kinda have to find my own way as a result.

As for the rest-
There are pros and cons to any therapy regimen, but if more patients ask valid, fact based questions and quit begging for a sack full of drugs for a magic "cure", in theory the quacks and hacks would actualy do more than read off a list out of some shitty college textbook, feed us pills we don't need and send us on our way so they can get on to their tee times.

I view treatment of the Beast just like I view military paperwork- If ya want it done right, you gotta hand carry it up the chain yourself or some strorecreature uses it for a coaster.