Foreshortened Future

[LittleHugger]

If PTSD is left untreated it is certainly grounds to shorten your life span.

Yes, this apparently the case, sadly....
We FEEL like our lives will be shortened...
And medically, that is what PTSD can and will do, if left untreated, according to some doctors.
I was happier not knowing that, and thinking it was just how I FELT about things.


<Edited by KP the Nut>

 

[Hashi]

I'm like Barberian and Maddog. It's not from choice, but I seem to be indestructible.

Apart from traumas deliberately inflicted on me, I've been in other life-threatening situations four times (one was a plane crash, but I don't want to say what the other three were because I don't want to identify myself).

I feel like I'm NEVER going to get out of here.

Either way, if you feel you have little time left or you feel - to quote Maddog - miserably immortal, does it make you think you need to do your best to improve the quality of your life? Easier said than done, I know, but I feel like I have to try because I've probably got decades still to go. Does the same apply if you think you don't have long?

 

[heidi]

Are there any decent studies or statistics on longevity and Ptsd? Even after removing suicide, if a little stress at the office is bad for you, being showered daily with toxic chemicals probably isn't good either.

 

[mamachick]

Hashi-I can only speak for myself. Feeling like I do not have long and there is not future for me causes me to feel like things dont matter, so no, it is not a motivator to make things better, it makes it feel quite hopeless. Like "live for today", yet its like everyday is or may be dooms day.

The alternative feels worse though. That we suffer long and then die. What for?

 

[Meadowsweet]

does it make you think you need to do your best to improve the quality of your life? Easier said than done, I know, but I feel like I have to try because I've probably got decades still to go. Does the same apply if you think you don't have long?

I dont tend to think that I don't have long left to live. I fear that at any moment something bad could happen and take my life away. I don't like to look to the future, because I fear the loss and seeing it coming.

But at the same time, I fear doing something wrong or that failing in some way will bring death as a sort of punishment.

So I keep battling to improve myself, but it doesn't improve the quality of my life.

 

[reallydown]

Yes...I have a very hard time believing I`ll be around much longer...Part of it, I guess, is because of the situation that lead to my ptsd. I don`t have a specific time frame but it`s very difficult to picture myself <in the future`...That`s probably why I have such a hard time planning etc. I don`t know...

 

[Victim/Writer]

I agree with reallydown, the sense vague that there doesnt seem to be any way to make it better or plan in ways that would make me feel safer. It just seems so inevitable.

 

[mamachick]

The reality of doom is strong again. My thoughts are so destructive and how dont know how to make them stop. My own self messages. They are----nothing good will ever happen, good is for others, dark clouds follow you, you are a loser, you are useless, you are unimportant, you deserve nothing good, you dont need anything and you wont get anything good, just stay in your bed and wither, nobody cares, nobody can help you, you cant change, you are nobody, your being alive is taking food from others, you are unworthy of the little you have.

I dont know how to enjoy anything anymore. I dont want anything or anyone. I just want to be invisible and to disappear.

Eventually I start thinking of how I can end this.

 

[Tinyflame]

((((((((((brat))))))))))

 

[heidi]

If PTSD is left untreated it is certainly grounds to shorten your lifespan.

See I'd have to question whether there are any good methods for treating PTSD.

I don't doubt that early interventions might be helpful, but I'm guess most of us missed that opportunity.

One can argue that there are effective methods for treating PTSD, although I think one can more effectively argue using a mountain of evidence that there is not. I feel like the psychiatric industry is still groping in the dark looking for an effective method of treatment. I just got a flyer in the mail a couple days ago from my former university to get EDMR certified. For like 5,000 dollars I too can become certified. Looks like they are even setting up a department for trauma. Finally all those well intentioned undergraduates and psychologist and therapists who can pay the pills and have more opportunity. In my opinion there is an industry that had to come up with a treatment method. They had to have an answer. They've delivered an answer..

I'm not sure the solution they've found thus far isn't bunk. And I think that can be supported with good evidence. So when people say if left untreated.. I'd like to ask is there REALLY a good method of treatment out there?