.how Do Therapist Deal With A Ptsdr

[sonicwhite]

Ok, so I'm on 6 mg of prazosin. I don't think there going to go up any higher. So what is the main goal a therapist deals with in PTSD. They say for sure I have it, I complained of nightmares since I started seeing a pdoc at the office I currently go too. So how? Do I just wake up anxious and deal with it. I know showering and getting out help but I feel so isolated. I won't go into what traumatized me but just know it eats at me everyday. When I first came out of the psychosis I was fine but prolly because I was still doing meth. I came to Christ a years later in May 06 and I mean I had the most wonderful experience I have even had. My fear of death vanished. That lasted until 08 when I started to have obsessive thoughts about Gods judgment, then in 2010 I started to have nightmares and when they started I was really wanting to kill myself they where that bad. My dreams have mellowed out in intesnsity but are still a pain.


The only time I get suicidle is when my depression is at its worse. So what can a therapist do for me?

 

[shimmerz]

A good therapist will help you to balance things out more. Emotions, reactions, fears, etc. They will give you coping strategies. Help you to determine when you are dissociated. And then teaching you strategies to keep yourself safe. If you aren't in any immediate danger they will help you to correct skewing thinking patterns. They will also, if you allow them to be, form an alliance with you so that you know that someone is always looking at your best interests.

Keep at it SonicWhite. You can totally do this. :hug:

 

[Klo]

I think it's really important to have a therapist who you feel is compassionate and who genuinely listens. It can take some "shopping around" until finding the right therapist. I've had some bad ones.

But one benefit once you find the right one, is that since you have to sort of face what you experienced and how it impacted you, you can do it with the therapist and so you're not doing it alone, and you have someone there to make sure you don't go "crazy" or get overwhelmed. But this only works if you really trust the therapist and feel that they are compassionate and really care.

So give yourself permission to be picky when it comes to finding a therapist. If after a month or so, you just feel "not right" with a therapist, it's okay to move on, no need to waste your time.

 

[sonicwhite]

The therapist started off saying I am important and special. That I am loved. I got abandoned when I was in the darkest period of my life. I felt like wulp this truly is a wicked world. That's why I cling to my cat so much. She has Ben my SO. AND I MEAN JUST SOMETHING THAT CAN FEEL MY PAIN AND DO WHAT SHE CAN TO HELP ME. She has always been there. One time I was took into the psych ward. I was on Xanax one mg four times a day with several other meds. They took me off everything and expected me to act normal. I couldn't even talk. After five days I get out and I get back on everything and I go to sleep. She stayed on my side for sixteen hours. She knew I was hurting. My beloved cat will always be apart of my heart.


While in the psych ward I slept maybe two hours over a five day period. I was truly losing it and not because I had some underlining conviction but the withdrawals from the medication made me that way. I will never go thru that again. I will hang myself before I have to go thru that much pain. Dumbass doctors who thought withdrawals don't exist. Every patient he was caring for where sicker than a dog. And I even yelled you are making me sicker. Ugh that pisses me off.