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Well I’m back, and I’m converted. It’s true CBD oil isn’t a miracle cure but for me it has provided not only sleep but a certain clarity or a level of calm that I haven’t known since the ptsd kicked off 3 1/2 years ago. I’m down to taking a small dose before bed and within the hour I am sound asleep and some nights I stay that way until 7 hours of blissful sleep later. During the day, apparently because it’s now in my system or maybe because I have slept - I don’t know and it’s not something I need to question, I have clarity of thought. I am able to engage with that bubbling cauldron of emotions as I am triggered and move away to a safe spot in both my physical and thought, to wait for a level of calm to enable me to proceed with the day.
Again, it is not a miracle cure. It slows the reaction enough for me to have a chance of dealing with the feelings and emotions of the trigger and move away only. Daily life is better, but my neighbours had work done in their home. It involved unexpected noise that was unpredictable and what seemed to me incredibly loud. I was surprised the house was still standing and not reduced to a pile of rubble. I was stuck at home as the weather was so bad and every hit of the hammer to their home resulted in a full onslaught to my nervous system as I jumped at every hit. By the time they left I was exhausted, strung out, tearful and devoid of rational thought. Once it stopped and I had rested I decided to take another dose of CBD. seems you can’t overdose and if it helps, why not. It helped.
I hope this is helpful to someone, anyone! If there is any further advice you can throw in my direction I will welcome it. If nothing else I at least feel I have some control.
So, it’s 2.18am and my not a miracle CBD hasn’t worked tonight. The reason, the U.K. is on alert for a storm which is expected to be a ‘danger to life‘ and that one sentence repeated over and over during the course of the day has been enough to wake me as I sit waiting for the storm to arrive and worry. How I hate the enhanced level of fear PTSD brings.
Again, it is not a miracle cure. It slows the reaction enough for me to have a chance of dealing with the feelings and emotions of the trigger and move away only. Daily life is better, but my neighbours had work done in their home. It involved unexpected noise that was unpredictable and what seemed to me incredibly loud. I was surprised the house was still standing and not reduced to a pile of rubble. I was stuck at home as the weather was so bad and every hit of the hammer to their home resulted in a full onslaught to my nervous system as I jumped at every hit. By the time they left I was exhausted, strung out, tearful and devoid of rational thought. Once it stopped and I had rested I decided to take another dose of CBD. seems you can’t overdose and if it helps, why not. It helped.
I hope this is helpful to someone, anyone! If there is any further advice you can throw in my direction I will welcome it. If nothing else I at least feel I have some control.
So, it’s 2.18am and my not a miracle CBD hasn’t worked tonight. The reason, the U.K. is on alert for a storm which is expected to be a ‘danger to life‘ and that one sentence repeated over and over during the course of the day has been enough to wake me as I sit waiting for the storm to arrive and worry. How I hate the enhanced level of fear PTSD brings.