I Believe PTSD Is Curable - An Anonymous Source

[spiritofnow]

WOW!!

I am truly touched by your life! There are so many reflections! I need to think and absorb all of this! I would like to congratulate you on your openess and the time you have taken to allow others' to share in your journey. You are a brave and wonderful soul indeed, and your story in parts resonates with me.

I am thinking............

Thank you

Spirit x

 

[Cowgirl]

This is really remarkable. Thank you for sharing your story. I've got a lot to think about, having read this.

Cowgirl

 

[estrella_del_mar]

thank you for your post!!!
i assume fish oil too, i began to take it because i read on a book of "zone diet" that it helps to control the "blockers of insuline". i suffer of hypoglicemy, so i thought it could help me to regolate my insuline levels and i noted that the fish oil was not only doing that, but i was feeling better with my mind too, i had less losses of memory and i felt less stressed. then i read an article where they said that insuline resistance, losses of memory and alzheimer are connected...(northwestern university)...this means that fish oil influences positively the connections betweens all the cells, the menthal ones too, not only the ones involved in methabolism.
during the years i have been developing a method of my own to feel better, based on my personal experience, on scientific readings, on my will to feel better and happy..
i found a real benefit in martial arts too (and in sports in general), above all in the forms, me too!!! ( i practice tae kwon do and hap ki do)
i also developed a "problem solving algorithm" to face all my problems and, throught it, i focalized many things...
i would like to tell you all the things i have been descovering during the yaers...
one day i will do!!!!!
anthony, thank you, thank you very much!!!

 

[estrella_del_mar]

for the ones who are interested with the article i was talking about, dealing with relations between loss of memory, insuline resistance and alzheimer, you can find it on: FASEB Journal; it is a on line journal, and the article is by Dr. William Klein.

 

[trial'n'error]

No martial arts for me ... Apparently I can get seriously injured by just using the phone (long story). :) BUT - I am a right-handed visual artist, perhaps I can get ambidextrous at drawing............... very intriguing....

 

[TLight]

I've been using fish oil now for approx. 2 months. I take between 6 and 9 capsules a day. If I start feeling that tweaky feeling in the left side of my brain late in the day, I take another three.

I've also been doing skullcap and ashwanganda tinctures regularly. My brain feels more level.......even when I venture out of doors! I'm very encouraged by this and feeling like I'm getting some relief finally.

I still have the klonopin, but rarely use it, only when sleep refused to come and I'm too charged up at night. I've tapered off the Cymbalta, thank god..........that drug is powerful! But I'm feeling no depression. I've read that Ashwahganda and Ginseng affect dopamine levels in the brain......which have a role in our disorder and many psychiatric disorders..........and, what do you know, Fibromyalgia! I'm feeling a lot better these past two months............but I haven't had to work much either, so that also has something to do with it.............NO STRESS.
But I'm very encouraged by all this...........I also take several other suppliments, including CoQ10 because my body has really suffered from all the stress and adrenaline........so I'm focusing on getting my body in balance, including meditation and yoga.
I'm still afraid of most people, especially men..........don't trust em. Sad too and hard, people consider me attractive and I'm always hit on..........feels horribly triggering, like I'm a prey animal ever time I walk out the door. Very awful. And I'm so lonely. But have resigned to myself that the safest existance for me is alone and with one or two friends I trust (actually, not even sure if I trust them as yet). I'm OK with this..........but I do cry about it sometimes...........but it's better than the alternative, I've had some really nasty people who've really hurt me throughout my life. I'd rather be alone. people are full of all kinds of evil. I do forgive them though, they are truly suffering in this life and the next.

 

[lrs]

TL - I truly hope you find something that will work for you, you are worthy of a much better life. I'm a guy myself, I know there are some real jerks out there, but there are a lot of good ones as well.
I have noticed with men and women, many of us do not have very good radar with members of the opposite sex.
When it comes to guys, I can spot a degenerate, sleazy, pervert, jerk-off a mile away.
I see women fall for these guys, and I am as puzzled as I can be. I want to say, what the hell's the matter with you, just look at him. Can't you see this idiot is feeding you a line, and is gonna bring you nothing but misery.
Of course I'm not any better with females. Most of my life, I've seen women as lovely, beautifull, frail, angelic beings, with nothing but kindness and goodness in their hearts.

 

[cyndi]

Um. You have no idea how much hope this sharing has given me. I say this through tears of relief. I have been working so hard all of my life both with doctors and on my own, tempering what they say with my own research and paying close attention to what works and doesn't. The story of my life is a long one I've gone over and under and typed out in bits and pieces on support sites from sexual abuse, rape, grief, divorce, addictions, domestic violence, toxic families, stalker psychopath exes, etc. etc. When I tell my story most can't fathom how I'm still here. I have been looking "outside of the box" for answers, for more balanced tools. I re-freaking-fuse to give up. I believe wholeheartedly that the PTSD as well as many other disorders CANNOT be solved on a sofa but must be addressed in a holistic way-physical, mental, emotional, spiritual. I have been trying a "mix" of these things and if I had not, I would not be here today.

I just began therapy called ETT. I have a recent post on it. He began using goggles such as those described above. After only 30 minutes I've spent the last week purging both physically and emotionally. So much repressed has come up but it is different than ever before. I see myself and feel compassion, healing those places I was injured.

I use meditation, especially loving/compassion. It has eased my fear and brought me closer to who I want to be as well as opening me up spiritually.

I am left handed. The is a special kinship with others who are that is hard to describe, it's like you both understand things unspoken. I have also been using my right hand to stay more grounded. I've been listening to the little voices that tell me where my bliss lies and it's been nagging me to get a piano again and start playing. I honestly believe now this is the universe trying to help me heal. I'm getting that keyboard for sure now. I feel my whole life beginning again in front of me at this moment.

I will be back to this topic, so much to say, to ask but I am so excited my thoughts are scattered.

Is there more information somewhere on the vitamin deficiencies of PTSD sufferers? What about studies on left handed vs. right and how they've functioned in this world? I wonder if being left handed in a right handed world has possibly been a saving grace for keeping me more balanced?

...or maybe it all ties to living in TX too. :rolleyes: (howdy!)
((Irs)) thank you so much for sharing and I am so happy for you. I started compiling my story and what I've learned a few months ago, writing it without the ending yet. I may just be able to finish it with these added pieces to the puzzle.

:clap::clap::clap::clap:
STANDING OVATION.

 

[Cr8ingMagic]

I, too, have found an alternative therapy that really worked for me, just within the last couple of days. A friend of mine found a web site put up by an empathic healer and she gave it a try, with amazing results. So I tried it, too, what I like most is that it works through e-mail, so you can say whatever you want without having to worry that you will ever see the person face-to-face, the anonymity as freeing, just as it is on this forum. It was the strangest, but most amazing thing I have ever experienced! I wrote about the part of my trauma that bothers me the most, and after I received the response, I discovered that when I thought about it again, it was like watching a movie or thinking about something someone else had told me. There was NO negative emotion attached to it at all! I can't even believe that I feel this good, I never thought that I could, as my trauma began when I was very, very young, so I don't think I've ever known what it was like to be happy. There are definitely a few other things that I think I am going to need help with, as my abuse went on for several years, but the worst part of it seems to have been completely neutralized, and I feel...brand new?! I don't know how to really describe it...

 

[midi]

Wow, I have many thoughts about this thread. It took me several days to read through it, as I did other things....

I used to play and teach classical piano until the accident - one of my hands is useless now. I found learning voice too painful, because it was like, all those years in piano, wasted--but maybe I can throw the hand in a splint and give guitar a whirl, if it will help with PTSD. I felt so much more souful when I did play (and sing badly). I have nightmares about trying to play destroyed pianos or pianos without keys.

I used to practise martial arts--and after reading what has been written here, maybe martial arts is what got me through the violent high school years. I had to stop practising because I received a closed-head concussion and nearly broke my neck. Now, I do yoga - and if I don't do it and proteins everyday, I'm a crying, anxious, angry, useless mess.

A friend who is a nurse suggested the fish oils--I think I better get on that.

It was very difficult reading this thread - I've gone from job to career to job to nothing, and my ex, he goes from place to place in his medical profession. It's all hush hush, because professionals do protect their own.

Tomorrow, I'm gonna splint up and try some basic guitar! Thank you!

p.s. I'm left handed too!

 

[lrs]

It was by accident that my attempt to learn to play a stringed musical instrument, had the result that it did. That I was so obsessed by an irrational wish, might give some insight how deranged from PTSD I had become, how separated from reality my thinking was. As I have stated, the ability to think and act appropriately did not reside in me.
I did not think I would be alive much longer, one thing that I wanted to do was to become a good musician. In the ultimate twist of fate, this very desire was what brought about an end to my illness.
I did not understand how this was possible, when this first happened. I could only identify that it happened, and I knew what caused it to happen.
It was not "magic", but the effect that it had on my PTSD was, in fact, consistent with our biological makeup, as I was to learn.
This forum made it possible to tell my story, and to bring this to the attention of those who suffer from PTSD, and to those professionals who study PTSD, and those who treat patients with PTSD.
There have been relevant discussions on this forum regarding what happened, and I would encourage you to go back and read these topics.
- [DLMURL]http://www.ptsdforum.org/showthread.php?t=3202[/DLMURL]
this is one of the profound discussions to have taken place on this forum, IMHO.
Dr Roerich himself provided much helpful information
- [DLMURL]http://www.ptsdforum.org/showthread.php?t=5691[/DLMURL]
On this thread, I describe in detail what I experienced.

I believe, and this is only my interpretation, there were 2 important events associated with what I experienced.
- rewiring the right cerebral hemisphere, with an activity which already existed in the left hemisphere. We have discussed neuroplasticity to some extent on this forum. I would make the call that this is neuroplasticity, applied to specifically to the right brain.
- this enabled some type of "lateralization" activity with right and left cerebral hemispheres. This did not start until after I had played "left hand" for approximately 3 months. This continued for about 1 year, as I continued to play left hand and right hand.

It has been proven, and is accepted by the scientific community, that people who suffer from PTSD, suffer from a biochemical and neurological imbalance, for which no known cure exists.
I do believe this imbalance is treatable.

 

[freya]

Irs, I'd love to show your article and the posts you wrote since then to a therapist I'm seeing, who is a specialist in PTSD. Can I have your permission to do so?

Freya