I Believe PTSD Is Curable - An Anonymous Source

[Jline]

Hey TLight,

Awesome to hear you are feeling some relief! We are all different here, some have had much worse trauma than others... I know you have had a very difficult traumatic childhood and your bravery and honesty on this forum is amazing. I think it may take some of us longer than others to feel the full effect of these exercises but any amount of relief is proof that it can help. I hope everyone give this a try, it has changed my life.

 

[James B.]

Ok, been working it - wearing my eye-patch about an hour to 3 hours a day. Well, interesting - am getting more organized. Like the eye patch. Feel this is "Part 1" and part 2 will be learning some motor skills for sketching with my left. Then, getting rid of the tracing aids, and sketching stills with the left.

Also, been spending time several evenings dribbling a basket ball with my eye patch on, mainly using the left. Its oddly fun and fascinating. Doing all my exercises with my eye-patch on.

Hey, digging my eye-patch. $3.50. How can I go wrong?

Also have web searches for EFT resouces on my list too...

 

[Jline]

Cool! I like the basketball exercise James B, gonna do that one myself. :)

 

[The Sentinel]

I am deeply artistic and do things that involve both hands (swordwork require intricate movement with my left hand) and I haven't found it to "cure" me on its own. However, that said, it feels amazing and helps me feel "balanced". I think that's a big part of it is creating the balance. I also draw, write, paint, write music, play music, and many other artistic endeavors and I've found they are intensely therapeutic.

 

[Jline]

Hey Sentinel,

Try covering one eye and using whatever hand you don't use as often when you draw, paint...
It really seems to work for eliminating anxiety. Lovely that you are so artistic, it is a gift *

 

[James B.]

My eye patch use has reached a self- perpetuating state as a subtle "craving" for it. An odd sort of craving that isn't completely cerebral. Small percentage feeling physical as well.

Previously I coudn't quite get my head around re-earning specific highly developed right hand skill with the left. Now the concept seems much more concrete and my brain is giving me the green light that this is doable. One step at a time.

Also, upthread I posted some thoughts about success/failure ratio. Funny, because after suffering from bulimia (for instance) for 10 years, I considered myself "cured" after only one year of not having the problem or thinking about it. This is only a 1 to 10 success/failure ratio, but I accepted this as "cured".

Imagine living without my anxiety disorder for a year, I might indeed feel reborn and accept this as "cured" as well. One more little esoteric note: Jline, the basket ball exercise is really helping my manual reflex speed in a big way, quickly too. FYI.

 

[Jline]

Yes!

James...have you found that you are sleeping better? I have suffered from insomnia for years but now when I hit the sack I am able to sleep very soundly and without horrible dreams and flashbacks. I did not think it was possible. My mom has PTSD and is on medication so I told her about all this and she started doing it herself with almost instant results. Living without the shackles of PTSD is a dream come true.

 

[AdamAnt]

This is incredibly interesting to me. You guys have me wondering what it would do for someone not suffering from PTSD!

 

[James B.]

Very glad to hear about your mom, Jline. And the better rest for you as well. Fortunatly, though have suffered from anxiety disorder many years, my nocturnal lanscape has been mostly free from nightmare distrubance (lucky) but suffered insomnia badly from my late teens, tapering off in my early 40's. The only interesting change has been some vivid dreams of late, not nightmares but complete with abusive staff (sibling) and playing out like full color scenes from a
Luis Bunuel movie. I'd wake up...it wasn't "ugly" - just captivating and kinda powerful.

 

[Jline]

Thanks James,

I am having vivid dreams also but not to do with my traumas. I have always had, since I was little, premonitions... not warnings in dreams but while I am awake. They seem to be happening more now, not sure if this has to do with these exercises. Do you ever experience premonitions?

AdamAnt, I think these exercises are good for everyone. I feel strong again in body and in mind. Perhaps they would help with everyday stress...prevention. Maybe they could make a person smarter or more able to retain information, very interesting! I'm typing this with my eye patch on haha. Just feeling so calm and good*

 

[AdamAnt]

I just checked out "Albert Einstein's Brain" on wikipedia, and they refer several times to areas of his brain being able to communicat with each other more readily, and a quote from him stating that he thought visually rather than in words....hmmmmm

 

[James B.]

First read about Hemispheric Brain training as a means of - if I'm not mistaken - shifting to the left brain (on command) as a way of inducing calm relaxed thought/action in ultra-high stress situations. It was a section in a book I read. The guy who wrote the book has a track record that seems to support the idea.

Depending on my results this next year, am going to email this author (he's a really neat person, now a trainer full time) and relate my findings. You never know, maybe an eye-patch and left hand functioning can help in other endevours - like cutting the stress/tension of a major competetive event? Thus freeing up energy?

Jline, I usdta have strong gut-grab premonitions in my 20's and 30's - strong enough to where i'd look in the direction of the event or situation, sometimes hundreds of miles away. Once I was dangling on a cliff in Yosemite, watching some people climb a popular route accross the valley. Watching from above I had a strong premonition about the intergity of the fixed anchors they were hanging from. Later that week a buddy and I went down there with the right gear. I rapelled off the top and inspected the anchor. It was shockingly bad came out with a light tap of hammer, the other anchor pulled with the tip of a screwdriver. Life support? I wouldn't have hung my backpack off 'em.

I blasted in a new station (grave v masonry anchors) with a Bosch drill, 10.000 lbs pull-out/10,000 lbs shear x2. And never questioned these strong (solar plexus originating) emotions again. Oddly, they seem to have ebbed. Maybe - ha! - I am getting old? Probably.