I Believe PTSD Is Curable - An Anonymous Source

[Stagetrapdoor]

I tried to delete that post. I tried to edit it.

My kitty jumped up on my lap as I was composing it and forced my hand prematurely. I tried to edit it but my router went offline.

She is actually a tuxedo kitty but she doesn't have that little chipmunk smile.

This research is terribly exciting and there was a book that encouraged drawing with the non dominant hand that was popular in therapy circles a couple decades ago.

Great inspiration here!

 

[lrs]

I can't help but wonder how many confounding factors there are. I mean you say your PTSD is healed but the title is misleading as you were a drug addict and have other psychological disorders as well. So yes, it's a bit misleading to attribute it all to PTSD when the truth is that you cleaned up after years of drug and alcohol abuse and you deal with other disorders as well.

In March of 2004, I had been sober 2 years, 1 month. I started the left hand stringed instrument playing Dec 31, 2003. Up to that day, I was deteriorating, even in sobriety.

You made a relevant, compelling point, which I have often wondered myself. There were obviously multiple issues involved. How were they connected, and what exactly occurred, say, at a neurological level? I could not provide you with a definitive, scientically proven answer.

It is my greatest wish that someone, somewhere, who has the credentials would devote some research into this.and come to the point where answers could be provided.

 

[Abstract]

I suspect there are very few of us that don't initially have other problems @lrs. It works both ways. PTSD and dysfunctional parenting often results in resorting to unhelpful coping methods such as self harm, addictions, eating disorders, OCD and whole lot more. Some of these things such as addictions and eating disorders can put us in the way of more trauma too.

I don't think recovery can truly happen with trauma without dealing with the other unhelpful coping methods methods too. Dealing with them indicates a level of being able to self care, being able to manage and regulate emotion states to some extent, being able to manage interpersonal situations to some extent. It all ends up very interlinked in my opinion. You should be very proud of what you achieved.

 

[lrs]

I am very impressed with the responses I am seeing.
I previously stated, that previous existence is now a distant memory. Sometimes I have to reflect to articulate better.
The pain of that existence is a distant memory. But I do reflect on what I was like before, what happened, and what I am like now. It's much as you describe, there are multiple facets, it's not like there's this one thing you do and that's that. Those areas you stated, are all intertwined, in my opinion.

 

[maryiscontrary]

Thank you so much for this amazing diary, Irs. When I went down to ecuador over Christmas, I had a night where I had intense flashbacks and brutal, brutal nightmares, and then they were pretty much attenuated after that. Now, it is a different world down there, like a modern day old school Paris. So, there were many parts of my brain being used, that just are not used here. Like you, concentration greatly improved, and has stayed pretty improved. Dissociation greatly attenuated.

When I have a nightmare now, I always "win" against the antagonist, and the dream just kinda peters out. This was not the case last November, 3 months ago.

I think that for me, getting out of the US for a month changed my brain, just like the reverse handed banjo did yours.

This is why I am emigrating.