I Know There Is No Such Thing As Complex Ptsd Legally/diagnostically...

[Barconian]

So, since some people want to discount PTSD anyhow, if they read some article about that group of PTSD sufferers who recovered fairly quickly after EMDR, will happily decide that everyone now should be treatable in a few nice easy sessions. (As if...)

It would be fantastic if we all could have a 3 week crash course on EMDR and be cured! It won't happen.

 

[arfie]

The explanation which made sense to me compared it to a broken bone. Simple post traumatic stress was compared to a simple fracture. It is serious and needs effective treatment to heal well. PTSD was compared to a simple fracture which did not receive that treatment and healed badly. Often the bone needs to be rebroken and reset, or worse, to repair the bone. Complex PTSD was compared to a bone which was broken numerous times -as in POW torture or child abuse. Repair becomes far more challenging.

 

[Deleted member 1860]

That's the problem. Generally that is what happens already.

On what planet is anyone with PTSD treated and cured in a few easy sessions?!?

 

[greenleaf]

In a planet occupied only by insurance company people and certain of my relatives?

 

[Abstract]

Commonly over here you will either just be medicated and then sent on your way or will be offered a course of 6 CBT sessions by an under qualified counsellor and then sent on your way. Eureka. That is supposed to do the job it seems. :wacky:

Greenleaf, it seems a lot of the relatives of those on here would think 6 sessions totally unnecessary. Even my sister who is a registered psychologist thinks I should just stop having therapy and then all will be well! Thank goodness she doesn't treat anyone.

 

[greenleaf]

Peoples' issues about power and their denial re. how often power is abused, their own vulnerability, etc. seems related to this stuff and sometimes drives me totally nuts, @Abstract.
I'm glad she doesn't treat anyone too!
Wow, 6 whole sessions... how generous... :eek:

 

[Powder]

Insurance. Can't live with it, can't live without it.

Sheesh. I remember after my auto accident in which I was rammed off the road and suffered day and night moderate to severe muscle pain in my neck, shoulders, back that I got Insurance to pay for massage and chiropractic.

The massage therapist at the office my Doc. Rx-d me to, following the insurance guidelines, told me after four sessions of 50 minutes that "I should be feeling all better now." !!!! I was like "well wouldn't that be convenient! In fact, I'm in agony!" She seemed to think my injury and body would obligingly follow her expectations and insurance company desires.

I found a real massage therapist who helped more, but was still in occasionally bad pain a year post accident, and was T-boned exactly the same way 2 days after the anniversary of the first accident in the chiropractor's parking lot.

Insurance guidelines assume the initial diagnostic code is accurate, when in fact, accurate diagnoses are those which are under vigilant scrutiny by a professional who cares and actually knows what they are doing (who is not too chicken to modify their diagnosis with new evidence).