Is It Possible To Heal (completely) From Ptsd??

[April0000]

Hi I'm new here. I was diagnosed 2 years ago with PTSD. My psychologist just referred to me to someone who does EMDR and I start next week. In the meantime I've been doing something that has really been helping me a lot with my generalized anxiety and startle reflex. Its called the I.C.E method and you can find it on youtube. ICE stands for Identify (the feeling ) C stands for calmness bring yourself into a calmed down state) and E stands for Exchange (go back in your mind to the event and feeling and sit quietly and exchange that feeling with the calm state your in) I am surprised how this helps. If you watch the videos on youtube Lars explains why this works. Your changing the peptide connections in your brain. Calming yourself isn't enough to heal PTSD. You must bring the event and past feelings into your awareness and then sit calmly with the discomfort so the peptides can switch over to a calm state. Lots of new brain studies being done,neuroplasticity. Watch his videos. Dee

 

[ResaLock]

My experience is: I believe P.T.S.D works a lot like average physical injuries. It all depends on the trauma to the person. Though injuries heal; Evidence of the injury may remain, but not be painful. Some injuries may not heal correctly, and have continual painful effects.Some may also depend on the care of the injury afterwards. So, yes, I believe people can heal from P.T.S.D, and some may not, at least not completely. Though there may be some healing.