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Very well said Andre, very well said.
Aowyn, something you said ealier, being that you believe you have solved your trauma because you simply "left" the situation, so all you have now is the triggers! Wrong! Trauma must be dealt with uniquely, and merely leaving a situation does not rid trauma from the mind, because if it did, you would not have nightmares or flashback, dissociate, have anxiety, stress or depression at times, nothing... so trauma hasn't been dealt with at all. All you have done is remove yourself from the traumatic situation, but the trauma still remains locked in your brain.
Trauma must be dealt with by trauma therapy, ie. every painful event that occurred in your life must now be opened up, looked at, and all and any negative emotions examined. Why? Because negative emotions is what feeds PTSD. There is a basic PFD document in the spouse section which explains this at a basic level: [DLMURL]http://www.ptsdforum.org/thread2296.html[/DLMURL].
Trauma must be healed, as trauma is the source of your symptoms, your PTSD as such. PTSD by itself causes a certain amount of permanent stigma within our mind, being the chemical imbalance, and this stigma whilst always a constant small component permanently now embedded into us, expands rapidly if negative emotions are present, thus creating the symptoms. The more negative emotions lying around, the more the stigma hurts us through symptoms, the more depressed, the more anxious, the more stress, and so the list goes on.
The cause is your trauma, being a combination of negative emotions and thoughts. If you feel guilty from something, that is a negative emotion which must be dealt with. If you feel remorse from something, another negative emotion, frustration, and the list is long. Every single negative emotion within your life must be turned upside down to ensure it has been dealt with, either acceptance, rejection or placed with the person it truly belongs (rapists, abusers, etc), and not us. If we do rightly own a negative emotion that we are responsible for, then it is about finding forgiveness, acceptance of our acts, so we stop hurting ourselves constantly, and move forward with more positive and idealistic methods to adapt to life. People can and do change every day, and just because we may off done bad in our lives, if we learn from those mistakes then we do not carry so much negative emotion from them. If we don't learn, negative emotion is likely to be overwhelming.
Aowyn, something you said ealier, being that you believe you have solved your trauma because you simply "left" the situation, so all you have now is the triggers! Wrong! Trauma must be dealt with uniquely, and merely leaving a situation does not rid trauma from the mind, because if it did, you would not have nightmares or flashback, dissociate, have anxiety, stress or depression at times, nothing... so trauma hasn't been dealt with at all. All you have done is remove yourself from the traumatic situation, but the trauma still remains locked in your brain.
Trauma must be dealt with by trauma therapy, ie. every painful event that occurred in your life must now be opened up, looked at, and all and any negative emotions examined. Why? Because negative emotions is what feeds PTSD. There is a basic PFD document in the spouse section which explains this at a basic level: [DLMURL]http://www.ptsdforum.org/thread2296.html[/DLMURL].
Trauma must be healed, as trauma is the source of your symptoms, your PTSD as such. PTSD by itself causes a certain amount of permanent stigma within our mind, being the chemical imbalance, and this stigma whilst always a constant small component permanently now embedded into us, expands rapidly if negative emotions are present, thus creating the symptoms. The more negative emotions lying around, the more the stigma hurts us through symptoms, the more depressed, the more anxious, the more stress, and so the list goes on.
The cause is your trauma, being a combination of negative emotions and thoughts. If you feel guilty from something, that is a negative emotion which must be dealt with. If you feel remorse from something, another negative emotion, frustration, and the list is long. Every single negative emotion within your life must be turned upside down to ensure it has been dealt with, either acceptance, rejection or placed with the person it truly belongs (rapists, abusers, etc), and not us. If we do rightly own a negative emotion that we are responsible for, then it is about finding forgiveness, acceptance of our acts, so we stop hurting ourselves constantly, and move forward with more positive and idealistic methods to adapt to life. People can and do change every day, and just because we may off done bad in our lives, if we learn from those mistakes then we do not carry so much negative emotion from them. If we don't learn, negative emotion is likely to be overwhelming.
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