anthony
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This shit pisses me of to no end. ****en doctors wanting nothing more than to get their name recognized for something that they actually have only half done.
This is no cutting edge treatment, as I had this done on me before I even saw a shrink, or diagnosed with PTSD. You go over and over aspects of your life, aspects of your events surrounding your trauma, but not actually touching the trauma itself. Counsellors at VVCS are doing, have been using this for a long time now. Again, this is no cutting edge stuff at all, merely some doctor wanting to big note themselves making people believe something that actually is factual at all.
From the 14 people, they say 12 no longer met the diagnostic criteria. I bet they didn't follow up though, because if any of those 12 are still having nightmares, still struggle going to a crowded shopping center, still have anxiety attacks, etc etc, they aren't cured at all. This falls right back to the recent broading of PTSD, now branding people who are very curable into the PTSD category. I have also seen today, where they now refer to those who are not curable, still being approximately the same 10% of trauma sufferers, as having C-PTSD (Complex PostTraumatic Stress Disorder).
****en doctors just keep making up names for shit if you ask me, and do nothing more than find another way in which to piss those off who suffer this shit. They are broadening the scope I believe, so they can be some results from the lower scale persons, who actually don't have PTSD as such, more just acute stress or anxiety symptoms. They obviously don't like knowing that a particular illness is not curable, so they broaden it to include those that are actually curable, thus detracting the overall state and meaning of the term to begin with. Now some are just rebranding us actual sufferers as C-PTSD, instead of just PTSD.
Some doctors are just dead set ****wits, with no actual outlook for their patients at all, and are trying to make others suffering about making them look good. All my doctors have been absolute specialists of PTSD, and have been so for over 20+, some 30+ years. These guys know what their talking about, as they have seen thousands of sufferers personally, and seen the ones who try to fake the disorder as well. None of which got through from what they stated to me. Its only in recent years that it has become known, and then people try and fake it, so these guys had donkey's years of experience before seeing the clowns who want to have it.
I know every country has them, but it seems the States has an overwhelming amount of dickhead doctors who want nothing more than recognition for themselves, instead of just treating their damn patients.
[DLMURL="http://news.monstersandcritics.com/lifestyle/consumerhealth/article_1151369.php/Caregiving_New_PTSD_therapy"]John C. Markowitz[/DLMURL], clinical professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, and Bleiberg examined the effectiveness of interpersonal psychotherapy, or IPT, a form of talk therapy that focuses 'not on the past trauma, but on dysfunctional relationships in the here-and-now' and PTSD. 'With IPT, we focus on rebuilding relationships,' Bleiberg said. 'What we did was adapt this for PTSD -- it seemed intuitive.'
In the pilot study 14 subjects were treated by IPT over a period of 14 weeks. The study, published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, found that at the end of the 14-week therapy, 12 of the 14 participants no longer met the diagnostic criteria for PTSD.
'In our treatment, we focus on helping the subjects to better cope and function in their relationships,' said Bleiberg. "It's an alternative therapy for patients who don't want to have to focus on the trauma that affected them so badly to begin with, and it has a finite period of time -- we can see results in a finite period of time."
This is no cutting edge treatment, as I had this done on me before I even saw a shrink, or diagnosed with PTSD. You go over and over aspects of your life, aspects of your events surrounding your trauma, but not actually touching the trauma itself. Counsellors at VVCS are doing, have been using this for a long time now. Again, this is no cutting edge stuff at all, merely some doctor wanting to big note themselves making people believe something that actually is factual at all.
From the 14 people, they say 12 no longer met the diagnostic criteria. I bet they didn't follow up though, because if any of those 12 are still having nightmares, still struggle going to a crowded shopping center, still have anxiety attacks, etc etc, they aren't cured at all. This falls right back to the recent broading of PTSD, now branding people who are very curable into the PTSD category. I have also seen today, where they now refer to those who are not curable, still being approximately the same 10% of trauma sufferers, as having C-PTSD (Complex PostTraumatic Stress Disorder).
****en doctors just keep making up names for shit if you ask me, and do nothing more than find another way in which to piss those off who suffer this shit. They are broadening the scope I believe, so they can be some results from the lower scale persons, who actually don't have PTSD as such, more just acute stress or anxiety symptoms. They obviously don't like knowing that a particular illness is not curable, so they broaden it to include those that are actually curable, thus detracting the overall state and meaning of the term to begin with. Now some are just rebranding us actual sufferers as C-PTSD, instead of just PTSD.
Some doctors are just dead set ****wits, with no actual outlook for their patients at all, and are trying to make others suffering about making them look good. All my doctors have been absolute specialists of PTSD, and have been so for over 20+, some 30+ years. These guys know what their talking about, as they have seen thousands of sufferers personally, and seen the ones who try to fake the disorder as well. None of which got through from what they stated to me. Its only in recent years that it has become known, and then people try and fake it, so these guys had donkey's years of experience before seeing the clowns who want to have it.
I know every country has them, but it seems the States has an overwhelming amount of dickhead doctors who want nothing more than recognition for themselves, instead of just treating their damn patients.