Ptsd Coping Strategies Analogy

[Hope4Now]

I've been practicing coping strategies for PTSD symptoms for about a year now. Still have difficulty accepting any of this is real. But today I took my daughter to physical therapy for an evaluation of an injury that doesn't seem to be healing, and I suddenly made a connection. Trauma therapy is like physical therapy for the soul.

Whether you like it or not, you've got to go to the sessions, and do the exercises if you want to get better. All the digging around to figure out what the pain and symptom triggers hurts, but it's the only way to progress. You can wish all you want that you could resume whatever your former life was, but wishing doesn't make it get better. You have to do the work.

Just sayin'.

 

[Recovery4Me]

:hug: Wise words spoken. Sounds like you are ready to roll up your sleeves and face some fire breathing dragons.

Standing beside you in support and with praise of your courage.:tup:

 

[ghotiff]

I am still learning this.

 

[Hope4Now]

Thanks for the encouragement, @Recovery4Me. The dragons are fierce. When my only weapons are breathing and movement and visualization and self-talk and a kind therapist, I feel hideously vulnerable, but so far I'm surviving the terror. That's what courage is, right? Doing what one is scared to do.

 

[maryiscontrary]

Ditto. It is exactly like physical therapy. It is literally recovering from a brain injury.

 

[Friday]

Timely post. I'm a little miffed (understatement) with trying to find a therapist at present.