PTSD Timeline To Recovery

[Lauren]

Hope is so important. It's nice to see that you and others can and have worked thru this stuff successfully Anthony. Working thru this seems to be all emcompassing right now for me. Is it typical that it seems to be affecting me 24/7 Anthony? I feel obsessed by it. I don't mean being on this website 24/7 obviously. Just constantly being aware of what I am feeling, the thoughts precipitating the feelings and analyzing it. Fortunately I am my own boss and in a financial position to do this constantly and will do it if that is what it takes. I just don't know if that is what I should be doing.

 

[anthony]

Removing the negative stigma is the main part... learning how to manage yourself is the next. You cannot manage symptoms, you can only manage methods that cause the symptoms. The more you manage the precipitation aspects, ie. prevention is better than cure strategy, the less you're affected daily. Some people will simply require to be medicated on top of all the daily strategies due to their lifestyle, ie. self employed. You just have to find the right strategy that works for you and your specific situation.

 

[Jade-]

I'm grateful for this article. I keep coming back to it when I feel down and it gives me hope.