Ptsd Why Now?

[1966]

Thanks, can anyone tell me whats involved with the EMDR therapy? I somtimes feel I've tried so much in the way of therapy, CBT and councelling that I feel is it worth putting myself through it... and why why can't I deal with this myself?

 

[anni]

HI,

I sometimes get lost with methods of therapy, since I'm a big chicken and sort of stay with conventional methods but am answering your last statement. Please don't mind this, since I don't wish to sound as if I 'know everything'. Obviously do not, or would not be on this forum, typing my way through early morning angst 20 years post trauma.

We can't deal with it ourselves because there's a sort of actual brain re-routing- a physical thing, which happens, for one thing. I'm not awfully bright so get things wrong a LOT, so please go over to the articles before I try to explain further and sound like an idiot? I do know it's somewhere along the lines of something electrical being re-routed differently than what it was before the trauma, at least. Managable with therapy and time but not fixable. There's also self-esteem issues which tie into the whole thing, so of course we're going to turn around and come up with things like 'why can't I deal with this myself?'. There are a few members here with the verbal and mental accuity to wrap those two items up together in a comprehensive package for readability, but I am not one of them. :) It's just that your last statement was as familiar as a lot of other things with this PTSD thing I've been carting around in my head these last couple of decades, so thought I could at least offer some sort of direction.