anthony
Founder
The program I did is a National program, though the particular location I was, being Townsville, has the largest military presence, thus the program obviously deals with a lot of soldiers with PTSD. The program varies across Australia, to exactly how they run it. Mine was six weeks in total, two days a week for the first two weeks, then four days a week for two weeks, then two days a week for the last two weeks.
There is good reason they found this works well, because one of PTSD's symptoms is lack of concentration. Trying to teach any person with uncontrolled PTSD longer than a few hours is fruitless. The days usually began with the hard hitting work, then the afternoons full of relaxation therapy, etc. Townsville has an 80% success rate for that course, being that 80% of all attendee's will firstly live, not kill themselves, and they will maintain a stable lifestyle of management, not just fall back into bad habits. Some do, some don't.
The problem though, is the remainder of the same courses around Australia have success rates down to 10% and vary between States / locations. If Evie is to be locked up, basically speaking, for three months, I would look real hard into the program and what they are doing. The exact issue you raised Kathy about the isolation from society is one of the biggest problems, where people get better on the courses / programs because thats all they have at that time, then they fall apart again once finished, sometimes coming better again, sometimes not, depending on what the person wants for themselves.
This is the exact reason why I personally won't pay much attention to those who aren't 120% committed to wanting a better life, and plenty exist even here. People want to improve, but they are still afraid of facing their pasts, they are afraid of having to endure pain in order to gain their life back... they want change, but aren't willing to sacrifice for it. I help those I truly see wanting it and working towards it, and those that aren't, can only be truly helped when their ready to suffer in order to help themselves basically speaking.
Denial, self sympathy, empath, etc... it doesn't work with PTSD, and these are the failure rates usually. The moment a person gets help, that is a positive sign, but it doesn't mean the person wants to get better. They may think they want to get better, but if they truly wanted it, they would do anything in order to get it, no self sacrifice to mental pain or physical pain due to mental pain would stop them.
Lots of people want help, but only a few reach that point of no return, which must be reached to truly endure the pain it takes in order to heal PTSD, being those who will succeed no matter the self cost of illness to do so.
There is good reason they found this works well, because one of PTSD's symptoms is lack of concentration. Trying to teach any person with uncontrolled PTSD longer than a few hours is fruitless. The days usually began with the hard hitting work, then the afternoons full of relaxation therapy, etc. Townsville has an 80% success rate for that course, being that 80% of all attendee's will firstly live, not kill themselves, and they will maintain a stable lifestyle of management, not just fall back into bad habits. Some do, some don't.
The problem though, is the remainder of the same courses around Australia have success rates down to 10% and vary between States / locations. If Evie is to be locked up, basically speaking, for three months, I would look real hard into the program and what they are doing. The exact issue you raised Kathy about the isolation from society is one of the biggest problems, where people get better on the courses / programs because thats all they have at that time, then they fall apart again once finished, sometimes coming better again, sometimes not, depending on what the person wants for themselves.
This is the exact reason why I personally won't pay much attention to those who aren't 120% committed to wanting a better life, and plenty exist even here. People want to improve, but they are still afraid of facing their pasts, they are afraid of having to endure pain in order to gain their life back... they want change, but aren't willing to sacrifice for it. I help those I truly see wanting it and working towards it, and those that aren't, can only be truly helped when their ready to suffer in order to help themselves basically speaking.
Denial, self sympathy, empath, etc... it doesn't work with PTSD, and these are the failure rates usually. The moment a person gets help, that is a positive sign, but it doesn't mean the person wants to get better. They may think they want to get better, but if they truly wanted it, they would do anything in order to get it, no self sacrifice to mental pain or physical pain due to mental pain would stop them.
Lots of people want help, but only a few reach that point of no return, which must be reached to truly endure the pain it takes in order to heal PTSD, being those who will succeed no matter the self cost of illness to do so.