Sufferer Seems Like I Can't Get Anywhere

[Sunset]

Been living with PTSD for what, 5 years now? Only been able to access treatment during these past few months. Trying to keep with it but a lot of times it feels like it's making everything worse. My history's a massive compound of incidents on top of other incidents, it's left me scarred about a lot of support systems as well. Anyway, hope someone maybe has some information or something.

 

[Kiki lou]

I have only been diagnosed with PTSD in the past year but since then my life has been a downward spiral, several bad things have happened since the initial incident that set off the PTSD. I think one of the hardest things is going to therapy once a week or every other as it may be, on top of the psychiatrist appts for my meds. Thankfully I have found a wonderful therapist that has amazing patience. I am not an easy patient and am putting her to the test. I hope that you can find someone like that who can give you a push when you need it, listen when you don't know what to say so just ramble, who can dig things out of me that I never knew were there and most of all keeps reminding me 'I am just cracked not broken." I have also found that yoga, exercise and keeping a journal help. Don't give up, keep pushing and feel free to use my motto. "Must be a good day, I gotta out of bed, right?"

 

[Sunset]

Yeah. I don't have a lot of money, and some of the compounding traumas were related to mental health treatment. I go, but I'm constantly terrified of saying the wrong thing in front of the therapist. I'm terrified to cooperate with treatment because I've had so many other things people tried to treat, things that weren't problems but just made people uncomfortable.

 

[WillyKat]

Sometimes it seems like its 10 steps forward and 9 back. Makes the trend look bad. I should talk, right. I have the same issues.

Therapy is like walking through a river of excrement with cinder blocks tied to your feet. You have to go through the deep parts to get to the other side. Hang in there. (Now if I could just follow the advice I give to others...sigh indeed.)

 

[Sunset]

Wait how did my thread title get changed? That's not at all what this thread is about!

 

[intothelight]

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Debbie