Research What Would People With Ptsd Like To See Researched?

[Knak]

I am interested in knowing the specific areas of the brain affected and the neurological changes and how it can be fixed.

 

[Lullaby_Blue]

Sometimes I look at the studies that are asked about here and can't really see how that study will h...

Dissociative disorders.

 

[Chimera]

Horticultural Therapy and it's impact alongside treatment for csa. Also the impact in general on ptsd.
I have read a lot about the healing environment it can provide to combat vets, as they relearn living with injuries, tbi, trauma, ptsd and other challenges, also the healing in the elderly ..but not very much about csa.

This is a field I am very interested in.

 

[Carlos Menem]

Dissociative disorders.

This.

 

[Thematrix]

Further to @Red Cherry, I would like to see research into the lack of proper support and services and its real term impacts in all ways. I would like to see non biased research into the impacts of 'professionals' and their misunderstanding or ignoring of their own ethics and and the basics of trauma and establishing safety that to often cause more harm, and how often this occurs and at what costs to sufferers and their families.

I would like to see research into cracker jacks that are diagnosing non criterion A as PTSD and why they are not losing their licenses

I would also like to see research into why, the root causes are not being addressed and why systems that are clearly and knowingly, so broken do not change.

I would like to see research into the numbers of medical and support workers that do not understand their own ethics because if they did, there is no way in hell these systems would be broken to the point of corrupt and who this really helps because it is not the PTSD sufferer...

I would like to see research into why if said systems and processes are so broken and this is factually known and acknowledged, why no one is accountable for their complicite roles which perpetuate retraumatization and victimization endlessly and why these cycles are allowed to continue in society knowingly

I would also like to see more research into somatic approaches and treatments outside the box, and most importantly:

**** research into repairing brain damaged areas ( no amount of talking works for me, it's just retraumatizing and makes me worse ) : lets find the cure : ) that would rock!!!

 

[CriticalMars]

I am actually in the middle of a paid PTSD/Trauma Study through Stanford University, one more set to go...

I will have to look into this. It sounds interesting.

 

[CriticalMars]

Everyone look up childhood adverse experiences the study was conducted in california. They linked childhood trauma to mental illnesses and physical illnesses based on a point system. It sounds like a ground breaking study on childhood trauma.

 

[BDAR]

Thank you for asking. So many researcher, doctors, and other professional just assume they know what is needed in order to help people with mental health issues, very few ever ask the person suffering what is needed.

I have a few ideas.

1) Is there a connection between personality types and PTSD. Are the people mainly type A personalities, introverts, extroverts, etc ? Is there a personality type that is more prone to PTSD?

2) The loss of confidence and self-esteem, what role does that play in fueling PTSD symptoms and hampering recovery? I never see much about a lack of confidence and self-esteem, but I know I lost it all and have had to big hard to find it again.

3) The role of peer support, is it a good thing because it is like minded people sharing and helping one another, or is it a bad thing because the sharing keeps the trauma in the pictures and triggers others? Does constantly being reminded of it and being drawn into others trauma help of hinder recovery?

4) The percent of professional in mental health roles that are there because they experienced a personal mental health injury? We have all had a bad experience with therapy, you know the kind that makes you think the therapist is sicker than I am. Should they have to self-disclose?

5) The role photography can play in helping others get well? Photography has lifted me from the bowels of hell to recovery. To me it was a game changer and a life saver. Perhaps it is for others

6) How do people with PTSD interact with others? Personal relationships, friends, family and social? Are we lacking social skills?

 

[BDAR]

I am interested in knowing the specific areas of the brain affected and the neurological changes and how it...

Hi there, I know this post is older, but I am new here and I just wanted to share that Dr. Ruth Lanius is one of a handful of doctors that has studied this very topic. She took soldiers, put them in a high resolution scanner and triggered them, it was horrible for them, but the research that came from this study shows that the frontal lob stops functioning and small areas of the brain light up (triggers), all over the place. In addition the right rear area of the brain tries to take over the thinking since the front lob is off-line. Of course we all know how that works out for us.

 

[Knak]

Hi there, I know this post is older, but I am new here and I just wanted to share that Dr. Ruth Lanius i...

Yes, I have seen a lot more research and read this and other things but still they don't say much that is sure to help change it, especially since some say grey matter is destroyed.

I have had luck with EMDR but hit a roadblock and cringe at the thought of looking for a new therapist. I continue to do better despite that but I don't go anywhere because my driving is dangerous. I also am more easily and deeply affected by being hurt.

I was hurting myself physically after the therapy went bad but hope that phase is over. I pay more attention to my limits and stop or fix my reactions.

 

[pixel]

**** research into repairing brain damaged areas ( no amount of talking works for me, it's just retraumatizing and makes me worse ) : lets find the cure : ) that would rock!!!

^ this! :D

we believe in neuro-plasticity! we can fix this :woot:

in fact, i propose we challenge DSM-V that PTSD is not even a mental illness, anymore than dementia and autism are.
we have experienced trauma that has affected the structure, functioning and regulation of the brain.

• how many of us here have thought we were developing dementia, due to our shocking memory problems?

• how many of us have struggled to look ppl in the eye, felt confused about the meaning of conversations we are having, or been hyperstimulated by too many lights on, too much noise, the room is too small or too crowded etc...?

those are classic symptoms of dementia and autism

this fulls me with hope that it is neurological, something that be repaired and we can get better: we just need more research done! :tup:

 

[Sadtriedandtrue]

Sometimes I look at the studies that are asked about here and can't really see how that study will h...

I would like it researched when neighbors know children are being continually abused day after day and can hear screams and cries why they don't do anything about it?