Not if the accident was a brightly coloured brick falling on your head.
PTSD help (possibly)
- Thread starter Gelan
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Big Jeff
Winger
I’m exaggerating mate I have had some truly wonderful fishing sessions that I will remember for ever.
I just try to blot out all the blanks.
Bit of a lack of explicit discussion of applicable protocol perhaps .
Gelan
Winger
Agree with that...all good communications and understanding come with good chemistry. My partner didn't gain anything from CBT, but then she's super smart and questions everything, plus her now reduced ego pretends not to be ill.
mysticmackem
Striker
Hard to forget the one's that got away
joemcdokes
Striker
Life is about today and tomorrow, what’s done is done there’s no changing that.
Sadly some cannot move on for whatever reasons and it can not only destroy them but those around them too.
It sounds like a very lonely life for many.
Gelan
Winger
Plus the people close to the sufferer also suffer. Perhaps things would be different if we weren't so obsessed with conditional love, it breaks society.
During my paramedic training it was the start of “ reflecting practice “
It’s a massive thing now with numerous studies about the positive impacts of it to aid learning.
One of my reflections was the negative impact that this has in mental health and imo, some things are best not reflecting on and as a way of coping. we stick them in a box , lock it, soak it in alcohol and throw it into the abyss hopefully never to be seen again.
Reflecting opens that box so it needs soaking again
Unfortunately real PTSD is all about memories that can't be processed due to how the brain dealt with an experience in the limbic system ( amygdala , hippocampus ) . There's a fragmentation of the event that means it can't be located in time , place and meaning . Hence the continual journey into the past to try and sort it .
It's quite distinct from depressive rumination although can look the same
joemcdokes
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Some can overcome things whatever the trauma, some cannot.
I seen someone deteriorate within the last two years due to PTSD leading to alcoholism and death.
I honestly believe they were beyond any help, they knew they had major issues but never changed.
Mix PTSD with addiction you’re virtually screwed.
I would agree with that in the main . What defines those who can overcome is more of a conundrum . As far as the PTSD / addiction thing goes it's a nightmare
joemcdokes
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It was so sad to see, such a great lad but it wasn’t a shock when I heard.
It's like being haunted I suspect . No one else can see the ghosts . It's not hard to see how someone would seek oblivion in substances
JAZZMANB
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Sorry but that's as much hoohaa as the first post
You can walk all day and get nowhere
I honestly can't believe we have to invent these barmy imagination techniques to fix real problems
I'd last about a minute of people talking in that style
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daventry cat
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early trials of treatment using MDMA has apperently been effective
Twisted
Striker
Well that's not true. You can't actually be nowhere
"Image rescripting" is a big part of trauma treatment. Essentially when an old scary thought or image is consistently accessed it gets hard wired . Replacing it or modifying it by practicing another one can work in reducing frequency or intensity of arousal. We tend towards thoughts that are practiced or emotionally laden , image rescripting gives the brain an alternative.
The wife did an EMDR course just before Covid. Speaks very highly of it.
She leans towards ACT these days as her preference.
JAZZMANB
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In your progression scenario you can , you are trying to turn a single step into some kind of first move to a better you
What the OP is describing is basically part of ACT , the acceptance part , giving up on the struggle involved in avoidance
