Loving that avatar of yours!

There’s a whole range of therapies and in fact, I sort of have a plan to write up my various experiences some time.

I started with talk therapy, then I had some kinesiology (which was awesome). I didn’t do anything for a while after that, mistakenly thinking it would just take time to heal. Wrong!

The most important thing to do is get help, but ironically it can be one of the toughest things to do – reach out for support.

Eventually I started more talk therapy again, this time with someone who is specialist in dealing with trauma. I also reccomend massage and acupuncture as complimentary treatments to support the body while you go through something like this.

Once we reached a blockage she couldn’t get passed, she referred me to receive EMDR. Which has been an enormous and miraculous experience for me.

There are plenty more treatment types, and its important to find what works for you as no two people are the same.

But the other misnomer is that it only happens in really extreme situations (like war, witnessing a murder, nearly dying or sexual abuse). My experience was the result of one night of physical assault only. I was more suprised than anyone else to receive that diagnosis!

Its very true – most people turn the other cheek and never try to understand. So once again, thanks to CC for highlighting the issue here on GSTF.

Never (thankfully) having ever suffered in such a way it can be difficult to comprehend what you have no experience of.

And let’s face it, the average person often prefers to turn the other cheek when confronted by something they don’t know, don’t understand, and are semi (wholly) scared / intimidated by it as a consequence.

And good for you CC, however difficult it may be, you ARE dealing with it.

Cheers girls!

FF

What can be done to alleviate the suffering if it is ‘ in the head’….

What therapy / remedies have you tried?

Yes, PTSD can feel like its something that’s happening to you from an outside force. Especially if the experiences/flashbacks are strong enough.

My theory on why that is, has to do with the fact that the original stimulus was external. And when a flashback is entirely overwhelming, it feels as if the trauma you experienced is happening right now.

Of course, to someone who hasn’t experienced a PTSD flashback, it would make sense that ‘its all in your head’. And it does to me now. But while I was in the grip of the ongoing nightmare of PTSD, no… it felt very much like Groundhog Day, and fully outside of my control.