#PTSD treatments

[suzannekane]

PTSD Treatments: What Works Best?

Photo by Gabriel Lamza on Unsplash PTSD treatments that work are a top priority for millions of people. PTSD is a devastating and debilitating condition. Yet for those living with PTSD, all eager for ways to overcome it, there’s hope. Here’s how to better treat PTSD and beat it. PTSD Treatments: How to Better Treat It As for PTSD treatments, anyone with PTSD knows how it detracts from their…

[vantagerecoverypoint]

Don’t Worry If You Have PTSD Symptoms, Get the Proper Know-How to Address It

PTSD is acknowledged by the medical community as one of the most severe yet treatable disorders. This legitimate health concern also reflects the empowerment of patients to give a positive response to overcome this problem. The most five significant realities are explained in this article to educate people and promote understanding to foster a conducive environment for healing and recovery. With a range of effective treatments like psychotherapy and Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy (VRET), today patients can start the transformative journey of their lives. Enhance your personal and spiritual strengths to alleviate symptoms of PTSD.

[allpleasuer]

Surviving PTSD: Healing Strategies and Resources

Surviving PTSD: Healing Strategies and Resources ALL PLEASUER Understanding PTSD Causes of PTSD Surviving PTSD: Healing Strategies and Resources Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition triggered by experiencing or witnessing a terrifying event. This can include severe accidents, natural disasters, war, physical or sexual assault, and other traumatic incidents. It’s not…

[sage-hazeline]

how do you reconnect to life after being disconnected for so long

[imnotditzy]

Since Fawcett takes place in the fifties (in my AU), and the Second World War ended in nineteen thirty nine, it’s not unreasonable for a good chunk of the population of Fawcett to be war veterans as their state had a large amount of survivors. But imagine the amount of traumatized young residents coming back from the war and just not being fazed by anything. Fawcett was so numb to all the weirdness showing up in their hometown, the veterans going numb from war, members of the community too busy or traumatized to care from the whole experience. The emotions families must’ve felt watching their people come back shells of themselves. Cracked in ways they can’t fix, with no way to make them the people they used to be. And then having to go back to regular life, Fawcett most definitely was struggling.

Maybe that’s why they like Captain Marvel so much, he’s a symbol of optimism after the lives they’ve lived.

[neuroticboyfriend]

do you have "treatment resistant depression" or are you just fundamentally living a life that would make anyone depressed?

are you just dealing with abuse, poverty, and oppression? are you just dealing with a lifetime of trauma? do we just live in a society where peoples basic needs are neglected, and the completely understanble response to that is pathologized? on purpose? so that it's just an individual problem and people arent Trying Enough... so nothing about the system has to change?

...do you have "treatment resistant depression," or do you just need real community, support, resources, and protection?

[dreadpiratesilas]

Medical File DN-407P Paladin Danse Patient symptoms included inability to sleep and a "dull throbbing pain in head." All standard tests are negative. Evidence suggests post-traumatic stress disorder or similar issue. Until severity of issue increases, recommend voluntary removal from active duty. Patient was informed, but is currently in the field.

Do we know if Knight Captain Cade's terminal entry for Danse was made before or after he set out with Gladius?

I'm guessing he saw Cade before the mission thinking he was just going in for headaches and assumed it was lack of sleep. To his surprise it led to a PTSD diagnosis prompting Cade to recommend Danse take some time off. Danse probably refused to accept the diagnosis and went on the mission anyway, hence the “patient was informed, but is currently in the field”.

Later on during the mission, Haylen would again diagnose Danse with PTSD (although she called it 'Battle Fatigue' in her terminal entry) and would recommend bed rest, which Danse would also refuse.

(The next part is a content warning for suicide ideation)

I think Danse was suicidal. It kind of reminds me of Preston where he describes just not caring what happened to him. Danse wasn't going to take his life with his own hands but instead would just keep doing mission after mission until he was ground down and eventually died in battle.

He actually cares about his squad, though, and his feelings of responsibility towards them kept him from actually doing it.

Tangent

That would actually make Blind Betrayal more climactic and sad because you get to see this arc where he starts to understand that people care about him and he finally gets to enjoy being close to someone just to have his life turned upside down. Only this time he doesn't want to die. He feels like he has to because of duty, which is the exact same excuse he would have used anyway to end his life.

In fact in that context when Maxson confronts the two of you leaving the bunker, pretty much everything he says is basically a huge PTSD trigger.

Tangent: I have a lot of thoughts on Maxson and Danse's relationship in general, but also the face that Maxson had sent Cade a memo telling him to take mental health seriously. Danse was the only one who had any kind of mental illness diagnosed. They decided to wait until his symptoms worsened and let him go on that mission anyway and just marked his case as “treated”. I'll do a separate post about that, though. I've digressed enough.

[bipolarmango]

Therapy takes time.

Unlearning behaviour takes times, even if not proceeding with that behaviour would make sense in your head.

Let's normalize that going to therapy for a few times won't probably magically turn your life around, especially if you come from years of trauma or mental health issues (or both). Cut yourself some slack for not magically just dropping and unlearning the coping mechanism you have learned and kept for years, sometimes for decades, in order to survive. It's a process, and you're doing it at your own pace.

[writterings]

hate when therapists get suspicious when you're well educated on mental health and/or are self aware. sir i live here. of course i'm going to be able to articulate myself well about my mental illness. that does not mean im making it up.

[followerofmercy]

My other favorite thing about Murderbot is Murderbot's internal narrative steadily shifting from 'resolutely denying that it's having an emotion' because, like, it was company property tf was it gonna do about it, to Network Effect's run-on paragraph that had me staring at the wall on my lunch break where it equates being out of control of a situation to being out of control of itself and then that's one step away from being back in control of the company

[angelmush]

what’s everyone’s fave fall fragrance PLEASE tell me

[jawz]

if you continue treating BPD like a set-in-stone subject, you continue to stigmatize so many women who have been harmed by the psychiatric industry.

i have been straight up discriminated against multiple times in medical settings for having those three letters on my charts. my life got better the day i rejected that bullshit diagnosis and decided to go to the root of my problems instead of hiding behind the shield of Sensitive Difficult Person Disease.

if we actually treated trauma victims with any dignity this wouldn’t even be an issue

[system-of-a-feather]

FYI when it comes to trauma processing, sometimes one of the healthiest and productive decisions you can make is to ACTIVELY choose to avoid and not address an issue right now even if you "should"

Its easy to get caught in the "talk about it, use therapy productively, if you aren't doing anything, you aren't Doing Anything" and, while compulsive habitual avoidance typically causes temporary stagnation, ACTIVE acknowledgement that you are CHOOSING to ignore it and avoid it because you are CHOOSING to give yourself space and time is such a fundamental skill to emotional awareness, self regulation, self compassion, and rebuilding trust within yourself to maintain your own boundaries even when you feel that you "should" ignore them

Actively choosing to not address a topic at the moment is good practice at saying "I am not ready and I need more time and for that reason I am going to actively refuse to engage in this topic at the current moment" which helps so immensely at being more mindful of your own needs and emotional states which can be hard as someone with C-PTSD

Sometimes the best and most healing thing you can do for yourself is Nothing.

[candidateofloyalty]

While Akihiko is autistic it would never occur to him to get tested because he relies on Mitsuru to keep track of his medical appointments. This is a problem because Mitsuru is also autistic but because her grandfather sucks she simply received instruction in acting more neurotypical from an early age, preventing her from realizing and therefore from noticing similar traits in Akihiko. She does however schedule their blood work for their HRT on the same day so they can go out for ice cream afterward.

[sanduchengjiu]

I think I’ve realized why wwx is so jiang cheng’s tears-phobic. He lowkey internalized that Jiang cheng is just like his mom into the sense that Jiang cheng’s bad moods are compartmentalized in the part of wwx’s brain that kept all the anger and vitriol yzy had for him. I think a part of him thinks that jc’s anger is somehow going to be turned against him in the way yzy’s was, even though most times jc was justified in his anger, in wwx’s perspective that anger is something to be avoided. It’s a big part of why I think wwx acted so fast in finding a solution to the golden core situation, even at the expense of his own life. He was made to feel (by yzy) that he owed her a life debt for the simple act of saving him and taking him in. Every privilege that he enjoyed was turned on its head and spit back out at him and his whole life he felt like he was bidding his time until yzy got sick of him enough to do something about it. On the other hand jc could not understand why wwx was so eager to leave, he saw him as a brother the minute he got over his dogs being taken away and went to find wwx. Jc does not see their relationship as so transactional as wwx does, so his anger towards wwx is that of a family member towards another. But since anger had been weaponized against wwx so much as a child (and jc too but his situation was different obv) he feels an obligation to either solve the problem right away , or distance himself from jc and his feelings. He doesn’t think that jc cherished him enough to handle his feelings and have an equal back and forth relationship with him, when obv that’s not true. Its also why wwx was so happy go lucky all the time, I’m sure him and jc had their moments when wwx felt frustrated or angry but we never really see those feelings resurface that much. He was so drawn to working with resentment bc he has a pool full of it inside him. I honesty do like that wwx is so positive but you can’t deny the fact that his trauma is something intense and it informs his relationships with all the other characters including lwj. Instead of assuming that lwj wanted to help him (which was true) he went with the narrative that someone as righteous as lwj would not want anything to do with him, going so far as to believe it even when told otherwise.

[bipolarmango]

Stuff my therapist says that's hurtful but true

If, as a child, you had to constantly earn approval or fend off criticism, you may unconsciously seek partners who trigger similar patterns, perhaps in hopes of finally “winning” validation or being “enough” in a way you couldn’t achieve with early caregivers.