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Close Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Treatments

Art Working / Worked

Identifying emotions is hard for me, but when I look at my art they can become much more obvious...esp underlying triggers. We have used my drawings as a tool in EMDR therapy and it has been very helpful.

Effexor Somewhat Helpful

Tried this years ago before my C-PTSD diagnosis. It wasn't right for me. It did help me stop weeping everyday and helped the comments from my emotionally abusive partner roll off my back, and eventually helped me leave. But it made me shop obsessively (I bought a dog a house and a car...not small things!), do lots of home improvement projects, have a total lack of focus at work, and neglect paying bills on time. I wouldn't take it now, but it did help me with a major hurdle then.

EMDR Working / Worked

This has been truly amazing, and I started out very skeptical. I never knew my mind was made of such layered complexity. It is hard work, but it helps every time.

Psychotherapy Working / Worked

Finally, with a therapist who really empathizes, I have begun to feel safe to release what I have hidden away.

Reading Working / Worked

Always. Finding this site and reading for an hour lifted me out of a slump today.

Talking Working / Worked

Oh yes...my wonderful friends hear so much from me now. I'd be lost without them. Thank God for the big ears and hearts of the people in my life. :)

Close Sexual Abuse

I'm not sure I can tell this story yet...still trying to learn it myself.

Treatments

Art Working / Worked

see ptsd

Leave Working / Worked

far far away

Talking Working / Worked

see ptsd

\"The Courage To Heal\" Working / Worked