Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Support Group
Find support with others who have gone through a traumatic experience. Whether you have chronic or acute PTSD, we are here for you.
They say that with ptsd knowledge is power. Funny it does not feel that way. When you learn things like dissociation and freeze response. Also when years of wearing masks and portraying the I'm all right persona comes back to haunt you. Even more so when you read that multiple personality can be linked to ptsd. Knowledge is power but it can also be a chain that binds us. Sean
You have to arrange the knowledge in the proper sequence. You have been coping with skills learned when you were traumatized. This needs to be integrated Sean, that is all.
Mindfulness can untangle the mess. We make things way to complex and disaasociation confuses us. We need to keep track and write things down to see how our conscious mind is reinforcing the tood or bad just us trying to be happy. That is all and it is possible. I did it and I am no ne special with any special skills.
It is repetitive and mundane but doable by everyone.rauma.
Sean you are perfect as I and everyone else. You have to live in this moment that is all. That means the past did not even happen or it has no effect on now.
Guilt and judgements are not needed. No right or wrong noi g
I curse what happened that opened the gate for memories to resurface and my PTSD getting much worse.
But it was going to have to be dealt with sooner or latter...Now i least in uderstand the why to so many questions and problems i had...It sucks but it has to be done, otherwise decisions in life kept being mandated by unconscious hidden trauma, well at least in my case...
It is the thoughts. It is the thoughts that drive us crazy and PTSD to grow.
Learn to focus and direct your attention to happiness.