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FindingKatB
FindingKatB
I wrote a while ago I was part of a clinical study for ptsd with different psychotherapies offered.

Today was the official wrap-up. It was my last day, short discussion. It lasted about an hr but it was the most heart-wrenching because I concluded with my story on my experience in the Psych ER.

Exhaustion has me limited in what I can say but I am super-anxious. Is this common for people like us who have finished a treatment or a study? I've gained a lot of value and tools from the study. I have options. I can choose what to do. I've lived a life full of chaos and disruptions that I am aware of what lies ahead.

I need help. Anyone? Is this common?
john12as
john12as
I would say your experience is not uncommon, often such studies are incomplete even though you poured your heart out, you may be feeling unresolved. If you have the option now of picking a therapeutic modality you liked best, you can finish the work you started...?
deleted_user
deleted_user
I would say it is.Althugh i have never gone through those...

But i have gone through processing of the trauma and i could not get out of bed and i had a headcahe like never before........After it felt like something what you're describing....
arfie
arfie
I get weird reactions whenever a session series ends. It is somewhere between anti-climax and inadequacy. I can't quite describe the feeling and anything I can't define gets called anxiety.
deleted_user
deleted_user
My experience is that any change, good or bad, creates stress. And if the change has to do w/ an abrupt end to therapy then it seems to me your reaction is normal.

My perspective is nothing new is wrong w/ you, it's their bad in not providing more debriefing or transition/follow-up info.

Hope this wave passes soon.
deleted_user
deleted_user
That is so true arfie "anything I can't define gets called anxiety"....I do that too.
deleted_user
deleted_user
It is often quite normal to feel what you are having, especially when you have bonded. It is almost like separation anxiety. They have been there for you but now things have changed. Finding a way to continue treatment, such as getting in with a therapist can be help. Kudos to you thinking of your tools. Putting them into practice and seeing positive results may decrease the anxiety. Regardless, Im sorry you are going through this and hope you come up with a plan
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