Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Support Group
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I'm having some success with using Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) skills, has anyone else used them? But more than often I feel like I can't access the skills or try them because my anxiety is in the way, my hypervigilance is in the way, panic ensues. I've been prescribed a low dose of valium but I don't feel like it's working and I don't know how to ask for more. My physician doesn't seem to want to prescribe anything more than the lowest dose. I'm really struggling because my hope is that with proper medication I would be able to focus on DBT skills, mindfulness, feeling my feelings, all of that good stuff. Instead, I'm still suffering :/ I want to reach for alcohol because it at least does the trick in the short term, but it won't help me in the long term.
Any words of wisdom or advice?
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Hyper vigilance is tough stuff. Maybe you can just tell the doctor the truth that you’re not really feelin the medication & maybe he’ll be willing to adjust it? If not you could also try a psychiatrist. Oh & music helps me a lot too.
I don't have the confidence give advice or think myself wise, but I have some experience to share. Take what works for you and leave the rest.
"Skills" is the operative word in my own approach to therapy exercises. Some of the exercises come more easily to me than others, but I don't get to pick up any of them and be a Master with the first try. Even the exercises which felt magical on the first try often prove difficult when I try them later. Finding which tool will work for each new episode has allot of trial and error attached.
I'll pass on sharing my experience with talking to doctors about medication. Suffice it to say that I didn't have much luck in that arena, but one beauty of a group is that everybody has different experience to share.
Welcome aboard, Sophie. Hope you find healing hopes here.
hypervigilance is very rubbish
I wish now that I had just taken an Anti psychotic for just a month to totally reset my stress reaction
Even though they are very bad for you. But I figure if I had just taken them day one so many problems would have been solved immediately. Years on I had to take them cos all the stress drove me insane
So why not stamp on the stress
Day one
They probably won't give you such pills but you need a psychiatrist to get decent medications
Keep on posting would love to see some dbt in action x