I think with treatment, it may.Without treatment it can last forever......best regards.

Well you're stuck in an holding pattern, a nasty feedback loop between mind and body. Therapy is good, art, meditation, nature, friends. All kinds of stuff.

PTSD can be healed. But I think once you've had it, you are a bit more brittle/fragile/what-have-you. So you need to be more self aware than your average bear in order to compensate. Some would say that's a gift.

This is why those who have suffered are often wise, out of necessity. Wisdom doesn't just happen, you have to work for it and serenity is something that requires ongoing work, as counterintuitive as that sounds.

But yes, this can get better. Have hope!

I have been this way for 26 mouths and sometimes it better and others I am on high alart.In counceling for 15 mouths,with no site of ending anytime soon.

11+ years, the hyperarousal and hypervigilance is always there, but it increases/decreases with stress level, and overall peace in my life, yoga and meditation help take the edge off.

So does 4 klonipin

kiki2 - janthina is a wise soul! yes, time will lessen the severity of what you're feeling if you continue on your path toward healing.

almost 30 years ago a major medical mistake threw me into a horrific, rare allergic reaction to a medication. the ensuing illness almost killed me.

i am finally ptsd-free, so i can tell you that ptsd symptoms are treatable and reversible. (and will come more quickly for you since you're already on your path toward healing. i didn't get my ptsd diagnosis until 3 years ago.)

so, the symptoms will go away. i used to be almost hysterically hyperaroused and hypervigilant. now, i'm so at peace it sometimes freaks me out. :)

even so, my first instinct is still to shy away from medical situations and medication in particular. i have to monitor my thoughts. i have to remind myself that trauma is not around every turn in the road. i have to remind myself that i survived once and have the strength to meet the next challenge head on. i have to remind myself that my own self-advocacy can go a long way in keeping me safe.

i don't think medical distrust ever goes away, but we can manage it by our own diligence through monitoring our thoughts and questioning our caregivers. if we empower ourselves ptsd symptoms lose much of their power.

so: i do not accept a single medical opinion; i get a second and/or do research before i make any major medical decision.

i take no medication unless i've double checked with the doctor, the pharmacist, and my own research resources.

give yourself some room. healing is not an overnight process. but you are on your way and should celebrate that!

It does lessen with time I still get to the point that I can hear the pins in a door lock as someone puts a key in it.Throught 2 door ,shooting ear plugs ,the AC and 2 fan.
My PTSD was caused by trama ,The ploice shooting one of my employees 16 times.The meds keep my form jumping out of my skin.


I wish you the best and you may need counceling to help with this, I am sorry about other commits from before I had been to the conseler yesterday and was not in the best state of mind.

I had years of molestation and rape and so have always been hypervigilant. Even in my home, watching TV I am super tense. Everyone tells me to relax and not stress... I wish to God I knew how... I am going to therapy for the first time in my life at 41 and praying that I find some relief....My hopes and (if you believe) prayers for you as well....

My hypervigilance went away, I "treated" myself because it was a long time before I could trust a therapist again.

With time and work, it will go away and you will feel better. :)

MsBook,

How maddening to have people tell you to just relax. They'll say we're obsessing. They think it's just a matter of pulling up our socks and getting on with life. It isn't like that. It is a mental health issue and that requires a lot of self-awareness and spiritual WORK, usually in the form of therapy or one of the meditational disaplines that have grown out of Buddhism.

In short, you have to have your act together WAY more than the people who are criticizing you. And those very people are laboring under the assumption that THEY have their act together. HA. If they did, the presence of a person who is obviously traumatized wouldn't rattle their bars so much. They'd have the capacity for understanding and compassion without having their own equanimity jeopardized.

So here's the good news for all of us, because we have to do the work, the endgame is that we are going to end up saner that average. Toasty, perhaps, but saner.

And that is a real gift from the universe.

just like everyone else we have are strengths and our weakness . it well come and go .so roll with the tide . I have trained myself to escape the problems.just rember your best things about you .hugs minnieha