I'm sure there's already a number of threads on here dedicated to PTSD therapies, but honestly I don't feel too inclined to rummaging through thousands of posts when I can just bring those thousands of posts to myself... well, maybe not thousands, but 10 or so. Yeah, ten would be good.

Alright, I've tried to write this out a couple of times, but I always seem to end up writing about 5 pages of drivel when I try to relay my story, so I'm just going to stick to the facts for the time being: I've had PTSD for 4 1/2 years now, which has been complicated significantly by the presence of a remarkably persistent brain injury that came to exist at the same moment the PTSD did. I've done the medication thing (didn't do me any good), I've done the talk therapy thing (helped, but only so much, and not nearly enough), I've done some light therapy (syntonics, which was actually quite helpful), and some physical therapy (cranio sacral work, which has been the most helpful thus far), and I'm currently doing hypnosis (significant gains from this as well, but I'm still getting consistently triggered by my triggers).

I'm roughly 400% better now than I was 2 years ago, but I'm still not in a place that I see a great deal of value in preserving, if that makes any sense. I guess a simpler way to put it would be "I've come a long way, but not even close to far enough". I have chronic pain from here to ya-ya (once again, significantly diminished, but still constantly apparent), and my episodes following being triggered are absolutely insufferable, so I now avoid my triggers at all costs. Unfortunately, my triggers are things like "going to see my friends", "going to bars and/or restaurants", and "driving a car on a friday night", so I'm living a life now that's about as much fun as a bag of dead ferrets. Simply put, I'm not willing to live like this... from reading on here I can see that a lot of very strong people have found purpose enough to live their life with PTSD-controlled limitations, but I am not going to become one of these people, I'm afraid. I'm taking a "I will beat this or this will beat me" stance, as it's the only thing I'm comfortable with (and honestly, to me, it's the only thing that feels right).

So as of now I'm looking for new therapies to unravel my PTSD, as I truly feel that it's the crux of this whole conundrum. If this hypnosis that I'm doing now doesn't end up doing the trick entirely, I'm planning to try EMDR, and if that doesn't work then I'm considering doing some new therapy called Brain State Technologies, but I wanted to see if there's anything out there that I haven't tried yet/heard about, preferably something that's soliciting great results from the people that have used it.

So does anyone have any stories about things I should try? Hell, does anyone have any stories about things I should definitely not try? I'm open to anything at this point, one of the few things that I see as being good in my life is gaining more information, so lay that stuff on me.