My psychiatrist is into alternative therapies.......when I was dealing with the trauma I went through with the home care RN stealing my Mothers ID & threatening me through that time, he wasn't sure how to help me at that time, not understanding that PTSD was in the process of happening. He knew I had to be in the hospital because physically I was sick & he knew I was having problems mentally again (thinking it was the easy answer of anorexia....not the PTSD).

We went through trying to define what treatment I really needed once I was out of the medical hospital & still physically & mentally unstable. He had received a flyer about alternative treatments that was a weekend seminar. He provided me with the flyer & the information to go....unfortunately I couldn't afford it but it even got into nutrition, chiropractors, & many other natrual treatments. His belief is still that I have to be the one that puts my life into proper perspective...no one else can do it for me or with me. He is providing me with the seroquel that helps me keep the flashbacks & nightmares away & keeps the depersonalization at a minimum......but the bottom line is ME figuring out ME.

The psychologist I had through my psychiatrist, didn't know how to deal with PTSD & I finally went back to one I had 9 years ago. I have been going through the year time frame when everything happened last year this time.....& depression is trying to force it's way back into my mind. We were discussing that in therapy & I had to chuckle at my psychologist when she said that suggesting meds for the depression wasn't even an option.....remembering how meds effect me.

There are times I wish I could just take a pill & it would all be better.....can't they just wrap a mirical up in a pill? Everything else takes soooo much work. But isn't the saying "anything worth having takes work"?
Debbie