"Now, after reading articles like this one, I wonder if it is true -- I just needed to get over it." quote Di Meloira

How would you have known that really though? And if I recall you were also diagnosed with PTSD, and they have found that with that disorder there are changes in the brain that can be identified and can present extra challenges in how the patient can control anxiety and anger and other challenges that plague them. What you experienced most likely is that you reached a point where you just simply could not control this condition and as you discribe, became "desperate", that is also what happened with me as well. And in all honesty, di meloira the increasing desire to isolate is something that all patients that struggle with PTSD gravitate to doing.

And unless we find a therapist that really understands this condition and how to understand our anger and frustration, we are not going to truely get the help we need, infact the wrong therapist can do even more harm to us and cause us to suffer even more.

The one thing I do know about PTSD is that it can cause the patient to experience a great deal of "self loathing" and "self disappointment" and unless the patient learns to understand this and keeps making efforts to work away from it, it can get serious.

I had the pleasure of having a Neuropsychiatrist come out to my farm as a client. She talked about how they are now studying brain injuries and how these injuries affect emotions. She did say that we do know that with PTSD we can see that changes/injury has occured in the brain where the hypocampus shows cell damage and shrinkage and the amigdyla also shows changes as well. So this idea of maybe I just needed to get over it somehow, is not so simple. She also talked about memory problems with PTSD as well. I do experience that myself, but comes to me in more of how I can lose track of time, or may be deep in thought and be going to do something and suddenly forget what it was. However I can remember things about "interactions" that affect me where others may simply forget.

I do agree that psychiatrists/therpists diagnose too quickly and in that can promote confusion or misunderstanding of the patient.

What I do my best to try to remember is that while I see the mistakes that happened to me, I try my best to take note of them but stay in the now and continue to focus on learning and making gains. I also remind myself to be grateful for what is known about how I struggle and that I can learn about it and get therapy for it as well. I honestly don't know how others in the past dealt with this challenge before it was recognized and efforts were made to understand it and learn how to treat it.

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