3) I never said it's no big deal, I just choose to have faith in anyone who's ever suffered (and humans in general) that they have the power within to choose how they respond, think, act and ultimately, live, rather than be told that they're helpless to their brain.

I never use the words "broken brain" myself Dragon, I have used that term here in response to others using it, but I don't tell people that "their brains are broken". I don't believe in that.

You and I can believe what we want to believe, but neither of us have the right or qualifications to tell other PTSD patients here at PC that the information out there about the pathology of PTSD is "false or wrong".

And if you read my "supportive" posts, I am always encouraging others to "acknowlege" how they struggle and to work on ways to "overcome" these PTSD challenges. I am a strong believer in having the capacity to "heal" and "learn" and "develope new coping methods".

I, myself am not on any drugs. I was put on Klonopin for a while and instructed to take it three times per day, well, I don't know how others function like that, it just made me very sleepy and it "did" affect my short term memory. But for someone else, they may struggle so bad they need it, so I don't play doctor and tell them not to take it, but I do express my own challenges with it.

You may be at a point in "your recovery work" Dragon where you are noticing some "gains" and may even be noticing that you are "managing the anger and other symptoms much better", but if you "were" severe at one time, you may not have been able to control it like you do now. I know for myself, I didn't have contol over it. I know for myself, that having people tell me things like "it's no big deal" didn't help at all.

I think it is wonderful that you are determined to "overcome it" and I don't doubt that you "do" think about how we often "design our realities" in a way, I agree with that, and have talked about it in other ways, constantly.

And I don't post alot of the "pathology" that I read about because I don't want to encourage others to determine they "can't get better" somehow because of the pathology discribed by studies.

I have talked about raising a daughter with dislexia and how I learned how her brain is different, she was a part of the years of study done by Yale. And, they have just put out a documentary about the findings of that study. My daughter "did" learn differently than other children. I had to learn about how she learned and where her problem areas were. I believed she could overcome it and I really did support her with it and she kept going to Yale for more studies and they saw her last around age 22 or 24 to see how she progressed and learned around this disability. Now she was not dumb, infact she has a high IQ. They were very impressed at how well she compensated for this disablity. They were very interested in what she did and she did tell them how I helped her learn how to study and learn differently. I was paying attention to everything they told me in that study and I spent alot of time figuring out how I could help her learn around her limitiations.

I talk about that because I do want others to consider working around their challenges, not just determining they "can't" or "are broken".

For myself, and being challenged with PTSD, I did have some very angry reactions to things and it just came out of me. I never had that happen before, it was like I didn't have control, it just came out without my even thinking. I had to learn "backwards" in a way with this disorder. I was lucky that my therapist sat with my husband and explained it, because he finally realized that I just spouted anger and he had to let me think about it "after" it came out. It was alot of work for me too, and I didn't know "why" Dragon. Then I finally read what was not fuctioning right in my brain that made that happen. However, with time and what I feel is "learning backwards" I was gaining "more control over it". So, I am "healing something", but it "is" alot of work, and it does take "time".

I have sometimes shared how I have gained on anger and other things with others who battle PTSD. But "others" are not always receptive, and sometimes they get angry and insist they are doomed or can't somehow. Well, perhaps they are not ready, yet, maybe they struggle "more" than I do. Then sometimes I meet up with these people later on and they are doing better and can now see how they were not receptive back then. And I honestly "understand" that now, because I remember when I wasn't doing so well myself.

I "do" see what you are trying to say Dragon, but what I am telling you is "be careful" because how receptive someone is going to be depends on where they are with PTSD. And you may be smarter and more determined than someone else, so what "you" gain, may not be the way someone else may gain.

By your earlier post, yes, I have thought about just that. I have thought "in great depth" actually about "individual realities" and how people tend to "restrict themselves unknowingly". I have even alluded to that in some of my posts too. Oh, I do see alot, so I understand what you are saying. However, depending on how severely someone has PTSD, "they may not" or "looking at things that way" may be too upsetting for them where they are in their challenge. Remember, there is a little bit of "parinoid" there with PTSD sometimes.

Sometimes I don't want to think about the "pathology" that is discussed when I read about "what is happening in the brain" with PTSD. But when I struggle, I also don't want to think I have failed, because I do work hard at it. And I have yet to meet someone who has told me, they are all better, that they don't still struggle with it.
And I don't like to hear "PTSD has no cure" either, because I want to keep "trying to keep gaining on it". No, I don't want to "restrict" myself to "my brain is forever just broken".