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Emotional pain must be addressed, not numbed. Pain-killers, sleeping pills, sedatives, and etc., only add to the PTSD patient's avoidance of dealing with the trauma. Thus, sedating PTSD patients is a major abuse in which that hospital is guilty of doing to their mental health patients.

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I have PTSD and my medications make my life livable. I neither hide nor run from the things that gave me PTSD, but I do need help in order to function and to be able to sleep.

What I am trying to say is that each patient is unique. While Jennie might not need meds to deal with her PTSD, I and many others, do. Each to his or her own.

Jan