
Jul 12, 2013, 01:10 PM
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Location: Northeast USA
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Originally Posted by Moodswing
I think it's that it's hard to communicate to another person how we are feeling. I would be very very surprised if every person on pc read these articles and said yes that's exactly how I feel, partly because it's not how they feel, and partly because they just won't understand it the same way as the next person.
I wouldn't say that the concept of emotional flashbacks is new. The idea of repetition compulsion is kinda based on it - we have these old bad feelings that repeat, and we try the old bad ways, over and over, to make it come out differently. Sometimes we're not ready to hear it - which is such a cliche, but what has been helpful for me is to find a benchmark (as we used in computers) - a test process that you try every six months or however, to measure how much you've changed. In my benchmark process, my t was interpreting exactly correctly, but it was too painful to hear at first. Who wants to hear, you sound like your mother?? I told him, no offense, but no wonder you're divorced - nobody wants to hear that in ANY context!!
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Hankster, that was not "my" question that you put in quotes.
What I find "good" about this link is that it describes the "cycles" that PTSD can present. Are emotional flashbacks new? No, this information is not really "new", however, the way it is written out and explained is very "well done".
Honestly, what I read of it (I didn't read it all either), it described so much of what I have been trying to describe for a very "long time". I think what this article does is it really articulates the challenges that are so hard for complex PTSD patients to explain to their therapists and even those around them.
Yes, I know that PTSD or more specifically Complex PTSD is often misdiagnosed as "OCD and Depression or Bipolar, or Avoidant personality disorder to name just a few. It is nice to see this "validated" too.
I plan on sharing this article with my T because I think he will agree with how well it is written and that he works his therapy the way this article suggests that works well with patients. In fact we had a discussion about Borderline Personality Disorder because when I saw that here at PC I wanted to learn about it because I met some members struggling with it. He doesn't like the "negative" stigma attached to that disorder and he feels these individuals respond to therapy just as well as someone like me. He doesn't like "feeding negative to people who already struggle with personal value".
I tend agree with his opinion too.
OE
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