As a nurse, you can understand the physiology of PTSD. Your husband does not need touchy feely solutions to a physiology stuck in sympathetic nervous system arousal. He doesn't have a disorder of the psyche, and there is nothing psychologically wrong with him. He is stuck in physiological stress. He can get unstuck. He can get his body unstuck.

Read David Berceli's books on trauma. They are simple. Dr. Berceli is a psychologist who worked with physiologists and neurologists to understand PTSD. He served in Vietnam, and he served as a Catholic missionary all over the world working with people afflicted by mass trauma, war and natural disaster. He knows from trauma and PTSD.

He designed a method that is safe, simple, free and EFFECTIVE for restoring the body from hyperarousal and stress disorder to normal, peacetime body. It is a series of simple exercises done standing to keep you grounded, stressing and stretching lower body, then gently opening the psoas muscles to activate the bodies natural tremble reflex. You have to try it to be able to judge it.

Why the psoas? Isn't that weird? Deep core muscles that attach our legs, pelvis and back are related to PTSD? Imagine yourself hearing a loud noise, or having to slam on the brakes. What does your body do? It curls over your tender under belly. whether you are standing or sitting, your tilt your pelvis, hunch your shoulders, and curl forward. Every one does. We do that when we are in physical danger, and we do that when we hear bad news. This is why a lot of stress can make our lower back ache. Its why people walking away from a disaster look pitched forward from the hip.

Surely you have seen people tremble after childbirth or other exertions, coming out of anasthesia, or after a fright. This is the body's natural way of shaking off excess stress, and relieving itself of the burden of trauma. We get PTSD and other disorders of traumatic stress, because we suppress this natural instinctual remedy. You know why. We can't have our nursed and policemen trembling as they work. It would scare us to death. We have to suppress our tremble reflex to do our work and avoid frightening each other, but we can also go off after work and reactivate the trembling. It releases us. It frees us. It feels good and it creates lasting change.

Go to traumaprevention.com. Google David Berceli TRE. Look at the videos on youtube. This method works. It is simple. It is pleasant to do. It feels good to shake off trauma. It feels like having had a massage or swum until you feel drowsy. It's delicious. If memories happen, they just happen, without tension. Like...the scary part of a police show without the scary music, with pleasant music instead, if you know what I mean.

I've had PTSD a long time. Like your husband, it wasn't that my life was in danger, I just had a too intimate understanding of the horrors of this life. This method has unfrozen me, released me to live a real life.

It's free. You can work with a certified facilitator or therapist if you choose, or you can learn from Davids book. I learned from the book. There are yoga instructors and therapists who are learning how to teach the method but you don't need a teacher. Davids method is designed to be a stand alone self administered self help therapy.

I'm training to learn how to teach this method to others. I will never make any money at it. It's not a money maker. It's a free method you can learn from a book. But it's a life saving method. It is effective. I've wasted a lot of other people's money on psychiatry and psychotherapy, and got at most a five percent improvement of some symptoms. Waste of life. Bercelis TRE works. GABA works too, for nightmares and night terrors. Those two things are your cure. They have been mine.

Peace,

Teacake