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Jul 10, 2014, 07:59 PM
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Member Since: Nov 2002
Location: Mid World
Posts: 18,118
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Originally Posted by MotownJohnny
I wonder if I'm doing the "wrong kind" of therapy. It's just "talk therapy" - no particular method or plan that I see - just going in there every week and talking about "how was your week" or "what happened" and "how do you feel about it" really isn't getting me anywhere. In some ways, it actually reinforces the negative, because it's yet another hour of my life to bring up some past unhappy event and bring that into the present.
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Johnny, have you asked your therapist if s/he has any experience doing trauma therapy? It is a specialized field. Plain old "talk therapy" might not do the job.
For what it's worth, there's empirical evidence that CBT is effective. I'm not sure about DBT for PTSD. It was originally developed to treat borderline personality disorder. I know some folks swear by EMDR, but the research into it's effectiveness was flawed.
I'm going to second something Splitimage said. Intrusive thoughts theat "pop into" your head are part of PTSD. CBT treatment can help you learn how to deal with those thoughts.
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