You think I have too much to say? I have thirty years DSM defined PTSD.

Im not jesting when I say Irish whiskey saved my life. People with PTSD as defined bybthe DSM are also people with feelings. I am a person with feelings. I have very strong feelings about people with DSM type PTSD who drink and drug to avoid suicide or psychosis. I have strong feelings of compassion and empathy and support and I dare say love.

Western medicine could offer me nothing to give me natural sleep without heart pounding nightmares I feared more than possible death by alcohol induced respiratory failure. Irish whiskey kept me alive to discover in a health food store a little booklet by pain and trauma researcher Billie J Sahley that taught me how and why to restore GABA so I could begin to recover.

Psychotherapy is proven ineffective for PTSD of the DSM type. DBT and CBT don't help the men and women who had to engage in violence as adults with no previous mental illness or personality disorder. They may well help people who were unable to learn these skills in childhood.

There are effective alternative therapies for PTSD. I've not heard of them through psychotherapists.

I will use as much bandwidth as I can fill on this topic.