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Old May 02, 2015, 07:47 AM
Giucy Giucy is offline
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PTSD too, in addition to perinatal brain injury sequelae.

The only kind of therapy that works for my PTSD is a combo of CBT + psychoanalysis + yoga.
CBT alone is not enough to help and psychoanalysis alone is not enough. I am too tense for yoga alone.

I need both the practical tools of CBT + the deeper understanding psychoanalysis gives me in order to help falshbacks, panic attacks etc... + yoga's help.
With these three techniques, I don't need any anxiety med.

Currently, the yoga teacher is absent because it's school holidays until Monday. Panic attacks and flashbacks came back in full force, so I reluctantly take PRN med as instructed by pdoc and GP (they both know I hate it, even when suffering is unbearable. Both are clear that preference for alternative methods is one thing, but it's excessive when I prefer unbearable suffering than PRN for fear of misuse. I recognize that their assertion is right, my fear of addiction is grossly out of proportion with the reality).

IME, there's nothing wrong with using tools you gain from different theoretical background.
If you feel you need more than one therapeutic technique to help you, it's absolutely ok and is irrelevant to your value.