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Originally Posted by (JD)
Well, yes, thinking you're healed from PTSD is a lie. BUT one can progress to a decent life... once life becomes a little more settled and in control, then the depression will also begin to lift... 
Depression tells you lies. You need a mantra so that when you do find yourself thinking negatively you can yell at it saying LIE LIE LIE to the depression (not to your life)... and don't listen to the depression.
Many people who really don't want to end their life are successful because they DO believe that "someone" will "find me in time"...and no one does. Very very few people who I've helped through suicidal thoughts/actions really want to end their life completely... but they do want (and need) to end the life that they are living right now...they need help to change it so it is "livable". Find someone to help you get to that point. |
I never thought I would heal from PTSD. I've always known the best I can do is learn to live with it in the most productive way possible. I'm okay with that. I've had several decades of dealing with it and learning how to conquer it's demons. What I learned from this experience is that in spite of having a wonderful trauma therapist and pdoc, my sickness can still take control in spite of all my efforts to heal.
At this point in my life, I am struggling with simply getting older, which I'm sure was a contributing factor, especially the despair that there is no safe treatment for what ails me and the quality of my life has been greatly diminished because of it - and affects not only me. That's a difficult thing to accept to say the least.
Thanks for your input!
WW