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Originally Posted by Walkedthatroad
I tried other ways to heal after being tossed around by a few mentally injurious therapist. I also, tried medications. Unfortunately, none of those things HEALED ME from my childhood wounds, except another go at therapy, and some psychodrama thrown in.
Maybe, people can share what other ways they know to heal from these deep wounds, as oppose to just putting a band-aid or tourniquet on it. I did that for years, but there was gangrene festering below the dressings. I do believe there has to be other ways, but have not heard their stories. Anyone willing to talk of the successes?
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That’s sort of been my experience, may be getting there with current T, may just leave and not try anymore.
The difficulty has been horrendous. Some of that was the original wounds that I was numbed from in childhood.
But some has been infection and wounding and making life more horrible provided by the therapists.
My therapist thinks the main problem in the U.S. is that the system can’t force counselors and therapists to do their own therapy. And those counselors may have their own deep wounds which they haven’t dealt with effectively, may not (fully) know that they are there.
Which is why I like the example/analogy I gave – probably too long – about Semmelweiss and the then-strange order he gave to physicians in his hospital to wash their hands before examining patients after they had been doing autopsies.
Just imagine a surgeon going into a deep physical wound, no anesthetic (because getting to feel pain is sometimes part of what's needed), dirty knife. I didn't know about that possibility going into therapy -- I just thought therapy was the thing to do to help me with problems I was certainly consciously willing to face. (Little did I know, yes, because I was dissociated. But I didn't know about that possibility, either.)