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Originally Posted by Out There
Things do get better. I've used many things in healing from CPTSD and I'm getting there. Some of the things that help are not talk therapy , like EMDR , trauma release exercises , EFT , I've worked with a shaman. So multi-disciplines help with it. We can't change what's over and what's happened , only where we go. It does feel like living a double life - it's the hidden illness. Do you feel hyper aroused / hyper vigilant a lot of the time ? That's a difficult aspect of it.
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Yes I really do. I do a lot of bodywork as I had huge problems through lack of touch. I can now tolerate a massage and sometimes book one when my t is away. I use mindfulness and meditate briefly every morning setting an intention for the day. But it's hard work and I am tired at having to work so hard to appear normal and function at work. Relationships are beyond me and it is very lonely although I am getting better at tolerating my own company now my children are leaving home. Even they have no idea what a struggle life is.