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Originally Posted by Trace14
Welcome to PC and the CPTSD forum! Are you seeing a therapist now? A therapist would be best to help guide you through the trauma. I wouldn't suggest working it out alone. As some of us here have tried and cam e to realize it was much larger than us and we needed help. What I have found for myself is that not working through the trauma keeps us hostage to it. It's very hard and yes re traumatizing , but that's kind of expected, ya know? That's why it needs to be done under a watchful eye, and a professionals care. Do you have access to trauma therapists? Doing this is very hard work and you have to be the one to do the work. The Mental Health providers can only help you gain the tools to work on it yourself. So that type of work requires a strong commitment to want to change. Even when it gets hard, you have to push through, but if it's putting you in a dark place hard you need the help from the professionals. Does this make sense? I feel like I'm rambling   |
Hi there, thank you very much for your thoughtful words. It does make sense indeed
Unfortunately, due to living in the UK and the NHS system here (and also given that I don't live in a city so mental health 'provisions' are not widely available) I would find it difficult to even access fairly 'basic' therapy. I feel grateful for the therapy I've already received and attribute my improved state of health to that work, but I'm nowhere near healed.
I guess my hope is that they'll come a day when I'll be well enough to earn enough money to be able to pay for suitable therapy. Until then, I'm going to need to look at other avenues to try and find my footing in this world.
Thank you very much for the welcome and kind thoughts.