A success story was asked to be shared and several were...even if that success to an individual means partial healing or just "making it".

Success might have several different individual meanings, and when we make a public post, we should be able to accept the responses given with good intent.

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I don't care what it looked like (catharsis or something more gentle) or how you came to find this resolution, I just want to hear about someone making it out. Someone waking up one morning with a completely different body and mind than the one they woke up with the day before.

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I'm a success story. I am one who is seen as "making it out. Someone waking up one morning with a completely different body and mind than the one they woke up with the day before." I've seen much healing, but to achieve what I consider success, I also had to accept that events in my life had changed me. I worked to heal what I could, then accept and manage what I couldn't. I don't know that you'd want to read about my success story, though, considering it was BOTH healing and acceptance then maintaining that saw my success.

It seems that you possibly only want to hear about what can be healed by an eradication of all symptoms, as opposed to maintaining what it is you're dealing with presently as best you can.

I'd say that would be just one form of success...one not often seen with PTSD as it's created by life events...life events change us emotionally, mentally and physiologically, and become a part of who we now are. Almost everything that we do, or that happens in our lives change/affect us in some way...in lasting ways...from the simple, food we put in our bodies or change in exercise, to the complex, traumas.

Due to the unsupportive comments in this thread, I will be closing it.

In the future, when publicly posting, please look to the intent of the poster (which is to share and give support), take the sharing/support that can be taken into self and leave the rest that might not apply *without* attack or clearly unsupportive comments.

I appreciate all who contributed to this thread, and thank you for the contributions.

KD