I just love the fact....

THAT THERE IS NO CURE FOR THIS.

I feel like a worthless piece of crap compared to the way I used to be able to interview my clients with ease and now I am the one stuck in the chair, seemingly forever. No cure. I love it.

exposure therapy has been very helpful for some individuals diagnosed with PTSD.

Yeah, I'm kinda wondering if your therapist is doing anything specifically for PTSD?

Nope, not yet...looking for specialist...I want EMDR and TFT....hypnosis "cleared" something for 3 days - the racing thoughts - but that was it.

Jennie..what is exposure therapy?

TGC

Right... but they say it can become less intrusive.

exposure therapy
http://www.ncptsd.va.gov/publication.../n4/keane.html ..... I, for one, do not believe it is good therapy for PTSD... and certainly IMHO hasn't been tested with long-term effects, good or bad. sigh.

The sad fact is that almost no mental health treatments are studied for long-term effects -- therapy or meds. It's pretty scary when you stop and think about it. A friend of mine works for an organization that treats a lot of PTSD/rape victims - exposure therapy seems to work really well for them.

I am seeing a t that specializes in people that suffer from trauma. She uses EMDR and it seems to be helping me. I have never heard of exposure therapy but it may be something to look into. Hope you find the help you deserve.

Perhaps the clarification might be made... um maybe exposure therapy works for those who were recently traumatized?? Maybe like also the debriefing for military and then send them back in. However, it's been studied that the desensitization process like for phobias ---reexposing victims to the same or similar trauma situations only REtraumatizes them...

((((Yack)))) they say it can become less intrusive....

Sorry didn't mean to hijack the thread (((((yack))))) may it only seem like it won't be cureable.. and still be cured!

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A form of exposure therapy, flooding pushes patients back into the traumatic experience, forcing them to confront their repressed anxieties and memories. The therapy works, some experts believe, because it reintegrates the two parts of the traumatic memory: the picture of what happened and the emotion attached to it. "When people are first traumatized, they're in an aroused emotional state," says Johanna Gallers, a clinical psychologist and director of the Valley Trauma Center, a crisis intervention center near Los Angeles, who has used flooding extensively with clients. If they don't deal with the trauma at the time, their "feelings get trapped, encapsulated in that heightened state. Often the only way to retrieve those repressed memories is by simulating that original emotional state as much as possible" so they relive the trauma.

What's different is that now they are safe, going back to the fearful memory with a trusted therapist. "They realize they won't get hurt this time," explains John Fairbank, a clinical psychologist who worked for seven years with traumatized vets at the V.A. hospital in Jackson, MS. "Talking about the event tends to be therapeutic, a way to work through your fears. The first few sessions are very emotional for patients, but that tends to diminish with repeated exposure." Normally the treatment lasts for 12 to 15 weeks and is followed up by traditional counseling.


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ok.. flooding has been used for phobias for ages....

I guess if your T says it can help you, then it will.

How are you today, (((yack))) ?