The 3 best ways to treat trauma and PTSD

Where? Where can I go to get this help? I’m asking for several thousands of friends.

I have PTSD and a chronic medical condition. Therapy is something I feel I need to avoid because of needing to share my experience even if it’s only once, only to not receive the help I need or any benefit. I’m going to share a bit and hopefully my experience will help someone else. This is my story:

I am a first year medical student. I am studying neuroscience, neurobiology and microbiology. All online because of my illness and inability to attend university classes in person. Prior to attending university level classes I studied for more than 5 years independently. I have a personal history of trauma beginning in early childhood. As a teenager I was removed from a bad family situation and placed in group homes and foster care.

I received therapy within the group homes (to put it in prospective this was in the very early 2000’s when teens were often placed on drugs for mental health that we know better than to give to teens now). In these various places I was exposed to very bad experiences that no child or teen should ever experience. This was during a time when infants who were placed in the same system I was in were being found dead in garbage cans. At 18 I was left to fend for myself and was homeless on the streets. I’m lucky to be intelligent enough to have survived and not only to have survived but to have made something better of my life. Most of those people who I shared my experiences with as a teenager (the other children in these places with me) were not as lucky as myself. Most went on to becoming drug addicts, imprisoned or worse, dead. I don’t know a single person who went through these experiences with me who can truly say they survived. I’m alone.

Although I certainly believe therapy to be of some benefit, such as providing coping mechanisms, therapy only ever seemed to serve as a mechanism to relive my trauma. I would often get the comment, and still do, that I was doing well “considering”. This infuriated me. As if the only thing that therapy could help me with was reliving my trauma, it was no longer able to help me cope because I had all the skills I needed. There was never any suggestion as to how I could improve my life or when I wouldn’t need therapy anymore even after I was “doing well considering”.

For more than a decade now I’ve suffered through the results of coping well. As it turns out my body was still not coping with my stress even though my mind was. This has the very real consequence of helping change your gene 🧬 expression. I happen to be genetically predisposed to a very rare, complex and chronic condition. This was something new to cope with. I didn’t have that tool. So back to therapy.

Therapy, unless I’m experiencing something at the very moment, is an appointment I dread. It will inevitably make me feel worse, not just mentally but physically. I needed to do something different. Often times for many people experiencing a chronic illness there is no way out and it makes the tools that therapy can provide you with less applicable to you. I can’t even exercise or do yoga or go take a walk and feel the sun on my face. All which are great therapeutic ways to get out of a slump.

I have found a lot of people out there who are also suffering with chronic conditions. Even if they don’t start with PTSD like me, just being sick (indefinitely) can cause a significant impact on your mental health. That community can offer immense support. I found it better than talking to a therapist who didn’t have any ability to relate to my experience. I found solace in being able to help myself without dependence on my doctors.

Anyone who has experienced a chronic illness should be familiar with how you can get tossed from one specialty doctor to the next and never finding a solution or cure. Unfortunately the fact is that medical science has only ever truly cured one disease ever. Small pox. That realization is horrible (and I’m sorry if this is the first you’ve ever heard of it). I’m now a medical student because I spent years feeling defeated by the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry. Helping myself to feel better and working towards my own cure, even if I’m unsuccessful, is more therapeutic than anything else that I’ve done. I suppose it’s a lot like how people who help others are really helping themselves.

I know not everyone is going to go around and research like some mad scientist and that will be some miracle cure for their mental health. However, being even somewhat educated regarding your own health can make you feel empowered. It doesn’t matter if it’s mental or physical at that point. It provides you with some control over your own wellbeing. That’s important and helpful to a lot of people. Also, if that’s not something you feel you can do for yourself, that’s ok. There are also others out there who have the same or similar experiences to you and knowing your not alone and being able to discuss it with someone, someone who you can relate with, can also be very helpful. That’s what group therapy is. Except the great thing is you don’t need a therapist in the group to have a group and a support system. There are alternatives to traditional therapy for those who might struggle with therapy and for those who don’t see an end in sight.

How could i make you my therapist?

Who is this and what’s the name of his channel please?

Also, when you relay all these horrible memories, it’s like you’re there. Literally, your brain doesn’t know the difference.

Yes!! Validation that the trauma did affect me, rather than minimizing it or blaming me for being too sensitive – “ you think too much!!..”.

That's all very well, but it doesn't give any guidance on what type of therapy is good or on how to find it.

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Bro just play videogames and watch movies all day to forget about it

I’m here because I have ptsd from centaura on Roblox

what about compounded trauma that keeps being compounded?

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what are you doing with your hands dude?

Thank you for saying this! I have major PTSD. My church paid $14,000.00 for me undergo EMDR. For one year, once a week I went for the treatment. The psychologist never got past 5 yrs old! Very powerful but the man i saw taught me zero!