Posted on May 10, 2015
Did you find you PTSD treatment effective? Did you make significant improvement?
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For those who went through PTSD treatment do you think it was effective? My treatment was going to group therapy for a year. It was very random in nature. What is your story if you wish to share it? Did you make significant improvement?
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I do one-on-one with the therapist off-and-on depending on my work schedule. I've been on medications and did biofeedback.
Combined they helped out with the little things - I recently used what I had learned to talk a soldier down from a panic attack.
Honestly, the thing that worked best for me was self-prescribed equine therapy. I'm too scared that my issues aren't 'legitimate enough' to qualify for the program (for example: one must be assigned to WTU to be able to attend lessons), so I started volunteering at a horse rescue.
Combined they helped out with the little things - I recently used what I had learned to talk a soldier down from a panic attack.
Honestly, the thing that worked best for me was self-prescribed equine therapy. I'm too scared that my issues aren't 'legitimate enough' to qualify for the program (for example: one must be assigned to WTU to be able to attend lessons), so I started volunteering at a horse rescue.
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I believed I belonged in it for the first year or so, sir. Some appointments were weekly and it got to the point where I had as many as 4 appointments in 1 week. It just took some time to figure out what worked best for living with it.
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Dealing with the issue currently. It is effective, but the issues are not going away, just how i deal with them is changing. I still have significant issues dealing with things that bring back times best forgotten, but hopefully, I will someday at least be able to go through an entire day without losing control of my mouth, temper, emotions, Etc, Etc Etc
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MAJ Ken Landgren
First two hours after waking up I numb myself. Then I feel a little anxiety, depression, or racing thoughts. If I feel those emotions are to strong I numb myself again.
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1SG Jason Fitzpatrick
Saturday the next door neighbor's kid and his damn friends decided to let off a bunch of fireworks in the middle of night. After I gathered my wits and put myself back together, I went over to the house and politely asked them to at least give a little warning before shooting them off, and maybe a little earlier in the evening versus 2245. Just as I was getting ready to leave, some little twenty something prick came out and told me that I was on private property and he wanted me to leave...I didn't think that I was hostile in any way shape or form, but when I got home after dealing with that "individual" I was shaking and my breathing was very shallow. My wife asked if I was okay and said that she was worried that I had lost my temper and if everyone over there was okay...I am glad that I did get out of there, because I did see nothing but RED.
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Best thing is to go to rehab to cope with the ptsd. And have some relax time with family, also get a service dog, they will help you with your mind, cause when you walking for instance and there a loud sound, it might soubd like enemy fire, the pet will either lick you or bark to get you out of that "I'm in the battlefield" stage.
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