More and more we hear about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD, but what does it really mean? Who is affected and how? Jeffrey Matloff, istant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCSD, and Clay King, Acting ociate Director VA San Diego Healthcare System, discuss PTSD with special emphasis on how our combat military veterans are affected. Series: Health Matters [6/2006] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 11668]
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I was talking to …
I was talking to you BitterHappiness, below.
Before I ended up …
Before I ended up getting professional help, I had tucked each incident under the rug.I would giggle a lot. Smile all the time to be sure no one knew. I spent 36 yrs coping the best I could. The experimental ‘probe therapy’ was the hardest thing which sometimes left me totally messed up for 3-5 days. But today I can say that therapy saved my life. PTSDs are real. Very real. The probes bring your senses right back to the moments/places. But once ‘out’ I was free.
Blocking out is …
Blocking out is like sweeping under a rug. Eventually you trip over it and have to remove the lump. After 36 yrs I can now say I’m free. My Dr did experimental probe therapy on me. Some were so difficult it left me in a psychological mess for 3-5 days. However, I am glad I did it. I went threw it. The probes bring you right back to the point of smelling the smells, and re-experiencing the event(s). Tough. But so worth it. Hope this helps.
Interesting trigger …
Interesting trigger. Mine is lack of choice. Even though I am not high strung, I’m sooo angry inside, yet no one knows it bc I am always laughing, giggling, smiling. But let me loose on a punching bag in the gym and whew! Another trigger is meanness. I cannot stand people being mean. Totally affects me. Complete withdrawal.
Perhaps not …
Perhaps not hereditary, but what about environmentally? Perhaps a parents self-being, like all parents, causes you to get a personality like theirs and you surrounded by abuse makes the likely hood of PTSD to exist even more so.
What is your view on that?