Hi! I am new here. I have made a decision to try to network with, or at least communicte with, other people who are attempting to heal from complex PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), because I am on that path, and I have had a hard time finding people who are making any headway at all in the process of healing. Is there anybody here who would like to discuss this? My only real success in the healing process has been the spiritual aspect of my life, namely learning how to forgive and release the traumas and the people who caused them. Anybody with similar experiences? I would really like to hear from you.
Are you a VETERAN? What caused this event/s to become traumatic. Have you had bodily harm done you? Explaine.
I USED to have PTSD. Thatnks to treatment with various hallucinogens I have diminished it to a point where it is almost non-existant. Specifically MDMA and MDA. PM me if you hva any questions at all. Ill be glad to help. BTW I am a veteran.
i have complex ptsd too. hallucinogens to my knowelage make complex ptsd worst. there are a few studies that hallucinogens might (and, i stress the word MIGHT) help some people who have simple ptsd. complex ptsd is almost always caused by child abuse, and in a few cases imprisonment. i was abused to and, it is one hell of a long, long, long god damm road back to personhood! i cannot recommend highly enough "the anxiety & phobia workbook, fourth edition,' by edmund j. bourne, ph.d. get it at the library; if they don't have it ask, them to order it for you by inter-library loan. i'm quite sure after you read it over you will want to get your own copy. i have bought each edition of this book over the years. it has been that helpful too me and others with ptsd too! i'm need to stop now and, get some sleep. i'm starting to go to sleep while i'm typing. see you all later.
I recently found that if I dont express and tell of the shit I feel may have been trauma, then I get worse. Things I did, experienced ect. Over time not letting others know of whats troubling me, what I saw just eats me up and I explode on my friends and family. This happpened recently, I have been to Iraq and other areas of that region 4 times. I wasnt going to support group, only doing my job and trying to live a normal life again. But I cant let go of the shit unless I talk to others about it. Really I need trained professional help and PPL in groups that have been through what I have. Not that others dont help too.. But When I quit going now for over a year I just may have ruined the only realtionship Ive had long term since i dont know when.. I think that LSD and Shrooms have helped me but others around me (gf) seems like she wants me to be all pissed off and stressed. The only way I can deal with the ptsd is anger instead of tripping cause nobody (gf) isnt. So hallucinogens might be due to situations and places and people around you before it can work properly. Not 100% sure its helped me since the person I loved isnt a party person.. And only made me stuff more shit and not let it go and laugh. IDK..
My father has simple PTSD (he's a veteran). I would say that my experiences with Salvia (it's legal in all but 5 states in America and in most other countries) have helped me deal with things I've locked away. Even though I don't have PTSD from what I've seen in my father and his recovery efforts (though I would never suggest it to him as he is very close minded) getting things out is a good thing. Now, whether or not you would be ready for those things when they did come out is another issue entirely. You might find that they are too much to handle and being in the middle of a trip is not the place to be if you're overwhelmed by fearful repressed feelings. But regardless I think that psychoactive plants in general are the way to go if you're looking to sort things out rather than just medicate. There are many legal options that can be quite effective.
I used to / still have PTSD, it used to be very severe to the point where most of the day, I couldn't even remember my phone number or do simple math quickly (and I'm NOT 'slow')...I had to go to an inpatient trauma unit for a month to even begin to deal with the trauma. I don't believe that it would be mentally healthy to revisit the trauma with drugs first - if you haven't dealt with it or been able to speak about it in detail, haven't allowed yourself to grieve, etc...things could go downhill.
I still struggle with PTSD due to my near death birthing experience with my twins. They're 5 years old now, but I still get flashbacks and vivid nightmares that I'm in the labor and delivery room dying on the table, the feeling I had then, the just "knowing" something wasn't right, how I grabbed on of the nurse's hands, crying, "Please, I don't want to die!". That, and any type of really shaky movements (such as, one of my kids will repeatedly start bouncing on the couch next to me) make me panic due to the grand mal seizures I experienced in the ICU that I was supposedly unconscious through, but the shakey movement seems to trigger some faint memory somewhere of the seizures and I start to fear that I'm going to have another one. Anyway. The PTSD has defnitely improved over the years, but it still flares up from time to time.
