Mystic, that is an interesting quote actually off mine. I guess in my words, what I am really saying though, is therapists are not actual idiots as such, but they don't have a clue what to do with PTSD. They are often very theory based, contextual type therapies, with very little real world experience or knowledge.

As you now know, book smarts are not going to do much for you in regard to counselling PTSD, or anything really, unless you have walked the path, or a similar path, where you can apply practical experience around the theoretical model. 90% of therapists just don't get this, and they think they know how to fix someone just from reading a book... it just doesn't work.

I must say though, I actually shouldn't have used "idiots", more "lack practical experience", because they are not realistically idiots... just blinded by theory and educators, opposed to real world experience.

My doctor once said to me, that he stopped reading long ago about the theoretical models of PTSD. He kept updated on anything off real relevance to him, otherwise discarded all the shit and he learnt from his patients how to help each of them, very similiar to what occurs here really, where we learn from each other and what works for one, may work for another, but then not the next person, or next... and so on.

I read all the BS that authors put out about PTSD, and let me say, that I can take 100 pages of reading and summate it in one page of solid information that fits commonsense and practical experience. The rest was merely a waste of my time, and if I even thought about taking up some of the things they state, I would still be a walking mess. Why? Therapists have rules, this forum doesn't in regard to healing. Therapists have legal liability, this forum doesn't, because we don't charge money nor pretend we are therapists, merely sufferers sharing their experience to hit the core root of PTSD and kick it in the arse. Hopefully others will take the experience known here from walking the path, adopt what is useful to them, and heal... share what they have done differently, so maybe another can use their experience, and so forth. This place is highly based on experience, which is loosely based around theoretical applications.