Look, I thought the same thing when I was in the initial stages... wondering if my life was going to be a constant mess. For years I had to constantly fight myself from driving into a pole at high speed, or killing myself at any opportunity just so I didn't have to go through this my entire life. Then I did the PTSD course, where I learnt a hell of lot more information and tools from experts in the field, had some very shitty months after that, better for many months, triggered it again returning to Townsville, now better again and learnt another valuable lesson... don't return to Townsville.
Here's a big piece of advice for everyone with PTSD. There are three main types of people with PTSD:
- Those who deny they have it, or it affects them;
- Those who become workaholics, alcoholics, drugs, highly reliant on medications, etc to suppress it, but they know they have it;
- Those who accept it, embrace it, work with it and not against it, and learn to control the symptoms and their lifestyle to suit it.
One and two will never see the other side of PTSD unti they change their thinking, lifestyle and attitude towards PTSD. Three is the only one that will ever see the other side of PTSD, back to some sort of normality. I know just from reading here, that most fall into #1 or #2, and a couple of people here are #3, myself included.
This all just reminded me of a very important piece of information I need to post here about the core root of
PTSD triggers for symptoms. I will start a new thread on that one though.
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