Wotsitwifey,
I am glad to know that you have "temporary" relief.
To all others, I think it is a dangerous set up mentally to think any type of therapy is going to fully make you all better.
I had Dr. Uri Bergman, from Long Island ny, preform EMDR on me, (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing), a therapy that brings out memories. It gave me horrible wicked migraines for three days. I did it only nine times. I had to stop, I just have too many memories due to years and years of torture, and knew it was not going to help me at all. (although I believe it is a Godsend for anyone going through reoccurring flashbacks, I do not have these)
This was done in the nineties, and have recently spoke to him to see if there were any new techniques out there to help. He had said no, and that emdr was not good for me, that is was not the cure-all they were looking for. That it is a tool for those who need to move forward from certain types of trauma. He also said pretty much everyone has some form of ptsd, and it is useful for those that have not endured lengthy traumatic events.
Please everyone, take new techniques with a grain of salt, and not a huge pill that will make life perfect again.
I will always and forever look into new techniques that could apply to me, I have many different levels of problems, and if a new technique could help in anyone of them I will try it, again, with a grain of salt. But I refuse to put all my hopes and wishes into anything, because in the end I will have a huge set back and become more depressed then ever.
I allow the medical world to use my stacks and stacks of medical reports, I am an open book, in hopes someday somehow a cure will emerge for others, someday way down the road.
A scientist told my brother dying of Huntington's disease, to hold on a cure was coming in two years. He live with those words, like the biggest present in the world was definitely coming his way. I had to be the broken hearted soul to tell him it was not true. He believed those words, and made him even more fearful of death. I had to work hard to make him understand the ball is in God's court, not that scientists.
He died in 96', there still isn't a cure even close to being made.