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Originally Posted by batgirl  Well you won't be who you were before the trauma, but I know you can get better and manage your PTSD, if you work hard enough on yourself. At least I'm hoping that's true! |
I think I share your viewpoint here, Evie. Life pre-PTSD is gone. I believe, having struggled with PTSD since at least 13/14, that really I will never ever be 'cured' or 'PTSD free'. In a funny kind of way, I have to accept it as a part of me, who I am now. Though I don't know if I really believe it is a part of me, or something stuck to me... But I think to be 'PTSD free', I'd have to have total retrograde amnesia. As long as I remember my past, I will remember my traumas and my traumas give me PTSD. I do think I can get to a point where it is manageable to a point where I could be, for the most part, normally functioning. But I don't know to what extent I can achieve that.
Really, I just accept that for the rest of my life, there will be times where PTSD symptoms fluctuate, get worse, get better and the task now is to deal with the trauma and then to keep effects of PTSD at bay as much as possible.