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Old 26-01-2008, 04:32 AM
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There is an unfortunate truth, the Doctors, therapists who do the work and cure patients do not have time to write up their research. I doubt there will ever be a magic cure to PTSD, but a process of intertwined techniques are working. Diet, stopping caffeine, CBT therapy such as what is found in the feeing good handbook, a very painful exposure therapy, exposing yourself to both your triggers and your traumas, adding in benifets such as group therapy, possibly psychodrama,, as well as adding in Eastern Philosophy of mindfullness. Also using medication to help control the symptoms until you have properly done the exposure work. every doctor I have encountered since I started my treatment, have all said this is how you cure PtSD

If you were to enter a private forum for sufferers of sexual abuse, rape, you would find a lot of people suffering from PTSD, however look on the bookshelves, talk to the survivors, they have overcome this, and on a forum if you said that they wouldn't be cured, there would be a huge out roar against you.

In North America we are looking for the quick fix, the magic pill. We look at studies such as emdr therapy, but unfortunately no one is doing studies on a combined look at all the treatments being used together. Will one treatment ever come about that cures PTSD I don't know.

And I am sorry Anthony, but if I do not believe this i will not be cured. We can only rise as high as our greatest expectations.

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