I can see the positives of receiving a diagnoses of PTSD. It gives each person a point of reference concerning why they have felt and behaved in certain ways. It gives each person an understanding of how their mind and body have acted in response to their life experiences.

I feel it is negative to believe that you are never free of PTSD, even if that is described as managing it (I will always manage my life, just as anyone does). It does not feel like that for me and I have probably only been working on myself for 2 years (a year of self-therapy-starting to live in the world, asking myself pertinent questions, looking for answers, and a year of actual therapy, CBT and most recently intergrative psychotherpay, and acceptance of how I have been affected). However, I still feel that my behaviours and feelings have ultimately been directed by my traumas and neglect as a child and young adult.

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