Hi Shoshin,

I understand what you could interpret, but that is not my generalization here. I am not generalizing about therapists, I am making a specific point to the one member who made a statement that suddenly now they are qualifying as a therapist, everything done here is suddenly wrong. I read that statements immediately as; what the hell would you know what your doing as I am more qualified than you! Well, yes... spirit would be more qualified than me, cannot disagree with that. I do not hide behind not being qualified either... though it does provide some work arounds legally, ask any barrister on that one.

Spirit is suddenly changing her attitude. She has nearly 500 posts and just now nearing the end of her training she decides that everything I do here is wrong. I don't think so. Again, the ACPMH has suddenly adopted fear based trauma and exposure therapy as the first and foremost line of attack towards a sufferer of PTSD or ASD. Why? Because it is proving to be the most valuable, reliable and workable treatment method in helping those who suffer that. I and others here are walking proof of that. I have over 50 soldiers here in Australia who I have dealt with who all succeeded under the exact same technique. Professionals are adopting this towards such trauma based approaches, instead of the conventional sympathetic viewpoint that therapists often provide. The nurturing approach that works on families, individual self counselling, etc.... just doesn't work in trauma therapy. It is now becoming proven fact, with sufferers of PTSD and ASD spending a decade or more in therapy, when therapy should last no longer than 12 months, maximum time frame.

Whilst not blaming therapists for not understanding PTSD itself, because they simply couldn't unless they suffer it, their approach is now being proven as wrong with trauma, and now having to shift towards fear based trauma therapy and fear based exposure therapy, to really push a sufferer out of the mould they have fit within.

Therapist are required globally, I do not discount them for what they do... but I will say and have always stated, they are wrong when it comes to dealing with abnormal trauma, trauma in general. My own knowledge and findings are now becoming known and used in the mental health realms. Whether they got it from online communities such as this, trials and experience, doesn't matter... what matters is that therapists and physicians have been approaching it all wrong. Change is now on its way.

Any education within an academic model is floored... I challenge anyone to prove it wrong. Even doctors... they are taught are basic method, though they learn the more realistic and productive methods of doctoring through experience on the job, not through essays or what the professors personal opinions are on the topic.

Anyone who educates is smart in my mind... I educate myself constantly... it only improves who I am. Schooling though, lets face it, it is one sided. Schooling offers the ability to debate a topic, though end of the day it comes down to the teacher, how broad or narrow focused they are on any given subject. End result... they are the one's who pass or fail you, so you conform to what they want in order to qualify. That is my standing on schooling itself. Education is required... the more you educate yourself the better, which encompasses theory and practice, not just one or the other.

It is like a builder vs. engineer. Engineers understand the mechanics, theories and principles behind what makes a building stand, last during storms and what ever else mother nature has to throw its way; though the engineer if asked to go build the building with their hands, would have no idea. Vice versa, the builder can build and follow the engineers principles, though has no real idea on why some things are as they are... they just follow the plans. If asked to design a building then build it, the builders building would likely fall down because they would have missed a specific theoretical aspect of physics or the like that helps the building stand stable.

Both are required.... one or the other leaves a person quite inexperienced in a given subject in realistic terms. This is why projects work in teams, because one person cannot do everything... well aware and understand this principle. This is why I stay to trauma.... I have learnt extreme amounts of theory behind trauma, principles and techniques, though have the direct experience by having it and having tested the very principles that professionals are now adopting themselves... because they work.

Again, nothing against academia... just making a statement about how one member wanted to hide behind it as a sudden change in their own personal attitude.