Hi Anthony

As a PTSD sufferer and someone who's serious about surviving this I have become quite selective about who I entrust my mental health too. You've done a great thing by starting up this forum and there's a lot of wonderful people to talk to but I was wondering about you?

I notice that you're the only moderator and, while you provide good advice, I can't help being curious about your background/experience with PTSD. I may have missed a post were you talk about this but it'd be good if you could share a little

Actually, PTSD'd (love that name!) there are quite a few mods around! We just come on when we can.. as for the rest Anthony can answer that!

bec

Thanks Bec.

Hi,

My background / experience is written in numerous places around this forum if you want to search for it. Basically, I am not a physician, nor even related to the mental health industry. I learnt the hard way of going through the industry, through medications, etc etc, what worked and what did not. I got into a PTSD course some years back where I learnt that I got more from talking with others who had PTSD than I got from any specialist trying to tell me just theory on any aspect of PTSD / managing it.

I then tried things myself, they worked. I then helped a few friends of mine by shareing what I learnt with them, it worked. Nothing that is new, nothing that is really different, I just removed the bullshit fed to us by doctors who only care about the bottom line dollar figure, I removed the nonsense that therapists go on about, careing and concern, none of which works for a PTSD sufferer. I learnt what a counsellor learns, I have self educated myself on many aspects basically.

Yeah - I agree with you about the counsellor thing - I've been to many and they all harp on about caring, warm fuzzy stuff. I guess it took me 10 years to see a psych - wish I'd done it sooner.

Thanks for sharing that Anthony.