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01-11-2006, 07:41 AM
|  | | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: T. Bay, Ontario Canada
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Originally Posted by Rick  It appears that a lynch pin to the diagnosis of PTSD here is that you suffered a traumatizing event which continues to haunt you (reliving experience, flashbacks, dreams etc.). If such an event occurred to me, I am not reliving it in flashbacks, dreams etc. and, as noted, I can't emotionally identify it.
So I don't know what to say. I feel a bit like someone who went to the support group, was warmly received (and thank you for that), but then slowly came to understand that he may have wandered in to the wrong session! :redface: |
Welcome Rick! It took me a long time to recognize flashbacks. I had no idea I had them until my second month of intenstive counelling! Flashbacks come in all forms: emotional, visual, audio. etc. I never knew that before. I was also unable to identify my emotions with anything. I didn't recognize half the symptoms, as I was shut down entirely. We all go through this differently and react in our own way. Not everyone get's flashbacks or recurring nightmares, some get them later, some earlier, some never. Yet, as Anthony said, PTSD is PTSD. You did not wander into the wrong session! As you learn more about PTSD and begin to work on healing from your trauma and managing your PTSD you will learn more and more. Have no fear, you are in the right place.
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04-11-2006, 05:06 AM
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Rick, we are a family of all types who come from all kinds of backgrounds. We are at different places in the healing journey. Some of us are past the worst of it, and some us haven't even started the healing process yet. Depending on where you are, the symptoms will be different.
Rick, do the best you can to describe your feelings. Just say what comes to you. More than likely, there will be someone who can either help clarify your feelings or can relate to your feelings. I hope you stick around in the "wrong" session and let us decide if you belong? We are not shy here of telling people that don't meet the requirements of ptsd, that they don't have PTSD. As Anthony has said, being diagnosed by two doctors means that more than likely you have it. | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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