Nope, I don't believe we can be. Once your brain is altered, how are they going to alter it back? On top of that. when I took EMDR I was told that was a "cure" also.. and look where that got me.

I believe we can learn how to live healthy and adjust to how we need to live thereby having a better quality of life. Good enough for me.

bec

I am still on the fence. Hope maybe? I have not voted since being here and the poll still waits for my answer above. I just cannot let go that I may be better one day. This one I may be on the fence about for a long time as I feel if I vote a certain no I may lose hope trying.

I take a life with PTSD as a fight, and I do beleive, that someday I will win.

Early on I believed that it was possible to be cured from complex PTSD. As I get older I am understanding that learning to live well with myself and my quirks is more realistic. That through life long learning I can continue to make this work with and for me.

At the point I'm at I don't believe there is a cure and no longer search for one. I just try to accept that this is the person I am and learn how to make it more part of my life, turning nightmares into novels and artwork instead of letting them control me and the like. I've been classed as permanently disabled for nearly 15 years now and I fought it for a time, trying to prove that I could be something more, but now I realize that this is the person I am if the longer I fight it the longer it is going to take me to get better. No cure, just acceptance...

jaa ne

Kat

I wish PTSD has a cure but like eating disorders, it doesn't. I try to be reminded of how people survived the Great Depression or the Holocaust. It changed the survivors. I hope someday I can say what many of them have. That great trial and tribulation changed us but also made us wiser. "We are survivors". I'm not there yet. I really want to be.

There may be one cure for PTSD. Prevention. Though its very specific. Its something I've been thinking about. It doesn't cure it after the fact, but I do wonder about preventing trauma if when - if at all possible. There seems to be a moral in there somewhere. I know there is no way of knowing when something terrible will happen but I go back and think about what I could have done different and try very hard to apply that in the hereafter. Like I said, its something I've been thinking about. Though not actually practical.


In the meanwhile, I'd like it very much if there was a cure for PTSD. I really do.

I don't think its a matter of a "cure" or being healed. Its a matter of learning how to cope and live with it each and every day of your life in a healthy way (as much as possible).

I remember hearing a few news clips about erasing memories - new treatments. I always wondered why. I wouldn't want to lose my memories because it is where I am today that counts and it is a good place (I think those memories are important and I appreciate what I have now because of what I have been through).

Now, if they could erase the PTSD....I'd sign up for that.

I've chosen to believe it can be, because I think that perspective will serve me best in the long run. I want to believe it can be. I think the reality of my experience is that it will fade from the foreground the background, and could emerge again when I'm stressed.

At this point, I have to say, 'no'.

Now, this may be because my gig is CPTSD - and the trauma started when my brain was still developing (4-5 years old). My whole survival hard-wiring is toward hyperarousal, etc. Like many here, I was previously mislabeled and misdiagnosed several times, so proper treatment was really a crap shoot.

If the PTSD were from, say, a car accident 4 months ago, I would probably believe otherwise. I would have a "before" me to know what I was trying to get back to - I would have some sense of what normalcy looked/felt like.
I've been reading a lot about PTSD recently, trying to finally come to terms with this dx, and it would seem that trauma which has its origin in "human design" is much more difficult to recover from, whether or not it is is single or multiple event, and occurred later in life. So, recovery from PTSD resulting from a car accident or a tornado - yeah. Torture, abuse, war? I just don't think so.

I do believe, having had good results from a form of CBT that I've been working with (for 2+ years now), that I can recover to a degree. I don't believe I'm fated to constant hyperarousal, paranoia, fear, hypervigilance, strange fears, etc, forever.

I'm coming to see it more as a condition, kind of like a less-lethal cancer or something: untreated, it is insidious and deadly - destroying quality of life, with a high mortality rate. However, with proper treatment, I can live well, provided I continue with treatment. I can even go into remission. But it will never be completely gone. Even with the idea of neuro-plasticity....hmm...I just don't think complete eradication of this thing is possible anymore.

-Dylan

It would be nice, if there was a cure, but I voted no, as I believe that one won't ever be found.

I do believe like some/most on here that if I can heal to a sufficient degree, I can still lead a productive, though changed, life.