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View Poll Results: Do You See an End to the Symptoms in Your Life?
Yes 17 16.67%
No 85 83.33%
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Old 10-03-2007, 07:31 AM
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No...I do not see and end to the symptoms. I have tried the counselling they offer were I live. I am hidden away in a room in the back and my treatment is listen to my cousellor read from a book about anxiety. If that is the only treatment I can get, I am better off without it. I was made to feel like a freak at my counselling sessions. Like I had some disease they didn't want others to know about. If that's the treatment for PTSD, then I will be like this forever.
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I think the PTSD will always be with me, but hopefully in a weakened form.

I have great hope that eventually I will sleep through the night, that I will stop having flashbacks, that I will stop the related self-harm. I want to hope that I will eventually become a generally less anxious person.

But the hypervigilance and startling are so ingrained in me, I don't think they'll ever be gone. They spent too many years being programmed.
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i have little hope that ptsd will end. i am learning how to deal with it, but i know this is part of me for ever.
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I currently feel very overwhelmed and do not see an end to the symptoms in my life. However, I do hope that with continued therapy I will find at least some relief.
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I see this is an old thread, but I'll add my 2 cents anyway. No...I don't believe there will ever be a time when I'm completely unafraid. But I sure hope to high heaven I'll be less jumpy some time soon. So, I'm going to get better someday, but 'cured'? I doubt it. Maybe in 20 years or so if they invent a cure...but who wants to spend 20 years waiting?
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I have to believe I can overcome this. If only by sheer willpower, I WILL ******* SURVIVE!!!
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Yes, I do see an end to PTSD symptoms in my life. Though this end to my PTSD symptoms is yet to arrive, I must say not only do I believe that there is an end to them, I can also imagine and therefore see its end. I believe that there is available, a greatly enriched life after trauma and that with it, I will experience many manageable deep feelings, continuing grace and many joys and passions yet to come.

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I'm told there is no cure, but I don't believe it.

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No I dont think so but hopefully,I can make some positive impact in life rather than just wasting away. Maybe we should start a PTSD awareness revolution.
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Seeing my older sister battle her daily demons (and she too suffered the same childhood abuse as I), I voted that I don't see any end in sight.

I keep asking my doctor if I will ever get better, and be cured. He basically tells me that I will learn to live with my past, and should be content with that life. I don't see it happening any too soon.

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