Posted by bertie on October 23, 2003, at 1:09:22
In reply to Re: PTSD and drug withdrawals » bertie, posted by Sebastian on October 21, 2003, at 21:27:02
Sebastian, i feel for your pain, really. I've heard miraculous stories about the effectiveness of EMDR. I, too, have had less than truly productive experience with psychoanalysis/counseling in the past. Nothing negative, just nothing especially helpful. And of course the medication route has not gone well for me. But by all accounts, EMDR seems to be the best hope for sufferers of PTSD. I have two traumas, the childhood experience and a rape when I was 20 years old at a bus stop, and my experiences with childbirth might qualify as traumatic too, since the pain was horrific and I nearly died. So there's a lot of baggage there, i guess, that needs to be dealt with one way or another. Maybe the answers lie within us, and not in the medical community. There has to be abetter way. Sorry so longwinded, must go.
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