tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27072566.post5709734907563615649..comments2024-03-14T03:16:23.482-05:00Comments on Everyone Needs Therapy: Acute and Post-Traumatic Stresstherapydochttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05088184676439578876noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27072566.post-60188601665969761682011-03-19T14:40:13.732-05:002011-03-19T14:40:13.732-05:00good experience... i am still in Clark ship n medi...good experience... i am still in Clark ship n medical student. Hope your experience give me inspiration and more social knowledge before i am going to be a doctor.Rachmawatyhttp://www.amhathalib.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27072566.post-53804550738557910172011-03-12T05:11:23.577-06:002011-03-12T05:11:23.577-06:00I suffer from chronic PTSD and for me talking is v...I suffer from chronic PTSD and for me talking is very very difficult and slow and often has the opposite affect that I get worse.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03104395523269130320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27072566.post-25725033530771078072009-09-26T09:41:36.230-05:002009-09-26T09:41:36.230-05:00Still love finding old posts on such interesting t...Still love finding old posts on such interesting topics.<br />In my case, you'd have to tell the lawyer - "Well, it happened in 1982, and she suffered in silence since then, so how much time do you think is fair?"<br />The Dr. Judith Herman book "Trauma and Recovery..." has given me so much understanding of the vastness of trauma. I know that I'm imprinted for life, but the print will fade.<br />I can celebrate my survival, my thriving in spite of it.<br />:-)Ellanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27072566.post-29720840857807662782007-01-04T21:51:00.000-06:002007-01-04T21:51:00.000-06:00A resident expert sent me the following email (tha...A resident expert sent me the following email (thanks Mi):<br /><br /><em>There's a study published in Israel after the first Scud missiles landed in Tel Aviv in the '80's. (Figure some social workers were right there, coming up with study ideas as the Scuds were falling). <br /><br />Anyway, one missile landed on a senior building in Tel Aviv and the residents were totally freaked. (One was killed.) <br /><br />The data showed higher anxiety levels and renewed PTSD as compared to a control group of non-Holocaust-Survivors. In general, data on Holocaust-Survivors showed strong efforts in acclimating to their new surroundings but lots of pathology, as would also be expected. <br /><br />However, does the data really show this or do we find data to prove what we think? You gotta' think that anyone interested in this topic has a vested interest in it - most likely is a survivor-family child or whatever. Who else cares? <br /><br />Now, based on life and everything else I know, I would think that therapy would reduce the pathology, being PTSD or anything else. The more you talk it through, the more you can revise and fix things. Holocaust-Survivers had no therapy, no one to help them through trauma except other survivors. When asked, they will tell you that no one understands what they went through except someone who went through it also. And since each experience was so different, they essentially survived by themselves. That's why aging is so darn challenging- who else experienced anything like they are going through? <br /><br />Finally, I think people adapt to trauma the way they adapt to life in general. If they have good coping skills, they will cope with trauma, too. If they have less-then-helpful coping skills, they will have less-than helpful skills to cope with trauma. I don't think it matters if the trauma was last week or thirty years ago. Although, after therapy, a survivor of trauma of thirty years ago might wonder why the heck he didn't go for treatment sooner! </em><br /><br />I'd have to read the study to check it's validity, but assuming you're correct, that survivors don't get treatment, then it's likely they are very sensitive to re-traumatization. <br /><br />I can't imagine fending off that much anxiety. Thanks for sharing!therapydochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05088184676439578876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27072566.post-12219444625599273442007-01-04T07:17:00.000-06:002007-01-04T07:17:00.000-06:00It's multivariate and much depends upon a person's...It's multivariate and much depends upon a person's family/social experience and psychological development prior to trauma, and adaptation varies also post-trauma depending upon the trauma itself. The PTSD can't possibly resolve over night. <br /><br />AND personality, as you suspect, does change over the course of long-term trauma as does world view. <br /><br />The diagnoses we have for both Axes I and II (although again, generalizing with this population will get you into trouble)include: borderline disorder or features, anxiety and depressive disorders, PTSD, paranoia, sexual dysfunction, schizo-affective, schizo-typal, social phobia, and more. Treatment is very difficult due to the intensity of the trauma and longevity.<br /><br />The brain changes slowly, for better or for worse, and there's certainly reason to think that without treatment, as a survivor ages, symptoms and disorders only get worse. Personality gets more exaggerated, not better.<br /><br />Yet, we people out there like Tante Tela (read the post on Yom Kippor under "holidays").<br /><br />Am open to comments here. <br /><br />Thanks for a great question, Elizabeth, <br /><br />Lindatherapydochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05088184676439578876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27072566.post-36635913849703539572007-01-04T02:20:00.000-06:002007-01-04T02:20:00.000-06:00How does PTSD related to incidents which occur ove...How does PTSD related to incidents which occur over a long enough period to create new behavior - such as long term torture, concentration camps, prostitution against one's will and such - Is therapy effective in resolving or only lessening in such cases?Elizabeth McClunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03627373214555333537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27072566.post-9565302026911231762006-12-30T17:11:00.001-06:002006-12-30T17:11:00.001-06:00Your welcome, George and Deb.Your welcome, George and Deb.therapydochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05088184676439578876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27072566.post-6034650722397501772006-12-30T17:11:00.000-06:002006-12-30T17:11:00.000-06:00To Mark: Nah. Nobody likes PTSD and truthfully? ...To Mark: Nah. Nobody likes PTSD and truthfully? As long as someone wants to come to therapy we don't say, oh, you're all better, what are you doing here, anyway? If ever there was a place to get attention, therapy's that place. So resolving a disorder doesn't jeopardize a therapeutic relationship. <br /><br />Of course, with HMO and PPO medicine, insurance will not cover therapy that is not considered "medically necessary."therapydochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05088184676439578876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27072566.post-35668941866098438662006-12-29T18:32:00.000-06:002006-12-29T18:32:00.000-06:00Dear Doc, thanks,....even George said thanks.Dear Doc, thanks,....even George said thanks.bjurstromhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04075698121876121820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27072566.post-81583207103559629262006-12-29T16:31:00.000-06:002006-12-29T16:31:00.000-06:00Good to know and very interesting. Question, do yo...Good to know and very interesting. Question, do you find that these disorders sometimes last longer than expected or excellerate because the person in therapy begins to enjoy the attention?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com