2006-07-24 08:35:31 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Get yourself into therapy!!!
2006-07-24 08:39:33 · answer #1 · answered by pfc_weiss 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
how long it lasts and what it takes to make it go away varies with different people.
I have had PTSD off and on for decades...
PTSD comes and goes in waves kinda like grief does when someone you love has died. the feelings wash over you and mess with the ability to enjoy ordinary safe activities.
Finding the right person(s) to talk to can help but some people find their own outlets... Art therapy is very helpful.
painting in the abstract and molding clay where you can let some anger out is the key to releasing the unbidden memories and neutralizing the interference they cause.
Journaling also helps allot. writing down the things that trouble you and letting the journal hold the pain so you can go out and live without carrying around the worst stuff has been a big help to me.
Many in the support group I went to encouraged this also.
Good luck.
Know you are not alone and that the shocks to the system that you have Lived Through are just that and you can have happier more peaceful times eventually.
PTSD can be controlled and or lived with and eventually managed.
2006-07-24 08:52:09 · answer #2 · answered by ??IMAGINE ?? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are different ways to cope with stress and PTSD is just one way we express having an overload of shocks to the system.
My husband is a Vietnam vet and he had it. when we met he told me stories of how when he first came back from his tour he was living with his best friend and the guys wife and that he slept in the closet for a few months because he felt safer there. Some men develop weapons fetishes and fixations and keep too many around and others go the other extreme of wanting NO weapons around to protect all from what he could do if a 'mood' hit.
My husband was one of the ones who wanted no weapons around for fear he might have a nightmare and act out while in half sleep.
He watched Apocalypse now a million times
2006-07-24 23:34:55 · answer #3 · answered by surfnsfree 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For most it does not go away without treatment or therapy. My father's didn't manifest itself till 9/11, he was in Vietnam. He's been f'd up ever since. PSTD need to process those thought right away, they don't go away.
2006-07-24 08:39:29 · answer #4 · answered by Jester 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I dont think you can actually get rid of it. With therapy you will get better but there no way to know if you will have another episode later in life. Get help for now. Good luck to you
2006-07-24 09:15:59 · answer #5 · answered by xadralix 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
PTSD, posttraumatic stress disorder, never goes away.
2006-07-24 08:38:50 · answer #6 · answered by dyorgey 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋