Treating PTSD: 10 Clues You’re Your Own Worst Enemy
Friday, July 31st, 2009 • Uncategorized •
We’re at the end of the sixth month of the BRIDGE THE GAP HEALING WORKSHOP which means after today I will not beat you over the head about your perceptions. (Well, maybe I’ll reference them once in a while!).
Just because I don’t chatter on about it doesn’t mean changing your unhealthy perceptions is any less important. It’s up to you to keep paying attention to the things we covered, including:
- 4 Tips for Changing Perceptions
- the importance of thought monitoring
- good decisions vs. bad decisions
- meeting your mind
- how you talk to yourself
- how you see yourself
- the importance of becoming your own hero
Today, the perceptual focus ends with one final teaser. The following list should tip you off that the way you are thinking of and seeing things is not helping you heal.
10 clues your perceptions are self-defeating:
- If you’re writing to me saying you can’t possibly do what I did
- If you see yourself as ‘forever damaged’
- If you look at me and think you’re not as strong as I am
- If you see yourself as a victim
- If you don’t see yourself as a hero
- If you feel like things are hopeless
- If you feel like you have to accept PTSD as your permanent state
- If you hear a voice in your head saying, I can’t, I don’t, I won’t
- If you hear someone else’s voice in your head saying, You can’t, You don’t, You won’t
- If you feel you don’t deserve a life better than the one you’re living
Recognize any of those clues? You can change them. All you have to do is make the decision to develop some new perceptions.
Tags: Changing Unhealthy Perceptions, healing, perceptions, ptsd, treat
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I have had PTSD for ten years. And perception is huge for recovery. I dealt with my pain masking my reality with phobias. And I am starting to get out of this jam thank god. This has been a life saver for me.
@Brent — Whoo-hoo! Starting to get out (and being as conscious as you are by seeing what you’re doing that keeps you in) is a terrific place to be. Very exciting. I feel the energy of your posttraumatic growth buzzing right here on this page.