Meandering Michele’s Mind: 10 Things to Know About Healing PTSD
Thursday, September 17th, 2009 • Uncategorized •
In raising awareness for the idea of invisible illness – its real existence, face, sound, battle, symptoms and signs – it would be wrong not to take the time to raise awareness about another aspect of it: the healing part.
Of all the invisible illnesses PTSD is one of the only ones that sufferers will be told:
- Get over it.
- Let it go.
- You could heal if you wanted to.
- It’s all in your head.
- You’re the only one.
- You’re doing this to yourself.
Tough enough to try recovery when there’s such a lack of empathy about the struggle. If our problems were physical we’d get more support. Or would we? In my own PTSD experience I had bone, liver, intestine and stomach problems. Real, scientifically verifiable, test result qualified symptoms. And yet, no doctor could diagnose what was wrong. Not one single MD in Manhattan caught on to what my mind was doing to my body.
Feeling isolated and alone and outside the realm of care can make the PTSD experience even more terrifying and grueling.
Today, a few important notes about PTSD healing in the midst of the chaos:
1. Healing takes time.
2. Healing is not a straight path.
3. Healing is cumulative; everything you do gets you to the next place.
4. The healing journey is different and individual for each survivor.
5. You will fail.
6. You will succeed.
7. You will fail again.
8. If you keep working at it, being flexible, trying new things, reaching out, researching, committing to your intention you will make progress.
9. Sometimes it doesn’t seem like progress is being made. You can’t see air either but it is all around you.
10. Desire is the crux of healing. If you want it - if you remove any conscious and unconscious barriers you have - you will attain healing in the end.
Believe in yourself. You’re not crazy. You can heal. Fight the force against you.
Summon all your strength – and then a little more than that - and WIN.
Tags: desire, healing, Healing and Overcoming PTSD, invisible illness, Meandering Michele's Mind, ptsd, symptoms
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@Acorn — Because sometimes you just need to know you aren’t crazy that you don’t heal all in one day!
THIS IS THE BEST POST I HAVE READ… You are so right on with all of it and thank you for saying we will fail but we will suceed that is importan so if you do fail you dont just lay down and quite. this road is long and has lots of curves in it. and the first part of people telling you its in the past get over it. its not in the past its right in front of you every day. But I am still here and I WILL WIN.. and make it this webpage has helped me so much as far as to say I no longer want to take my life. I want to find my life
@Lorrie – “I want to … ” with a positive action attached is the greatest thing a survivor can say. That phrase is the crux of healing. In PTSD we forget what we want. When we become curious about what it is we desire for and with and in our lives – and when we use that desire to energize our actions – that’s when healing really picks up speed. Onward!