Comments on: Treating PTSD: The Joy of Positive Psychology http://healmyptsd.com/2009/11/treating-ptsd-the-joy-of-positive-psychology.html Support, education and information about Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Wed, 23 May 2012 07:43:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Treating PTSD: Do You Deserve Joy? | BRIDGE THE GAP Healing Workshop | Heal My PTSD, LLC - Your source for symptoms, causes, and treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder http://healmyptsd.com/2009/11/treating-ptsd-the-joy-of-positive-psychology.html/comment-page-1#comment-2411 Treating PTSD: Do You Deserve Joy? | BRIDGE THE GAP Healing Workshop | Heal My PTSD, LLC - Your source for symptoms, causes, and treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:54:55 +0000 http://healmyptsd.com/?p=4971#comment-2411 [...] up for a minute today because Svasti, in her yogic sort of wisdom, made a great comment on Monday’s post about joy and the PTSD experience. I wanted to share it with you and explore it a little [...] [...] up for a minute today because Svasti, in her yogic sort of wisdom, made a great comment on Monday’s post about joy and the PTSD experience. I wanted to share it with you and explore it a little [...]

]]> By: Svasti http://healmyptsd.com/2009/11/treating-ptsd-the-joy-of-positive-psychology.html/comment-page-1#comment-2399 Svasti Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:53:42 +0000 http://healmyptsd.com/?p=4971#comment-2399 I think it can be hard to feel joy for a long time when in the midst of PTSD. But then, when there's a possibility for joy, I think some of us have forgotten how! And then... there may be feelings of guilt that keep us from being okay with feeling joy. Or, we might be struggling with letting go of suffering. So joy can feel like a huge leap! So I think making joy a part of our healing can only happen once we've accepted we can heal, and have taken the first scary steps away from the relative safety of identifying with PTSD, I think its only then that joy makes sense. And then, yeah, its pretty wonderful to allow your body and mind to remember happiness like that. And very inspiring to keep going, too! I think it can be hard to feel joy for a long time when in the midst of PTSD. But then, when there’s a possibility for joy, I think some of us have forgotten how! And then… there may be feelings of guilt that keep us from being okay with feeling joy. Or, we might be struggling with letting go of suffering. So joy can feel like a huge leap!

So I think making joy a part of our healing can only happen once we’ve accepted we can heal, and have taken the first scary steps away from the relative safety of identifying with PTSD, I think its only then that joy makes sense.

And then, yeah, its pretty wonderful to allow your body and mind to remember happiness like that. And very inspiring to keep going, too!

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