PTSD, the best ways to get help or deal with it
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- Every time I think about that stabbing in the alley way, I get all panicky and I get really scared, and it feels like, your the only one I can talk to about it.
- You should get out more, do some exercise, physical activities or even outdoor hobbies. It'll help your PTSD.
- I like to donate these clothes to your foundation. Make sure someone can benefit from this.
- Headspace states that a good strategy for dealing with PSTD is to talk to people you trust and feel comfortable conversing about the topic with. This can be friends, love ones, therapist, councilors or even GP. This can improve your ability to trust others again and the outside world while relieving and sharing the burden of your trauma with others.
- I suggest you take some antidepressants. It can help you manage your PTSD by bettering your mood.
- Because PTSD causes panic attacks, anxiety and low self esteem, it can often lead to negative views on life and depressive states of mind. Which is why both Headspace and Helpguide suggest those suffering from PTSD to take up a physical activity, as doing so releases endorphins which improves mood and outlook on life, which can help those suffering from the debilitating symptoms of PTSD.
- I rather not watch this. It reminds me to much of my trauma. I should switch the channel.
- PTSD can often lead to a sense of weakness and vulnerability caused by your trauma leaving you feeling powerless. A good way in managing PTSD, as supported by Helpguide and the personal experiences of Sane Australia, is to take charge of your life by challenging that sense of powerlessness by maybe donating blood or to your favorite charity, confronting your trauma realizing you can get through it or even cutting it out of your life forever. The sense of empowerment and control can really help those suffering manage their PTSD as the trauma will never truly go away, so you have to learn to confront to and be resilient in the face of it.
- We have to break up. I sorry but this relationship just doesn't work and it reminds me to much of my trauma.
- For serious cases of PTSD the use of prescribe medication can help as stated by both ReachOut and Mayo Clinic. This strategy of medication can help improve mood and your outlook on life and minimizing the amount of symptoms you have such as nightmares or re-living trauma.
- Headspace says as a management strategy you should try to avoid and choose which media you can't cope with and that which you enjoy respectively. This can reduce your contact with things that may cause panic attacks or extreme anxiety thus helping manage the effect PTSD has in your life.
- From the personal experiences of those on Sane Australia, and Reach Out, avoiding what causes your trauma can be a way of managing your PTSD which can be breaking up relationships and not participating in certain activates as examples of this avoidance strategy. But as outlined by Reach Out it can also be a symptom of PTSD meaning your avoidance should be dealt with if it borders upon unhealthy and unsocial behaviors.
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