Posted by delna on September 12, 2005, at 9:25:59
My friend just got married and her husband has started battering her to the point where she was clinically dead for a few minutes. She inists on going back to him even though he is aggressive. She has her friends/family's support to leave him and all the pychotherapy there is. Plus she has no financial reasons for her to stay on. Everyone is scared for her life and health.
She mentioned that post her first battering, she was told by a therapist that she has PTSD. However she never saw a psychiatrist or was never treated with medication. Just talking therapy.
I spoke to her at length and she is very irrational so I asked what her therapist said about her PTSD and she said it 'had gone away'.
I think she is not well and needs to diagnosed and possibly medicated by a psychiatrist. But I am told that not all issues require drugs and not everyone is 'mentally ill'. Doesn't such an incident require medical help?
Where do you draw the line with drugs? I know people are given antidepressants after natural diasters..PTSD doesnt just vanish does it?
Very worried....
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