Posted by bulldog2 on January 18, 2010, at 9:03:58
In reply to Re: Blueaberry Please come back » bulldog2, posted by KaylaBear on January 17, 2010, at 20:13:34
> Bulldog, I am giving up on the medication merry go round. You can google C-PTSD or PTSD and medication key words on google scholar, and studies will show up as they do differentiate some medications for ptsd from what I recall.
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> This sort of sums up what I'm working on:
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> http://www.objectrelations.org/stages.htm
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> This takes a long time. Its much cheaper to just medicate people. But I suppose some people would prefer medications only. Its really unfortunate that many do not have the choice. Psychotherapy is very expensive, especially if you go weekly, which is often necessary.
>I had a lot of standard talk therapy as a young man and had a lot of ahha moments. No particular style of psychotherapy other than talk and discuss. Really it did give me an understanding but no real changes in my behavior. Just more knowledgable about what was going on and suggestions about realizing old thought patterns were toxic and time to birng in new ones. As I said eventually no real changes occurred.
Tried CBT and found that fluff.
Now this doc you have links to has more of an action plan than others who put their feet up on the desk as they droned on. Really can't afford this any more. Once a week at $180..Just can't do it. The ones covered by my insurance really suck. One p-doc wanted take my case as He said I was to complicated.
But I Understand what you are saying about the med merry go round.
I will read the links and see what they say. Kayla you have to understand that children who were really battered emotionally will have a hard time doing it on talk therapy. The brain has been so altered it will be very difficult to override the old thought patterns.My current p-doc has an interesting theory. Just accept who you are with your limitations. Sometimes accepting your limitations gets that superego to relax and give you a better quality of life. Is that what the doc in the links is saying?
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