PTSD Vietnam - Is There Still Time to Heal From the PTSD?
Time Is Your Friend If you have PTSD as a result of service in Vietnam, there is good news.
Time is your friend and their is time to get over the trauma.
Because of the way that PTSD is manifested, time away from the actual cause of the trauma is a turn in your favor, one of the only positive things one might say about the disorder.
It is said that time heals all wounds and to some extent that is true.
Because your mind experienced the trauma and took a snap shot, so to speak, of the situation as it happened, it remembers the intensity of the moment almost the same as it just happened.
Time will take away some of the edge to get things moving in the right direction for you, but the real healing begins when you are able to control the mind's perception even more than time has allowed on it's own.
Perception Is The Key Perception is the mind's mental recording of the events that led to the trauma, that one moment in time or multiple events over a particular span of time.
When we learn how to change the mind;s perception is when we begin to feel differently about the situation that caused the trauma.
It is inevitable that one will feel differently because of the way perception is created.
Your Subjective Experience Subjective experience is the individual way in which we see, or experience the world around us.
And because each experience is unique we all have our own "version" of reality.
Make sense? Because each subjective experience has a clearly defined structure (what makes it unique compared to another person's experience or view) it is easy to alter that structure and the direct result of that alteration is a difference in perception.
It is not optional.
The brain will automatically change the way it thinks about and remembers the event that caused the trauma.
Hope In Action "What action should I take?" you might ask.
Well, if you still suffer from PT SD, I would say do the opposite of what you have been doing.
If you have never talked about it because maybe you felt embarrassed or week when speaking your feelings, now is a good time to let someone help you carry the load of the burden you have shouldered alone for all this time.
Believe me when I tell you, it is a great relief when you tell someone else who cares about you and wants to help.
That is from first hand experience.
Other actions include educating yourself about PTSD and it's causes.
Searching for treatments you can work on on your own so as to avoid the nagging embarrassment that goes along with PTSD.
Or, you can simply look at it like this; if I do what I have always done about this problem, I will continue to get the same results.
New Techniques In the last two years there have been great developments in the treatment of PTSD and anxiety.
Take action and learn which one is right for you.
What do have to lose?
Time is your friend and their is time to get over the trauma.
Because of the way that PTSD is manifested, time away from the actual cause of the trauma is a turn in your favor, one of the only positive things one might say about the disorder.
It is said that time heals all wounds and to some extent that is true.
Because your mind experienced the trauma and took a snap shot, so to speak, of the situation as it happened, it remembers the intensity of the moment almost the same as it just happened.
Time will take away some of the edge to get things moving in the right direction for you, but the real healing begins when you are able to control the mind's perception even more than time has allowed on it's own.
Perception Is The Key Perception is the mind's mental recording of the events that led to the trauma, that one moment in time or multiple events over a particular span of time.
When we learn how to change the mind;s perception is when we begin to feel differently about the situation that caused the trauma.
It is inevitable that one will feel differently because of the way perception is created.
Your Subjective Experience Subjective experience is the individual way in which we see, or experience the world around us.
And because each experience is unique we all have our own "version" of reality.
Make sense? Because each subjective experience has a clearly defined structure (what makes it unique compared to another person's experience or view) it is easy to alter that structure and the direct result of that alteration is a difference in perception.
It is not optional.
The brain will automatically change the way it thinks about and remembers the event that caused the trauma.
Hope In Action "What action should I take?" you might ask.
Well, if you still suffer from PT SD, I would say do the opposite of what you have been doing.
If you have never talked about it because maybe you felt embarrassed or week when speaking your feelings, now is a good time to let someone help you carry the load of the burden you have shouldered alone for all this time.
Believe me when I tell you, it is a great relief when you tell someone else who cares about you and wants to help.
That is from first hand experience.
Other actions include educating yourself about PTSD and it's causes.
Searching for treatments you can work on on your own so as to avoid the nagging embarrassment that goes along with PTSD.
Or, you can simply look at it like this; if I do what I have always done about this problem, I will continue to get the same results.
New Techniques In the last two years there have been great developments in the treatment of PTSD and anxiety.
Take action and learn which one is right for you.
What do have to lose?
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