• WeirdWorld said on Jun 21, 2006....

  Hi, i read your comment and i didnt understand the reason for your depression. But a saw a tag PTSD, i dont know what it is but i did search on the net and find a site which is supposed to help you cope with it ||{1}|| i hope it helps you.

• CYNDIITA said on Jun 22, 2006....

  Thank you very much for the time it probabley took you to find this. Some of this stuff is helpful. PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) to put it short is when the brain reinacts particular events over and over. It can happen to any one after a tramatic event some people get over it very easy while others(me) can't seem to get it to go away. I have temperary helps which include writing and keeping busy. I feel it will pass. but with a great deal of time since my "trauma" happened over a span of 8 years. again thank you

• Root said on Aug 12, 2006....

  Sorry to hear you are suffering, Cyndiita. There is help out there. I am still working on healing from mine, and part of surviving is learning that... you can get some closure, and think all is well, and then BAM, TRIGGER, and you're back on what feels like page one. But with the right cognitive re-training of your brain, you start to learn how to climb back out of the hole quicker, and sometimes even to notice it on the dark path in front of you and avoid falling all the way in. I used Zoloft a lot in the first couple of years after talk therapy did nothing but make me crazy. It gave me some relief, especially when I was in a crisis mode and had to function to take care of others. Then, even though a book fell off the shelf, telling me about EMDR, it took another 4 or 5 or so years of living and reliving things, in a constant state of hyper-arousal, for me to try it out. I can't even remember if I just did one session or two. But it did, really, make a dramatic difference. I did get help to go to a very talented, experienced therapist, who could respond to what I was going through with huge professional distance, and not mix too much of her own "stuff" in. Incredibly healing. I recommend it to everyone. What may have prepared me for the success of the EMDR, were some Cranial-Sacral Therapy sessions the summer before. That therapist also used, I think, Hands of Light, or some Reiki, or something. But again, I was led to the right person at the right time. And I believe our angels take us where we need to be when we are ready. I have not tried (yet) some of the other somatic approaches, like EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), or "Shaking" which is a release process developed to help people release things that are deeply stored. I have access to information about them, but have not yet been in a place to try them. I feel like I will be doing some of that work this Fall, as the dark part of winter is usually when I have the hardest time reconciling my shadow with my Light. And I'd like to try and avoid "going down" into it too hard this time around the calendar's wheel. You are loved.

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