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Default Jan 10, 2019 at 05:18 PM
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Default Jan 10, 2019 at 06:13 PM
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How do you define recovering?
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How do you define recovering?
Stop suffering everyday? lead a satisfactory life?

Free of CPTSD symptoms?

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I’m off medication and I’m working if you consider that recovery .
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Default Jan 10, 2019 at 07:45 PM
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I wonder if recovery is possible too. I'm off meds, but unable to work. I can't remember what it feels like to wake up "feeling good" and have it last all day and night. More and more days are a disappointment because I did wake up, even if I only had a couple of hours of fitful sleep. I wish there was a pill that worked for me to clear this shadow of overwhelming despair that has become my constant companion.
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Default Jan 10, 2019 at 07:46 PM
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I don’t take meds as I’m allergic. Have you read any books by Pete Walker?

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I deal with despair.
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I’m off medication and I’m working if you consider that recovery .
I was working and studying while being off of medication, but I wasn't truly OK, my brain exploded a month ago and I got fired and missed my exams.

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Well maybe you’re not ready to be off medication. I took 10 years off work and took medication for 10 years while I raised my daughter on my own. Work is still hard for me, I recently cut back from 40 to 32 hours and I may cut back one more day.
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My signature below sums up how I feel about it ... Yet I still keep working on it even though I'm not sure why.
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Default Jan 12, 2019 at 05:09 PM
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yes recovery is possible.

example when a person no longer is having nightmares, flashbacks panic attacks due to the trauma they went through or witnessed here in my location they are considered to be recovered/ healed / cured what ever wording you use.

thats not saying a person cant have a new trauma happen and not go though PTSD problems.

it just means that in life people go through things. they learn how to handle their trauma's and witnessing the trauma and then problems due to that sit and when they no longer have problems due to that situation they are considered recovered.

example when I stopped having nightmares, flashbacks, panic attacks, depression and other PTSD symptoms due to my long term trauma in childhood I was considered by medical and mental health standards healed, recovered.

then as an adult I witnessed a work related trauma which caused me to go through a fresh batch of nightmares, panic attacks and flashbacks.depression and other PTSD symptoms. when I was no longer having these problems due to the work related trauma I was by medical and mental health standards recovered/ cured/ healed.

At the moment because I am not having any PTSD symptoms due to any past or present trauma I am considered recovered.

my suggestion is talk with your treatment providers they will explain to you based on what your location considers recovery from mental problems, whether its possible for you to recover.
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Default Mar 04, 2019 at 10:18 AM
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Hi,

I have complex PTSD, and while I will always have it, I am doing better. I have been doing DBT therapy since July 2017, and it's very effective. I am no longer very triggered, flashbacks have dulled, and I am working on my small business.

I think I'll have relapses, but I want you to know if gets better if you get a good therapist and keep working on it. My therapist told me I have made such good progress, we can do only two sessions a month! So it does get better.
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Default Mar 05, 2019 at 05:33 AM
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I am soooo much better than I was just 2 years ago. Lots of EMDR and ego state therapy. My emotional flashbacks are less infrequent, I no longer self harm and my eating disorder has disappeared. I can handle more tasks and not get so overwhelmed. I tolerate a lot more.

Now not sure if it from all the therapy or is it from just getting older, have I just created an environment where triggering things and events have been diminished otherwise known as my "safety bubble"? I am really not sure. My T would say otherwise.

I still hate the human race and would much rather live on an island all alone. I also can not wait until I just die of whatever I am suppose to die of. Is that PTSD or just left over damage from childhood trauma?

Anyway I think if a real assessment was done on me I would no longer meet the criteria of PTSD. Just some emotional flashbacks and trying to isolate and avoid.

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