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Default Jun 25, 2020 at 04:48 PM
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Is there any coping skills for managing PTSD? I been looking for resources and I can't find any resources to help me cope.
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Is there any coping skills for managing PTSD? I been looking for resources and I can't find any resources to help me cope.
There is an article at the top of this topic called grounding techniques. You have to scroll through it a bit to find the information. The link at the top doesn't work but someone posted all the info inside the article.

Also, I think you need to be more specific in what you want to cope with. PTSD encompasses a wide variety if symptoms. You might post what you are feeling to get some feedback as to what you are struggling with. Then you can work on coping with it.

For example, if you feel like you are always having to watch out for something bad to happen, you may need coping skills for hyper-vigilence. If you are having trouble breathing, you may need coping skills for panic attacks.

Hope this helps.
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There is an article at the top of this topic called grounding techniques. You have to scroll through it a bit to find the information. The link at the top doesn't work but someone posted all the info inside the article.

Also, I think you need to be more specific in what you want to cope with. PTSD encompasses a wide variety if symptoms. You might post what you are feeling to get some feedback as to what you are struggling with. Then you can work on coping with it.

For example, if you feel like you are always having to watch out for something bad to happen, you may need coping skills for hyper-vigilence. If you are having trouble breathing, you may need coping skills for panic attacks.

Hope this helps.
Thank you for the information. I will have a look at the article.

I am always watching for danger. I have trouble breathing, sometime I begin hyperventilating. I have physical symptoms such as having shaky hands, fast heartbeat, chest pain, nauseous, sometime I throw up, hot flashes and migraine. I will burst in tears. I just want to run. When the flash back start. I will have nightmare.
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Thank you for the information. I will have a look at the article.

I am always watching for danger. I have trouble breathing, sometime I begin hyperventilating. I have physical symptoms such as having shaky hands, fast heartbeat, chest pain, nauseous, sometime I throw up, hot flashes and migraine. I will burst in tears. I just want to run. When the flash back start. I will have nightmare.
Im so sorry you suffer this way. It gets better as you work through all this stuff. Don't give up! You are very smart and brave to search for answers.
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People are so quick to write off taking deep breaths. It's not so that you calm down it's so you flood your body and brain with oxygen and your blood stream which naturally helps slow your heart rate.

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Im so sorry you suffer this way. It gets better as you work through all this stuff. Don't give up! You are very smart and brave to search for answers.
It took me awhile for me to realized what was wrong with me because of the multiple symptoms I have. I'm looking for ways to managed the symptoms as well as heal.
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People are so quick to write off taking deep breaths. It's not so that you calm down it's so you flood your body and brain with oxygen and your blood stream which naturally helps slow your heart rate.
I never thought about how oxygen flow in our blood.
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That reminds me, there is a good phone app called "Virtual Hope Box". It has all kinds of helpful things to calm us down. There is a safe place narrator and a deep breathing monitor, etc.
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That reminds me, there is a good phone app called "Virtual Hope Box". It has all kinds of helpful things to calm us down. There is a safe place narrator and a deep breathing monitor, etc.
Thank you for this information. I will try it out
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