7 Tips To Help Someone With PTSD | Mental Health 101 | Kati Morton
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Today I'm sharing 7 ways we can help someone with PTSD (also known as post traumatic stress disorder) because, frequently I'm asked by members of our community how they can help those they love, or they feel like they are always doing the wrong things and want to know how to make it right. These 7 tips I'm offering today are very helpful, but I really dive into these topics deeper in my new book Traumatized, so if this is something you really need support with, I strongly suggest really digging deeper here to best support our loved ones. In this video I'll talk a little bit through PTSD symptoms, PTSD support, how to help someone with PTSD, and so much more. Click the link in the description to preorder yours and get access to the first 2 chapters today!
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As someone with PTSD who doesn't have these supports I can say thus list is 100% accurate and I wish I had just a few of these supports.
Social system is a huge deal, man felt 7, yeah, man just being there, 💜 felt that
Depending on the trauma, it's nigh-on impossible to get social support.
My trauma was due to lies and false allegations, gaslighting. Through observation and careful guidance of topics, I have sussed that the people around me don't care to uncover the truth, only follow immediate narratives and assume the accused is automatically guilty. And of course society-at-large is automatically going to disbelieve or blame me.
Makes one feel very much on their own.
I hope your strong and I have the same thing🤍🕊 we got this!
Same here
As a truama victim myself, I pushed people out of my life. I had to stop looking to the outside for help. I had to learn to look inward in order to heal. It's a skill set taught by Dr. Caroline LEAF, joe dispenza, Bruce lipton, Nicole Ladera, frank Anderson and more. Learn to rewire the mind and heal the truama from within. We can't change the past, but we can change how it affects us today. Also address nutritional deficiencies, so as to regulate anxiety, sleep etc.
My wife has been suffering from complex PTSD for over 10 years due to her traumatic abusive childhood and unfortunately the people who caused he so much pain are still involved in her life which doesn’t help her recovery at all. I have been the only one pushing her towards recovery while her family only cares about themselves with zero concern for how their actions hurt the woman I love more than anything in this world (I know that sounds like an over exaggeration but I promise you its true).
Thank you for these videos Katie.
I can relate to this cause my friend has gone through the same
So helpful. My sister is diagnosed with CPTSD and I just got diagnosed with PTSD. Now I know how to help her and myself
Yay! So glad I could help :) xoxo
My 16 year olds daughter was diagnosed with PTSD, after a event in 9th grade. So thank you! As a mother it is killing me seeing her go through this.
I definitely will use these helpful tips for my mom with her bad childhood and a lot of drama, thanks Kati
Of course!! I am so glad it was helpful :) xoxo
Thank you for this. My PTSD causes me to isolate and remove myself out of fear of hurting others - right when I need someone the most. These 7 perspectives are incredibly insightful
Same
#2 I have to tell this to my dad. He loves me above anything else, but he doesn't know when to not say anything 🥺
My wife doesn't really let me talk about it as it brings up a lot of hurt and pain to talk about it for both of us.
But one thing I would say that helps me personally. If I have had a bad trigger and my mind is rapidly going to a place I don't want to be, and I can't stop it. I can't escape the worse emotional pain imaginable. My wife forces me up on my feet, socks off, bare feet flat on the floor, tells me to tap my hands on a surface. Just to try keep me grounded to the present. If there mind is going somewhere awful, help keep them grounded.
It can really save and prevent them being forced to embrace the horror and hurt inside longer than they need to.
Do you know where that pain comes from today when you think about it?
You.
Today you are creating the pain for yourself.
Stay out of the darkness of the imagination, where only evil lives.
@@freshliving4199 of course its all in my head in memories and stored somewhere I can't seem to choose when to access. I actually can't remember all the details of my trauma, but sometimes out of no where I feel it in perfect clarity. I don't expect the pain to be coming from outa space or anywhere else but my own mind. So of course the pain is coming from me. But doesn't really solve anything.
It's easy to think that people create their own pain, almost hinting like they have the power to control it. Unfortunately the brain is a lot more complicated than that.
You think you have full control over your brain? If that was the case you could stand in front of a car or train and not feel any fear or panic that your about to be hit.. this is much like that. You can't just turn it off because you want to. It just doesn't work like that.
I have combat-related PTSD. I was thankful the VA was able to get me inpatient treatment getting Cognitive Processing Therapy, which has been so helpful.
Thank you. I always feel like I am doing something wrong. Life can be so exhausting . I am starting treatment soon.
I had a partner who would disassociate randomly and have an existential breakdown when we would argue about small things like what we wanted for dinner or driving directions. They had a traumatic, physically and emotionally abusive past with another partner that gave them PTSD and I think a lot of that trauma carried over. I looked up hours and hours of videos and read so many blogs trying to understand how I could be a more supportive partner and make a safer home. I tried asking them to go to therapy and to reach out to friends and family if they felt like they couldn't talk to me. Ultimately, it didn't work out. Going through the hot and cold of it was draining and I had to walk away. I wonder if I could have done more still. It's not easy loving someone with PTSD. It's very painful for everyone involved.
Random noises jerky energy really annoys me. I can end up in tears from it. Like cartoons blasting, skateboards banging. Loud fast music. I go in my bed and all I want is for someone to be in the house and even better, bring me food! (that dosnt happen!)
Kati, You must know that how helpful Your videos truly are in such extremely intense situations like this!
You really do help people from all over the world, and My gratitude is what I can't stop giving You!
Even in times where I am suffering, Your videos give Me strength!
Thank you Kati! With understanding comes empathy and compassion and maybe even friendship. With ignorance, comes fear, judgement and pushing away.
I have ptsd from childhood trauma. Seeing people fight or scream at each other triggers me and I just wanna crouch down in the corner and cry like I did when I was a kid and saw my parents fighting.
I have got to try to show this to my friends and family, I have got PTSD and it would help me so much if they knew about the things in this video. I am looking forward to receiving your book Kati, it's on pre-order. Thanks for this.
Thank you so much for this video Kati!! You actually answered the question I have been wanting to ask for AKA! I have a friend who has ptsd, just now getting treatment specifically for it, but as we are close she calls me when she is triggered or dissociating at times. It has ended up going okay, but I always felt so lost and unsure I was handling it the right way or heaven forbid making it worse…! So thank you, this helps!! As someone who struggles with C-PTSD myself (non-diagnosed at this point, mostly just really really resonating with how you have talked about it) I found it so helpful for knowing how to express my own needs to others as well, and how to let them in. Thank you for #4, that one is actually a trigger for me as from my own perspective it feels like a support (my sister) might only be there in a crisis sometimes which can add to the insecurities. I think it will actually help with expressing feelings more clearly… thank you!!!
Btw, I love AKA and you have been such a tremendous voice throughout this last year Kati that really helped in knowing ways to cope and manage symptoms of MDD and anxiety and to just survive when going through so much at once, it has been such a blessed encouragement and helped me not to give up and stay strong even when the going gets hard!! 🤗 Be safe, and stay well out there! Congrats on the new place!
Kati, these 7tips are really helpful to us. And I also wanna point out that you are killing it!
As a new creator, I noticed that you have less cuts and you're so good at talking to the camera that feels like you're talking to us! So grateful to have you 🤗
Do you have/would you ever make a video like this but for substance addiction?
you uploaded this at a perfect time for me, thank you.
An in-depth video with closed captions. Thanks.
You give the most helpful advice with the most humble and non arrogant manner. I love your vids!!!
Listening to you makes me calm and safe! ✨
We NEED PHYSICAL Caregivers to SERVE US AS SUPPORT TO GET US FEEL SAFE & CHERISHED, FEEL GOOD, FEEL BETTER. TO REBUILD A SENSE OF TRUSTY SAFETY NET. SAFETY FIRST IS CALMING.
Great video ! I love the editing !
Can't wait to read your book !
This is so helpful for EVERYONE because PTSD is so widespread but not talked about enough because of the associated feelings of shame, embarrassment, and isolation. I wish everyone who works in healthcare subscribed to your channel because healthcare itself can be a traumatizing experience and we should all be more knowledgeable and comfortable with providing support to people who need it the most. Thank you for your amazing content!
Your book is arriving on my doorstep tomorrow! Thank you
This is incredibly helpful. Thank you so much!! :)
You make it feel easy and possible ❤️.. Thank you 🌹
Kati is glowing today..looking beautiful!
I appreciate the pronoun “we.”
xoxox
Excellent! Thank you!
Very helpful, Kati. Anger has been a tough opponent , useful at times to fight through stress as long as it is not allowed to become extreme and end up damaging my thinking and emotions.
This was really helpful, thank u ❤️
So helpful, and in more situations than just helping someone with PTSD. Some great tips there for respectful interaction with people generally.
Agreed!
I wish I'd known this with my mate before she thought it was necessary to break up. Both of us were broken and couldn't help each other enough.
Thank you ❤❤!
Thanks Kati! See you next time too! 😊
Guess I'm following the guidelines well already. 💕
Thanks so much for these tips, Kati. They are supremely helpful, and it's paramount to protect yourself while helping your friend out.
This was very sweet and insightful.
Also made me think about other things that have none to do with PTSD:
Often my loved one asks me how to help me or what do I need or want (in a loving way). And sometimes, many times, I don't know.
Can you please make a video on how to find out and understand what it is we ourselves need from our loved ones as help?
(I personally am focused here on anxiety, depression, and physical health issues along with some mental health ones. But this request could apply to any line with any issues realizing what they need from others, I think)
Thank you for another helpful video, Kati!
I feel more open to finding a support group now. Not sure where to find any though, I don’t like Facebook for those things unless they’re verified or something
Is it possible that I had C-PTSD for a very long time but I lived relatively normal until now but my symptoms just got worse and resurfaced to an extreme when a therapist told me it was not normal what happened to me for the first time a few months ago... And now I feel worse than ever before... I didn't know my body has stored so much memories and pain... I don't want that...
I am diagnosed with PTSD, my partner is aware of this, we both agreed, when I am not stable and I ask her to leave the room and give me space she doesn’t, she makes it worse for us both. She throws fuel to fire and Ofcourse it’s all my fault, I love her and she says the same about me, but looks like she cannot help me when I am at my lowest.
Number 2 really hit home
You really know your s**t ....best videos
Dude ptsd here also, misunderstood most of the time, rarely feel safe and secure, yes alot of the time on edge, dude this advice is amazing yo, I don't want to live on edge, I long for those connections you've described here. Most of the time I just want to hold back and give up on that ever happening, because its really difficult finding ones squad, and voicing and feeling like you're not being a burden,
It really does mess w your esteem, inner security and feeling like you can't trust anyone.
However said all this, I love how you do give the perception that there factually may be hope to find those ppl, that they actually could exist. The advice given is phenomenal, dude I prefer not to be a pessimist and feel more love and support. Yes just someone offering to come over, bring food or Netflix or something can be huge. Literally just sit while going thru it. Not judging man.
Well said, I might have to check out your book, and thank you for being an awesome voice I feel more heard. 💜
I find the problem really is the lack of trustworthy people around. A lot of people appear trustworthy, but when you dig deeper, it's rare to find trustworthy people.
We can't just go to any person and expect them to understand. It has to be a trustworthy person, warm, and genuine to their core.
@@Un1234l Yes, I hear ya
Excellent video. Thank you Kati. You're so awesome and beautiful as always 🥰😁
Awe I am so glad you liked it Victor :) xox
Wow this was really helpful and as someone struggling with ptsd very validating. 💛 i would love to show this to my parents, do you think it’s as useful as the video if I’ll translate it for them on paper? They don’t speak English. Thank you for your work!
Yeah I need people to understand what I'm going through so I think I'm going to buy your book because people are tripping on me and asking me what's wrong with me and that's all that's wrong with me and I don't know how to put it into plain English where they can understand because unlike me they didn't go to school for mental health counseling so they trip on me and when I try to break it down and the language that I understand I get lost. Needless to say because of my own mental health journey and the fact that I'm falling apart I'm actually not practicing but I need them to understand what I'm going through and it's ridiculous and they don't. Thank you for doing this video.
I just discovered this channel. Have you done any videos about Complex PTSD?
I want to make my partner (I dont know what to call him as I've ruined my relationship with him) feel safe. I'm the reason of his problem I've destroyed him completely he used to be someone very kind, loving, caring, gentle, calm and respectful towards everyone but he is no longer like that and I regret it as much as I cant even express it. It's very shameful for me that a person, once used to be very calm and loving is now a totally different person and I'm the reason behind it. I'm a narcissist who destroyed him in every possible and impossible way I've done all the things which caused him suffer from ptsd but now I want to give him a sense of safety and security I want to make him feel special and help him to overcome this problem. Its sounding funny that a narcissist is talking to look after a person as normally a narcissist doest not do this and it will look like I'm acting, I'm just trying to present myself as a good character who just wants to help people around. But no the case is not like that, I know I've created the mess and I'm responsible, I want to change myself and if can't I can definitely try to make my loved one feel good and make him feel like I'm a good friend.😢
I was dignosed with PTSD, this helps, cause I fee like no one understand me.
This was so useful, thank you! I am about to become an RA for my university, so it is very nice to have this sort of resources on hand.
Could you do the video about CPTSD or recommend some good books about CPTSD? CPTSD is not very well-known in my country. Even some therapists don't know about CPTSD. I'm suffering from CPTSD for many years till I finally know it was CPTSD. Hope I can learn more skills about CPTSD here to heal myself🥺.
hello i have a question. If you have been emotionally abused and you decided to post about it on social media when they aren't around is it a bad move to approach?
I went through ptsd due to bullying and low self esteem,
I have PTSD from my teenage years when girls I like rejected me. Now as an adult I am afraid to talk to women I like, but have no problem talking to women I am not interested in. The rude comments and negative experiences hurt me, and those things stay with me and mentally (although it feels physical in my chest) scarred me....
...Now I am also afraid of relationships as well, if it gets too serious I get scared and back off. If people were nicer to me years ago, I would not relive this trauma still today. I feel just because I am a man and like a woman that I am some sort of "bad person" and that I feel shame.,...
...What you see in movies and tv shows does not help this either. Society does not help this stereotype much either. It is automatically assumed just because I am a guy that I automatically just hit on every woman I see, and just want sex from her. And that if she is not interested that my feelings do not get hurt and I don't cry in private...but that is not true. Men are not mindless zombies with no emotions.
I'm wondering if prior to the trauma you had any hobby or passion or goal you have done or are interested in doing. Something that completely put you in the zone and hyperfocus.
I know with PTSD, feeling emotions and concentration is difficult. But I feel the confidence from competence and self-ownership of being great at something you work hard on builds a resilience to what other people think. Especially if what you put your effort into and see results from is physical exercise, which has proven mental health benefits.
Hello Kati I would like to ask which of your listed sources is best to order your book to Europe? I am having problems with Amazon. I also would like to ask your editors email,I have already a book on Amazon but mine died,it's difficult to find sy who knows it's formatting issues. Thank you so much.
I'm a PTSD survivor but not from war..I've been abused mentally by 3 people in my life..2 as a kid,1 as an adult. I also have trouble showing emotions so I fly off the handle sometumes
Yes live and compassion. Then there comes a time to do the work, to be relieved of the bandage of self, anger, past etc...
Dr. Caroline leaf, cleaning up your mental mess. Dr. Joe Dispenza's mind management is good too. We can rewire the brain and heal the mind from emotional truama.
I'm free from my ptsd. You can be too.
PLEASE look into the high rate of success with Ketamine infusion therapy. The success rate is close to 90% in most recent studies with low risk for dependence/abuse. My own clients with PTSD have found relief with this therapy more than ANY OTHER MEDICATION. There is a ton of research that shows a much higher efficacy rate than with SSRIs. Love you Kati.
Too bad most insurance doesn’t cover it
@@kayligo MANY insurance companies WILL reimburse you (about 30-50%} when you send in a REIMBURSEMENT FORM with a Superbill from Dr. Mine did!! It takes about 30 days but it’s worth the wait. YOU CANNOT AFFORD NOT TO. I WISH I KNEW ABOUT THIS 20 years ago…. I would have robbed a bank! LOL
So i was diagnosed with PTSD from my therapist m. I have been assaulted in the bast and one case of rape. I don’t know how to work thru this within dating. I crave intimacy but if someone wants to be spontaneous I don’t “lash out” but mentally i freeze up and go into fight or flight. I want those romantic advances but i feel held back too. Like I don’t know what about it triggers me or the solution or boundaries. It usually doesn’t get past two dates
I think it's important to learn how to cope with triggers because sometimes we just can't avoid them. Plus learn that we are responsible for our triggers
Hi - I am still just trying to recover from ptsd - so the only way as of now is to detach yourself from people or situations and find a supportive group whom you can trust and feel safe - they aren’t going to trigger you since they genuinely care and love you. The unfortunate irony is that not many like me are lucky to find such a group - I will put all of my efforts in finding a safe place again. Life isn’t supposed to be that hard to live - thats what Grey said in Greys Anatomy and I find that line very true.
So what if the worst trigger is love?
Please help me. How can I connect to you?
大家好👍👍👍
How the heck does someone find help when its medical ptsd and trauma daily, very scary and your one safe person you thought u had turned on you in the middle of it all and truamatized u more and now youre left with one family member that is like that spouse and youre getting hit mentally and physically daily with triggers which affects mental and physical, i have yet to find anyone like me, stuck, scared, not sure how im going to live im so sick, no support at all and dont do well on meds of any kind
I only get scolded for lashing out even if it's because of a trigger the other person caused. Mind you the people doing that are mental healthcare professionals
I'm alone 99% of the time Noone likes being around me I have so many triggers I find myself not watching TV anymore loud noises cars sleep lying down hole slew of things
Hai kati. I almost watch every vedio of yours and after how to stop binge eating vedio i have lost 3kg in a week and I am still losing weight. Thankyou kati. Please make a vedio on tips how to cure or treat an add suffering patient. Because kati i had a dream from past 19 years to become an I. A. S officer but because of add disease I am unable to focus and pay attention. Please make a vedio so that i can fulfil my dream and die happily. Vedio on how to treat add patients cure them so that they could get jobs. Please help me kati as my all hopes are on u kati doctor. Will keep watching all your vedios in my rest of life. Please make a vedio on to how to cure or treat add patients as such vedio you haven't made before. Please please😊
Adhd is caused by differences in brain structure, but getting psychiatric help can be useful, medication and therapy options exist like cbt, talk therapies and dbt! 💕
In my world the list doesnt exist 😭💔
I'm pretty sure I've had anger as a primary emotion. This unfalsifiable, invalidating "secondary emotion" stuff is why everyone gets mad at psychology people. The Freudian says you want to sleep with your mother, and when you're horrified by the idea, he says to you that the horror is a secondary emotion to protect you from your real socially unacceptable feelings. The Freudian is full of crap. There is nothing he could see that would convince him he's wrong, so his statements have zero value to a person seeking the truth.
Sometimes what the situation needs is for you to be filled with fire and purpose, so you feel full of fire and purpose. I don't need anxiety to light the fire. Anger does have a tendency to break down into powerlessness when you interfere with the purpose, but that's a damaged engine damaging its surroundings as it tries to run, not the true primary emotions showing through. If you refuse the fire before you refuse the purpose, you don't get the feelings of powerlessness, because they aren't actually there until damaged anger creates them by thrashing about.
I misread the title and thought it was for the person who has PTSD instead of someone who doesn't 😐
One day my name might be up there. Sorry I’m only on the $5 one lol
You can't avoid a ptsd person's triggers. The more they avoid their triggers, the more the triggers expand to more and more things. They are responsible to fix their mental health issues. My ex has ptsd and turned on me like a rabid dog after 28 years of marriage, before that I couldn't talk to him about any of my feelings. He was so emotionally shut down and closed off we had no real relationship left. I went through 2 years of feeling like I developed secondary ptsd from being his doormat. The divorce rate for a marriage with one ptsd partner is high. There is healing for ptsd despite what western psychology tells people. If you believe you can heal, you will find a way. Jesus Christ is the way to healing anything, faith in Jesus can move mountains. Too many people put their faith in psychiatrists and meds, this is only a bandaid when stopped the underlying brokenness is still there.
These points seem a lot more geared to BPD rather than PTSD.
Maybe they apply to both? Although, I saw a good comment talking about how with PTSD in particular it can be especially important to listen if the person actually needs time alone because having someone around can be triggering/unhelpful, especially if you’re asking them to give you space and they’re forcing/coercing you to be around them.
Self-cherishing, self-CARE TO BECOME RESILIENT.
Dated a lady with ptsd and depression, talk about a battle you can never win. Life lessons....thank God I'm always happy!
Maybe consider that there’s likely to be people with PTSD reading these comments and to call it “a battle you can never win” could be hurtful 🙂
Is there a way to prevent having ptsd when you know you’re going to go through a traumatic event, before it happens? I don’t care what people’s opinions are on the covid vaccines, I just don’t want them, and being forced to get it or lose my job would be traumatic.
I’m right there with you, I won’t get it I’ve been in survival mode since this started. The world is a not even as safe a place now as it was before . I wish there was a Facebook group for people like us for support. I have felt suicidal it’s been horrible. You are the first person I have seen share this. I don’t feel so alone now. Thank you for sharing❤️
We NEED GOOD TRUSTY HEALTHY ENABLERS. Please?
Money is a ENABLER, U KNOW?
My. Mental. Health. Nurse. Dosent. Understand. Me
Kitty. My. Mental. Health nurse. Dosent. Understand. Kitty cat kitty
Kati, I have to totally disagree with you.
Anger does not protect you.
Anger tries to destroy you and everyone around you.
If you don’t understand the Truth about anger, then all your advice can do is only help people temporarily cope.
Coping is still dying.
You want people to overcome so that they can be free and live.
Good evening Katie (presumably in fact afternoon for yourself!) I have a question with regards to treating ongoing trauma if you have the time to reply, I appreciate you often seem to be inundated with questions.
I'm a detective in the U.K. currently working within the ViSOR unit (violent and sexual offenders). I see a therapist who is excellent and very helpful to me. One of the issues we have however is that I use my therapist to maintain myself and to help keep my self control.... not to be "cured". Do you have, or know of, any techniques for dealing with trauma when the traumatic events are ongoing. It seems difficult to mitigate symptoms.of p.t.s.d. when they're either continually being added to or infact actively helpful. Hyperarousal being the quintessential example. If I retired or left the Service this would hold little function but whilst working within the Police it can and indeed has helped me. Nightmares and traumatic experiences are very.difficult to digest when a conveyer belt is bringing fresh horror on an almost daily basis. I see my therapist to stop myself.degradin any further to help me maintain a level.of coherance and control necessary to discharge my duties... but it seems little more than a pipe dream to expect alleviation whilst performing this work. I have attended my therapists office whilst still at work before, when I am working very long shifts and have been able to return afterwards, and on dome occasions almost directly after traumatic events. I have attended twice still covered in gore. What I get from.the session is stability and a place to gather my thoughts and resolve so I can continue but it seems impossible to truly heal in these circumstances. Rather than dealing with a specific issue or event and how it affected me for any great length of time by the next week some other disaster will have superseded the last and replaced it.
I fully appreciate there probably is no real answer to these specific circumstances but I'd be very interested, and enormously grateful, if you knew otherwise. Either way hope you have a lovely week.
Thomas.