What is PTSD?
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Dr. Harry Croft gives an In-depth explanation of what PTSD is to the sufferer plus its causes and symptoms. Watch to learn more about PTSD.
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This is the first helpful thing I have come across in 30 minutes of Google searching for how to simply explain it to friends
Amelia, there's a post on HealthyPlace.com called "How to Talk About Your PTSD" at goo.gl/jsPKqb. It's more of an aid to help you describe what is going on with you than a simple, more generic explanation. I'm glad you found Dr. Croft's video helpful.
+HealthyPlace thank you!
i was diagnosed with PTSD when i was 15. i started seeing a therapist & at first, thought it was useless. but i'm 19 now & i can definitely say that therapy has changed my life. it's helped my relationships with people (not fixed, i still have no idea how to trust anyone) but certainly helped. i understand that talking is healing. bottling my fears & emotions got me to such an ugly state of mind. if you've been diagnosed, you've got nothing to lose, give it a shot
I've been diagnosed with PTSD. You will know if you have it. I can't sleep I have nightmares. Every muscle in my body aches when I wake up in the morning from straining and moving in my sleep. It's a physical and an emotional battle.
I don't know exactly what you're going through but I will pray for you and with you. I want you to be healed.
I have ptsd for 40yr or more l take ptsd one day at a time everyday is not the same it like a rollercouster for me l have learn a lot in the past 15 yr vietnam68.
Its amazing how drastically your life changes after seeing people die such terrible deaths in your arms, your perspective on life changes. Ive never feared death before but sadly now I do.
All wounds are not visible!
I have PTSD. Watching this video makes me feel a little better. I feel like I am not the only one...I wish people would love us as we love this country. It's almost 1am and I can't sleep...and it will be like this for the rest of my life. I really miss life before ptsd. Thanks for the video.
I can relate totally. Same story here. I'm writing some childrens books. I hope that helps. And it would help even more if the kids love it! My self-publishing projects are NOT about the money but learning to live again....I miss the person I once was but my strength is slowly comeing back...I still have dreams. That's how I hold on. But it's still hard. Everyday I have terrible memories...
I was diagnosed with otsd, from rescuing a fligh attendent during severe turbulance on an international flight. I was the only one on board that flight who was able to help the injured. I know First Aid, CPR and the Heminlich maneuvor.. i was able to take a piece of glass out of her face that was so close to left eye, It could have blinded her. I relive that flight many times. And now I am in treatment.
The Doctor explained PTSD very concisely. Great job.
It is amazing how simple consciously one can find themselves in the past, present, or future with their thoughts...we have new solutions for PTSD...great to see everyone sharing and helping one another...we live for a brighter future...Time perspective is very important to be aware of...Aloha
I have all the symptoms. My 'life' went from one horrible trauma to another from very early childhood until now because to me everything sucks or is going to suck...and it never ever fucking stops as I know all things are bad or will turn bad.
Your subconcious remembers a vast amount of things that happened to you, particularly major traumatic stuff. These contain the triggers, that cause events to leap back into your concious thinking. Things that affect your behaviour, self-esteem, and emotional well being. Depression and dissociation can result. You have to control your thinking, and rationalise what is happening to you, and why you're responding as you do.
Thank you for sharing this. I can see how many people this could affect!
yeah when i was little i used to get super clear auditory flashbacks(almost like auditory hallucination) of my dad yelling when i would try to fall asleep
My dad is an Army veterean has severe PTSD. He won't leave the house unless he's going to work, going to his parent's house or his firned's house. He cusses all the time, and yells, when i was a kid, he kept man-handling me and hurting me over small stuff. He even nearly killed me once.
it might have cost me my job last night, its a rough path and embarrassing sometimes, but we get through it one second at a time, just gotta breath, and take it in strides my friends.;)
I've had PTSD for about 16 years now. Everything he says here is true and happened to me the symptoms.. The only thing that helps is having 1 person you can really talk to and cry to who will understand and help you......I never found a family member or close friend that understands but had a great therapist, Its a very horrible thing to live with,,,,,
I want to try to change my life and forget about my traumatic experiences. But each and every day I find my self either lying on the sofa deeply depressed. Or running outside with my dog with heavy panic attacks. Im so sick of this, I rarely think about my days in the army now a days, but still suffer so fucking much!
your not alone...
I have ptsd and it sucks! I did make a video just today about my experiences with it and have it on my channel. Not that a 12 minute video can even go it justice. Saying it's horrible can be an understatement.
I take Effexor and Seroquel for PTSD I have auras without these meds it's panic attacks, slowly recovering from a breakdown in 2008 when all the Pandora's box started to materialise. Effexor cocoons me, Seraquel helps me get off the merry go round and sleep. Love these meds, they are helping me rebuild my life a day at a time. Xx
Thank you, I have just sent a related video that may be useful to people
Im currently waiting for a councilor. You know you get great support from your surviving army mates but many of them got problems talking about it and start drinking or in these worst cases theres drug-abuse and suicide! We who been in the armed forces often been brainwashed with this "gung-ho" attitude but Im through with that attitude and will not silently suffer! Thanks for your support!
I'm a combat veteran diagnosed with PTSD. A stress-reaction is a normal response to an abnormal experience. I have nightmares about the military life I once lived. The abuses of the chain-of-command were equally as stressful as combat. The friendly-fire of those who are hyper-controlling, causes anxiety that adds to the enormous stress of combat. The abuses of war and of those who feed the fire of war, are too great to speak of. Military life is as unnatural as the war in my opinion.
PTSD after expousure to a terrifying event or ordeal in which grave physical harm you need a good Dr. Psychiatry and a good Friend or Family who give you hand to stand up again, it's long treatment you need to learn how to cope with troubling memories, and talk about what happend with trust people or your Dr. some people it take 2-3 years to get over it, you need to talk about it with counsellor and more acupressure, hypnotherapy, massage, shiatsu or yoga.
I have PTSD from an extreemely abusive relationship with anbusive fiance in the past as well as spending time with abusive family members the flashbacks never go away! I get drunk every night to try and forget my past. I cannot trust anyone anymore, I cannot get into a serious relationship anymore because I fear that person will be abusive towards me even though the chances are rather slim but those flashbacks just occur and trigger my anxiety attacks and meltdowns I want to beable to trust other people but I just cant, I dont think I can fall in love ever again because of this. It is a bad combo with having ASD the long term memories combined with this really sucks!
You can, just probably not with a person. Try to fall in love with helping others and teach them to help others. Life is not fair, but GOD IS GREAT!
I was rear ended in a car accident in July 2007 suffered a brain injury had 3 surgeries and may need more. I suffer from this. I was also abused as a child.
@VictorianBombshell Don't worry, it gets better, I had counseling and meds for a year and a half, now I just have something for panic attacks and an antidepressant. . And I was on some really high powered meds for that first year.
Its horrible because you feel like the quality of your life is so low that it isnt worth living anymore.You think that you are never going to escape and have feelings of impending doom!And as much as you try to remove your mind from it it just gets worse diging into your mind until you only think about it for hours and just feel that you can never recover to your former self.
I still have trouble hearing doorbells, am hyper-vigilante, and have nightmares. A home invasion by a serial rapist in my neighborhood caused long term problems for me. Although I was able to fight my way out of being raped, the attack harmed my sense of well being in any new environment. A recent change has brought the fears to the forefront once again.
PTSD is real, hard to live with at times, and hard to explain to anyone who hasn't had a life threatening experience.
I definitely have spent time with "blunted" emotions thanks to ptsd
@RatChieftain I was mentally and physically abused for over 10 years by my stepfather.I got physical scars and a whole lot of mental baggage,I got PTSD and borderline personality disorder,So I hear ya on that.
What helped me with my Issues alot is meditation,cause that'll help you to slow everything down around yourself,and also teaches you how to breath,incase another panic attack comes.
I have this it's so depressing every day I'm scared I'm gonna have something bad happen to me again I'm always on edge
Thank you ,I for 45yrs thought I was truly crazy , I to are as you said about family, kids ,ect ,people crowds ,VA today still says your ok ,I see my self now,I am not.
The military has had a lot of names for PTSD, such as "Battle Fatigue," or "shell-shock" etc. Before that, soldiers who had trauma would often join monasteries, or become hermits, substance-abusers etc. There's just no proven effective treatment for it.
Your not alone. I don't have flashback, just can't remember some things happening. My bro thinks it is so weird. I get the shakes alot and it is very difficult to drive a car. Its been 11 years since Iran and I'm now starting to drive up to 45 miles away. I need a whisky when I arive but I can do it. Just can't stand another car near me. Yes noises will get to you. A roach running around the room will keep you up all night. I have a small dog and her breathing keeps me up. I keep my rifle close.
Reason I ask is you certainly don't have to be a soldier to suffer from it. I first heard about PTSD when a girl I went to college with mentioned her dad was being treated for it, they used to fly night missions in helicopters in close formation, and it was extremely stressful and dangerous stuff. I never thought ordinary people or civilians suffered from it, but they certainly can.
Thanks for information .. I live with it for years .. unfortunately I have no money and where I live no1 even talks about it .. it's unbearable
Oh wow, I just found out, I might possibly suffer from this. Great video!
great summary. thanks!
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Thank you Dr Croft for this very informative video. And to Combatptsd, your conclusion about your experience doesn't make it fact. Please don't confuse people w/unsubstantiated supposition. Bi Polar is real and completely different from PTSD although people with bi poloar are probably more susceptible to PTSD.
sense PTSD is an anxiety disorder would you say that the more is learned in helping those with it could be used to help those with OCD, Generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety, panic attack/disorder better? I don't ever want to go back to taking meds for my anxiety.
I know a guy who has PTSD, when he was young he was raped by his both his parents, when he got old enough he joined the military (rangers to be exact) he saw bad stuff (limbs being blow off,he lost his left pinkie do to shrapnel) so now he's bipolar and he's really really jumpy, like standing behind him will cause him to jump/swing at you. Its very sad.
Neither did I! It started after service 2008 with a light depression and during the years I developed "Social phobia, Agora-phobia, panic-attacks" according to the doctor!
Did anyone mention PTSD before or after service? No of course not!
thanks
With the recent, separate outbursts from the AA flight attendant and the SkyBlue pilot, claiming that the plane was going to crash and it's 9/11 all over again, do you think it's a case of PTSD? Kind of sounds like it. We covered this on our channel if anyone is interested.
Me too, it's worse than horrible.
NLP, is fantastic for PTSD
You ever been bullied, or had a situation where you felt your life was threatened, or felt powerless?
PTSD is not a fun thing to have. I just was diagnosed yesterday.
This is Angelo in for my experiences
@janis123us My two brothers were there also,both captured and was hed as pow for over two years,My oldest brother suffers so bad with post trauma that it is breaking my heart,God bless you my American Soldier and I pray you find the help you deserve.Ill do some research for you my brother and we will find the help you need.
Would believing that I was going to Hell for eternity and the terror that gripped me at that moment i really truly believed I was going there and there was no hope for me...afterwards can that be a traumatic event?
In these times be aware of PTSD in your contact with others.
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@RRD050505
There are underground therapists that will do PTSD MDMA psychotherapy to help you out. How to find them? I don't really know that... but maybe just find people with similar problems as a start.
And if my PTSD is caused by a bad drug experience where i had what they call "bad trip" (im not addicted to drugs the one time i tried to smoke drugs it made me have a panick attack and i think caused PTSD ?
Do you know of any similar cases in which i may have some tips?
what if we dont wanna remember all the bad things?
Im just pissed all the time, i can't sleep and i isolate myself from everybody because i just dont trust no one. i just want to go back, i cant let it go, nobody understands nothing and no one cares, im viewed as a 22 year street punk, i dont need advise, i had friends overseas, people i can depend on, i did good things in afghanistan. i fear the future, im home all day with my firearms looking for burglars, all night. even now im scared. i need to calm down.
So umm. I am a veteran. I am a drunk. I avoid family situations. I live alone in my basement. I am kind of sure why I looked this up, but I also know by tomorrow I wont care.'
Apathy, they key to my last days.
Doc.Is PTSD in your mind first then the body or viscera. The cause doesn't matter to me like Milton Erickson I aim to learn to treat them. Maybe that doesn't matter. Treat one treat the other at the same time. If you can read it don't trip on my writing. Watch I probably got everything write.
How does one find out if they have PTSD? I was just in a traumatic car crash, and am having lots of flashbacks, not sleeping, and other symptoms. I just need to know if i have it or not.
***** Yes, i saw some therapists and psychiatrists and i was diagnosed with PTSD.
I was attacked with a knife in my stomach, if my neighbor wouldnt have come to helped me it could have been a rape. I hate when anybody approached me from the back I jump and scream every time.
I was involved i n an accident where a young man ran out in front of me and was almost killed with me going 45 miles per hour completely sober and going the speed limit. It really screwed me up mentally and i coudnt go down the street for a long time where it happened i have ptsd i am scared to drive and feel that it can happen at anytime. i am paranoid and feel why did this happen to me?
It's normal fear of the worst, + experience of it: i.e. the mind naturally has the strongest need to avoid the most horrible incidents; and so when such an incident *happens,* then there's no satisfactory resolution to it.
And more importantly, each person's trauma is entirely subjective; i.e. one person can be traumatized by something that won't affect another person. For example when I was 15, I was in an accident as a car-passenger, that left me unable to drive until I was 35-- even though I was a bit of a daredevil on off-road motorcycles and go-carts, and I got into near-fatal accidents on them; the difference was that I was in CONTROL, and was fortunately always able to AVOID them through control. As a passenger in a serious accident, this didn't apply.
Like the saying goes, "what doesn't destroy me, makes me stronger;" i.e. you can gain useful experience from a crisis, if it's not traumatic; unfortunately, some misquote this to mean "that which doesn't KILL me, makes me stronger..." which isn't the case.
Whatever you do, do NOT hesitate to get diagnosis and treatment for PTSD; if it keeps you from driving, then have your insurance arrange alternate transportation for you, etc. Also talk to your therapist about possible driving-simulators, even violent video-games like "Grand Theft Auto" as a means of exposure-therapy.
Can you get PTSD from being ridiculed/rejected alot in your life?
I remember going into my attic and it smelled like nam . threw every thing out (including my stomack)don't keep anything . medals and all went into the garbage can
@caboose4895 Ur not a freak...and I dont think u have ptsd,idk how to describe it bu i dont think its ptsd
imho, i believe workplace bullying can also cause ptsd.
@RRD050505 hang inthere =i am dealing with it too-cannot afford help but i know that one of the best things is trying to ake some friends who care i had to moce far away form all that i knew and all my frioedna and it caused a worsening of my symtoms
I got this shit! And actually you think more about seeing your friends taking a bullet than about civilians. Most of the ideas about moral and why you fight vanishes and you become more egocentric.
What is the most effective treatment for severe prsd does anybody know
Juan Parra People can tell you what works for them, but every person is different. The treatment that works for one may or may not work for you. There are PTSD treatment options to consider. Check this page: goo.gl/cVUUv3
@caboose4895 probably you have it.
PTSD bad what saved me GOLF BALLS i hit them till i turn blue now i am older getting tougher to hit now i just started bowling knocking pins down makes me feel good i concentrate constantly on golf and bowling and aspirins i dont take drugs told the VA
Im getting tested in about a week... im 16 years old and i was raped and witnessed a triple homicide. now everytime i hear an unexpected gunshot i freak out and everything pretty much goes blank and when im in a public restroom i get super nrevous and well pretty much the same thing happens... idk whats wrong with me but do i have ptsd? or am i just that much of a freak?
ptsd have alot to it but da main reason army men get it because of yhe thousands of civilians dat died the army men take it on hard and thinks its their fault and they feel if i let so much people down i mind as well go down to if you play Spec ops the line you'll learn alot about it
Life is all memory, and misery
@bobs8520 New studies show that words CAN hurt physically.
i have this its horrible.
people scare the shit out of me
Help
i have it,,,,
I cant belive i just watched it for a stupid show called "Happy Tree Friends"
There's a green bear names Flippy that has PTSD because he was in a war with tigers and his team died, then he "flipped out"(thus his name) and killed all the tiger army.
so your saying bipolar disorder is completely fake?
Depends on who you are dude, maybe he thought that you didn't need as long since you were more bad ass ;) cheer up
So is there a difference between being traumatized and PTSD ? PTSD seems to handle about one or maybe a few severe experiences. But what if you are a police officer. 40 years on the force. Seen all kinds of horrible things like severe car accidents with deadly outcome, suicide, Picking up body parts from people that have jumped in front of a train, violence, being in life threatening situations many times. child abuse etc etc. You can handle it ''fine'' the first 30 years but the last 10 years you start loosing it. Than comes a very nasty divorce on top of that and you are left a wreck that can only get through the day with the help of a bottle of vodka and a bag of cannabis. Is that PTSD or is that something else?
I cannot diagnose what the problem might be. I suggest you talk to your doctor about your symptoms. Being traumatized does not necessarily mean you'll develop PTSD, but because you're self-medicating the symptoms and they're disrupting your life, I hope you do go ask for help.
@@healthyplace Thanks so much for the reply. I was talking about my father not myself. He is so much in denial that it is not easy to talk to him about it at all.. But we'll give it a try again. Thanks so much 👍
I have ptsd.......
Hope ya'll US troops seen the movie 'The lucky ones'. It's about you. Relax and breath OK and don't do something retarded ;) I got PTSD but now that I have a diagnos I know what I need to do to gett well, fuck yhea!
id rather be kicked the shit out of then to deal with verbal abuse....
I got PTSD from a bad spice trip
This cannot help those who has had PTSD
Strange, but as for loosing my 3 best friends in Afghanistan, I feel like joining them! Not necessarily, meaning that I wanna kill my self! They are now guardian angels for 3 familys and a few friends.
if you are poor there is no help for you.
if you are wealthy you can get help.
Instead of helping the poor I say we hurt the rich.
@omar1bgd i call bull shit on that... sorry man
Law enforcement.
reading these comments, i really hate all of humanity
no you just wish you had it
Seriously? He is insensitive and shouldn't be stayed with :(
@bobs8520 in my best scotish ...........
stix en stones may break ye bones ......
BUT the words do harm you