Isn't showing off half the reason we take photos?
I'd read a bit about CBT in relation to PTSD treatment (also EMDR) but wasn't really familiar with the details until my partner took the course on it. It was interesting, a good bit of it is quite similar to the stuff I'd stumbled upon dealing with addiction.
Ah, I gotcha, that's pretty much the same schedule I'm on, although when I was out in your neck of the woods the time difference almost had me on a 'normal' schedule for a while. One of these days . . .
Thank you. Lol, as soon as I wrote that it felt overly dramatic but it's not untrue. I'd heard of EMDR but not ART, will definitely have to look into that further, it sounds amazing.
Side note, it's amazing just how much the treatment of PTSD has changed in the past 15-20 years. Had a friend come back from Iraq with TBIs and a nasty case of PTSD and in the late aughts the VA was just giving him adderall and klonopins.
Yes! Even the recognition of it and how it presents itself, how it can be complex ptsd .. when I was a kid I just remember hearing about "shell shock" and that it made people crazy. There wasn't any compassion from the outside looking in, culturally.
P.S. I'm always happy to give out my therapist's ART info for anyone who wants it. I even give it to patients I treat who were in car accidents. She works remotely, though I don't know about insurance stuff across states if that's a concern. Sometimes people can get amazing results from just one session.
They called it 'soldier's heart' with Civil War veterans, but yeah nobody understood it. One of my uncles fought in Vietnam, from the sounds of it he likely had PTSD from that but nobody talked about it until he'd been dead for twenty years.
Thank you, I'll keep that in mind. Not optimistic that'd work from this far away but we'll see once the new year is here.