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Originally Posted by Patrycia-Rose
Many thanks, Seawolf, for your detailed response. Re ‘seeing what is out there and finding what works for you’ has been a 12 year long journey which has got me no where (apart from relieving me of a great deal of cash). The actual trauma was one which went on for a couple of months, culminating in four days of indescribable fear and this was in my adult life, not childhood. The experience left me with two physical symptoms. So far I have been focusing on physical healing modalities such as cranio sacral therapy, acupuncture, homeopathy, flower essences, reiki, EFT, Tapas Acupressure and recently bowen therapy. None of them have made the slightest impact. So working with the inner child c/o this book will be a new angle and I'm quite happy to work alone, prefer it this way as I'm an extreme introvert and it also has the benefit of not costing me anything.
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I'm sorry to hear you haven't had any luck. Your trauma may be complex as it went on for so long. CPTSD is not just about childhood trauma, it's about prolonged trauma including if it just happened in adulthood. EMDR and Somatic Experiencing, and a few others I'm not as familiar with, are currently the most effective treatments for PTSD. I highly suggest finding an experienced trauma therapist who is familiar with current treatments and doesn't use the old ones like the few I mentioned before. If you haven't read it yet, The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk is an important work on trauma healing today. Also I've found a very powerful treatment for PTSD symptoms in Kundalini Yoga at sacredtherapies.com. I've gotten quite a bit of relief from it.
I've experienced complex trauma as it went on all my life until a couple of years ago, and out of desperation sought things that really work because for a long time I've been basically unable to do anything, and have experienced nonstop flashbacks/nightmares but I'm now starting to get better. That's why I like Bessel because he is only interested in treatments that work. Peter Levine's Somatic Experiencing is also showing to be very effective for PTSD. EMDR is also a miracle for many people, even though no one knows exactly why it works, but some have experienced relief after just a few treatments. There's also Neurofeedback. Bessel goes over these current effective treatments in his book. If you did not experience childhood trauma, there's quite a bit of hope for your recovery, because that makes it much more difficult to recover. I hope this helps and that you find some relief soon.
