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hello? anybody here? ptsd troubles.
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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 420885" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>This forum is mainly for parents of troublesome children but I am sure anyone is welcome! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p>Your phrase "I feel a prisoner of my own mind" is very interesting... I am a Buddhist practioner of some years. Buddhism teaches (and people can investigate for themselves to see whether they think it is true!) that the mind is where happiness and unhappiness are created, not outside in external events. Sometimes things that have happened in the past, particularly traumatic events, keep coming up in the mind, in a sometimes obessional way. It is one of the characteristics of PTSD that the traumatic event or events keep being "replayed" like this. Anything that would break the power of the trauma and its hold over the mind would therefore be welcomed. I think that without external supports, meditation on its own might be insufficient in cases of trauma such as yours. A two-pronged approach of therapy (I have heard good things of EDMR) and meditation would seem wise... </p><p>If you begin, in daily life, to observe your present suffering as arising in the mind, as just being a thought and that the thought is not "real", not relating to anything that is real now, that can be very helpful in breaking the power of suffering... To bring yourself back to the present, observing the mind in this way - and that is all meditation is, often using the breath as a focus - is also really helpful. What are you feeling NOW, what is happening NOW? </p><p>All these things are trainings, they do not happen overnight. But bit by bit you can free yourself from even the most terrible memories.</p><p>Please don't take anything I have said as an advertisement for Buddhism - I am really just talking about bringing yourself into the present without any religious connotation! </p><p>Go well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 420885, member: 11227"] This forum is mainly for parents of troublesome children but I am sure anyone is welcome! :-) Your phrase "I feel a prisoner of my own mind" is very interesting... I am a Buddhist practioner of some years. Buddhism teaches (and people can investigate for themselves to see whether they think it is true!) that the mind is where happiness and unhappiness are created, not outside in external events. Sometimes things that have happened in the past, particularly traumatic events, keep coming up in the mind, in a sometimes obessional way. It is one of the characteristics of PTSD that the traumatic event or events keep being "replayed" like this. Anything that would break the power of the trauma and its hold over the mind would therefore be welcomed. I think that without external supports, meditation on its own might be insufficient in cases of trauma such as yours. A two-pronged approach of therapy (I have heard good things of EDMR) and meditation would seem wise... If you begin, in daily life, to observe your present suffering as arising in the mind, as just being a thought and that the thought is not "real", not relating to anything that is real now, that can be very helpful in breaking the power of suffering... To bring yourself back to the present, observing the mind in this way - and that is all meditation is, often using the breath as a focus - is also really helpful. What are you feeling NOW, what is happening NOW? All these things are trainings, they do not happen overnight. But bit by bit you can free yourself from even the most terrible memories. Please don't take anything I have said as an advertisement for Buddhism - I am really just talking about bringing yourself into the present without any religious connotation! Go well. [/QUOTE]
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