Why therapy doesn't work for Trauma, PTSD, CPTSD

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[emmalouie]

Being rich helps. Rich people can always try as many services as they can afford until something works. With poor people you're just screwed over your entire life.

[et]

As a therapist, I affirm that everything you are saying is absolutely correct. Therapy often does more harm than good.

[jcleichtnam]

I’m a combat veteran with childhood trauma and I started therapy when I was 44 years old and I didn’t want to feel like I was wasting my psychologist time so every session I did hard work talked about some really deep things that I had once compartmentalized and I thought I was doing my self justice in the sense that this hard work will pay off. I had a very sweet intelligent psychologist and I remember I kept explaining to her that days prior to our sessions with which were weekly and days after our session which overtime pretty much was all the time cause I was going once a week I was in a very dangerous mental state being exposed to this huge trigger which was my therapy sessions once I took control of the direction and my boundaries and therapy I no longer struggle like I used to just like with alcohol AA was not a good choice for me. Sitting around other alcoholics for an hour talking about alcohol was very counterproductive to my well-being. CPTSD Is uncharted territory for a lot of therapist . For the last six years I’ve seen a psychologist once a week for an hour and I can say without any wavering that the most valuable information, insight and path to wellness i found through YouTube, Quora, Reddit and other platforms. Stay well friends!

[VALiantiosous]

This is really solid advice. Thank you. I have been avoiding talk therapy as I find it triggering, taking me days, sometimes weeks to recover. I have also just had some really bad therapists. I like how you don't talk about your trauma with your therapist, you just work on regulation skills. I will definitely reschedule therapy now and make a boundary about not talking about trauma. I also like how you said one needs to work in the body, then the mind to recover. Our society tends to see it as the other way around.

[the_earth_mystic]

Thank you for sharing this Spira, I totally agree. I am a C-PTSD survivor and have been healing in leaps and bounds through Eastern healing such as acupuncture, bodywork, somatics, yoga, meditation and Eastern philosophies like Daoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, grief work, poetry, inner child and shadow work, self-help audiobooks, and Earth-based healing such as cooking, farming, and herbalism. Indigenous societies know how to heal and usually in community, it is this system that we're living in that is making us sick.

[uojlyrm]

Absolutely love how Informative this is!! I’ve been in and out of therapy for years and have always been concerned that there is an issue with me which is why it was never working for me. Turns out I was never healed from my CPTSD and therapy or meds never helped but usually stuck me in this moment of frenzy and numbness. I agree 100% with this video, I’m going to begin focusing on my physical health and meditation to calm myself!! This was a lovely video :)

[vikvegas]

I agree. You can't think or talk or drink your way out of it. It just makes things even worse. I was stuck for 3 years talking and crying to anyone who would listen and it didnt do a damn thing. So now I just fake it. I train for 2 hours a day. I am looking for a job. I walk for miles if i have to. I still dont socialize but i do feel better than I was when I was drunk in a room trying to talk about what happened.

[Ry-izbc]

I’m still feeling the effects from a bad therapy experience. I had no idea how talk therapy could literally alter a persons nervous system.

[Alf]

therapy has always been something that i every time i tried to do i would end up worst because i relieve the trauma over and over again .I dont want to feel it or relieve it .I want the somatic symptoms to go away and talk therapy actually makes my somatic symptoms worse
One think that helps me is lowering my cortisol levels exercising and having a more clean diet .Keto is a diet that suits me the most and also removing people from my life that side with the one who traumatized me because it was family. Going no contact with everyone i know was the best think i have done

[iamaliveyoucantstopnow]

Therapy retraumtised me because most therapists are not trained to help people with trauma.

[zakiyyafarrakhan]

👏👏👏. She knows her stuff, Medication is a crutch and I am against it! My Nervous System is Damaged, suffering with Connective Tissue Disease, Fibromyalgia doesn’t help either, it’s just a big rollercoaster ride that I fight to shake everyday.

[Chill-mmpn]

Talking about trauma has helped me but medication has been immensely helpful for my anxiety, depression and PTSD. I take Sertraline so it really varies from person to person. I take it daily and it's needed for me to function. That doesn't mean that I don't have bad mental health days though.

[coling]

I go to group talk therapy with other survivors of abuse. I find it to be very heplful

[aqadion]

explains why i feel after therapy always worse. and especially before that. I have really bad mood.

[clarnicpsu]

How do your u find a trauma therapist? I can never seem to find one to help me heal.

[sparksoflife]

Does breathwork count ?I do that with my therapist as well as therapy to shift my mindset

[emmabobby]

But you don't want to just be worn out though. You want to be able to connect to the emotions that come up and find healthy ways to deal with them. Also if you tend to disconnect a lot, you want someone who will guide you on how to reconnect safely and witness, guide and validate what you are going through as you reconnect. It isn't something you can do without help. In CPTSD especially, you were often hurt through relationship and it it aslo through relationship that you will heal. A therapist is a safe relationship that has plenty of experience in guiding people through the fog, the pain, the dissociation and the dysregulation. I don't think dissing that (i mean the title of the video alone is a lot) is a helpful thing.

[kjbrocky]

Is it good to cry and express/release your emotions?

[sochelrogers]

Ha ha, is it ADHD or PTSD, who knows?! Meds and any physical body stuff works great for me, love your content, and that hair colour looks fire on you <3

[cybercab]

lol. I’m listening to this while walking