Brian Klassen, PhD: How to Heal from Trauma and Take Your Life Back - Trigger Avoidance and PTSD

When trauma goes untreated, and trigger avoidance controls behavior, life can become quite small. Veterans can get free effective treatment for PTSD to heal the invisible wounds of war and get back to a healthy lifestyle.

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[VR-kprv]

Oh my goodness: life becomes small! THATS EXACTLY how I describe my life! People who havent "been there" are ignorant of this life experience. PLEASE KNOW this experience is NOT relative ONLY to veterans.

[theologytherapist]

The very first line is a perfect statement "life becomes small". This is such a great description of the feeling that those suffering may experience.

[aaloha]

Life also becomes small bc you have to deal with a lot of petty immature ppl who criticize you for your symptoms and tell you you’re either ‘overreacting’, if you’d ’think positive you wouldn’t have ptsd’ or tell you that if you’d do A-B-C than it would all ‘be alright’ bc it’s ‘in the past’ anyway. And that’s besides the intentional gaslighting, laughing behind your back and all the gossiping. So, no, it’s not just avoiding anxiety, it’s being socially excluded from being treated with respect like a ‘normal’ person, just bc you show ptsd symptoms. 🙏🏼

[thetopcat]

I'm healing slowly, but yeah I've been a hermit for so many years. It's terrible but the worry it could happen again keeps me awake

[ywfupiq]

I cried for years that i want to have a normal life...i suffered in silence with the feeling that nobody understands me.I thought that i am cursed because just hard situations i have had to deal in my life...I remember once that i called a friend crying sharing with her that i don't even have a beautiful moment in my life to say that Summer i was happy, I had fun...😢😢😢I had no ideea about traumas.My entire life was hardships, homeless, unemployed situations that repeted again and again..

[snowcountry]

Life becoming small! Yes that’s so true but it is hard to realize it. You can only know in retrospect or until your therapist points it out over and over again. But thank you! That’s a very good point. I live in a small world but trying my best to gradually experience more freedom.

[Acemethyst]

For me I have felt as if my world was once so limitless and wide, then I went through some hard stuff, and I felt like my world had become so very small... so many days I spent pining for how my life used to be, not realizing what was wrong with me...

I'm really glad to know what I've been struggling with and happy to be able to start taking care of it.

[mxqfvqk]

Snapped in half forwards backwards controlled against will...not allowed to fight forward but restrained from punching/kicking...revoked from work from collegiate studies ruled out off from...depleted of a bloodline against control...there is war...you need life...bright shining joy/cheerfulness...life and light...

[duffythegamer]

Please take this horrible feeling away that hurts every second I’m awake

[proper.role.model.]

yes, I started avoiding anything that would trigger me. I isolated myself and slipped into a depressive state of mind. Its not good. Slowly getting myself out there but at my own pace and comfort,

[Jjejdh]

I’m 22. No friends…pushed everyone out. I go to work but SO HARD to socialize and trust anyone. I come home and THATS it. I was in a toxic relationship that made me overwhelmed at the moment that I felt numb and couldn’t feel but still felt a cloud over my shoulders. Now a year later after the break up I am now all of a sudden memories popping back into my head. These aren’t pretty memories either. I can’t talk about them to my mom bc she starts to get nervous. My therapist app. Isn’t until a month from now. So I’ve called 988 a few times…not because I was in the verge of *** but because i couldn’t get those memories out of my head and I felt like banging my head and screaming. I do think about *** but I know deep down I don’t want to.

[nathananderson]

This is one of the channels that gave me the courage to start my YouTube channel 10 months ago about self development. Now I have 1, 964 subs and > 2k hours of watch time. I know it’s not comparable with others but I’m still proud I started because I’ve been learning so many lessons that I could haven’t learned without getting started in the 1st place.

[sherry]

Repeated cycles of breakdowns and not understanding how what I blocked out to go on I am at 70 just recognizing finally what happened to me. Am starting a new therapy Monday and hoping to heal. Until a few years ago I didn’t recognize it was trauma or how trauma acted.

[idamendez]

Damn he sized me up as well Gulp
PTSD is not just from battle on the field it also can be from trauma from your abusive past gulp man I wonder if I can find this guy seems like he knows how to tackle this and man do I wanna get better

[henrylitwick]

What about bullying. As in over the course of a decade not just a school year. I don’t want to claim ptsd but I was diagnosed last week officially. I catch myself thinking and actually mouthing out what I never got to say. Always on high alert Bc I was publicly humiliated on a daily basis. I clench my jaw so hard and tight I have broke teeth. Then I hear a story of a war vet and feel like a piece of sh*t

[ladyvirgo]

So much this😫I have to come put of this

[TheSuperQuail]

I can't even take a piss without my heart rate going through the roof and punching walls because of flashbacks.

[marckuscuba]

I got ptsd from the cops when the cops came in night and try to arrest my brother i heard my dogs bark i got outside to see what happend but i just heard the radio i cant see them because is dark so everytime my dogs bark now in the night and i go outside i always hear the radios in my head and i start going around the farm like a crazy person

[Tangerinetaco]

I immediately hate the person who triggered me. I don’t know if I’ll ever completely heal, it’s like the past won’t let me go.

[julieverma]

Every time I take my father to the doctor I feel like they hide shit and neglect them until it to late