Overcoming CPTSD

[k1m]

Hi all,
Wondering if there's anyone who's found a way to heal their CPTSD. I'd like to get through it without dying. I love being alive, I love learning, it's a lot of fun. I just can't interact with people anymore. I'm like an emotionless zombie, rotting away while everyone else lives their lives. I'm on medication but that gives me nightmares so I have to sleep in 2-3hr chunks, and I'm shaken for the first hour or so after waking up. I really can't live like this. It's not fair to the people who care about me. I've pushed away some wonderful people out of fear, I get flashbacks, I relive the worst moments every time I fall asleep, I just want it to stop.

 

[Dot]

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[wishingonstars]

I can't offer a solution for most of that because I don't have a solution for myself but for the nightmares I would recommend talking to your doctor or psychiatrist about the possibility of trazodone. It is both an antidepressant and sleep medication and has really helped me sleep through the night, I still sometimes get nightmares in the couple hours before my alarm because the dose is wearing off but it has reduced my PTSD nightmares by around 90%. Also other sleep meds might work too that's just the one I take.

I also second dot about therapy. I haven't actually heard of NARM so I will be looking into that for myself too but EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) and IFS (internal family systems) are both shown to have very positive results for many people with PTSD and CPTSD. I am doing both of them currently and have helped me so much.

Also it sounds like your medication might not be working for you, you would know way more than a stranger who has only read a paragraph about what's going on for you but the first medication I tried for the PTSD made things worse for me so it wouldn't hurt to talk to your doctor about the possibility of trying something else. That being said though don't try adding a sleep med and changing the med you are currently on at the same time.