Suppressing or reprogramming PTSD symptoms

Has anyone with PTSD been able to successfully cope with their symptoms during combat? Is it even possible to overcome it if you're having flashbacks in the middle of a war or combat situation with training or therapy?

Any fellas here who have been in active combat who has experience with this? If you're prone to freezing up when the fight or flight reflex kicks in how do you force your mind to snap out of it?

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  1. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Have you tried not being a pussy?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      That's really helpful homosexual why don't I shoot at you while you watch your friends being exploded into red mist and chunks and you can tell me again how manly and brave you are

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Maybe next time don’t fight for ZOG idiot 🙂

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      trying too hard to be edgy, reddit Black person

      OP start doing weightlifting, look into Starting Strength. Gives your mind a goal and your body challenge. You have to find someone or a group of people you can relate to and talk with. Combining these things will certainly help you. Preferably, get out of the mess and go home, but I guess you probably can't right now.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        I'm safe in the states right now but my issue is that I tend to freeze up and get really bad flashbacks and anticipate being in armed combat sometime in the future and need to be able to overcome it to stay focused when the time comes. I'm coping with life okay for now but I absolutely need to be able to stay mission oriented under gunfire and when the adrenaline kicks in.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Depending in your age you may very well see armed wombat in the future. Bodies will be needed to field weapons in the coming global battle. Prepare your anus for the draft.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >armed wombat
            I'm terrified just thinking about it.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Spoken just like the moronic straw man doge

  2. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I haven't but my uncle who I'm close with has dealt with it.
    Ironically he got the most benefit for his mental health by getting into milsim airsoft. I can't imagine why but he was noticeably better after a few years of doing it.
    Good luck OP. Work on your mindfulness and stay hydrated and eat better food. Get 8 hours of sleep too. It's amazing how bad a lack of sleep is for your body. My doc described it like this; depriving your body of sleep on a regular basis is comparable to smoking cigarettes and always being jet lagged. It causes hormonal problems too which could be a root cause for you.

  3. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Daily reminder low iq individuals are more suspectiblr to ptsd

  4. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Drink, heavily.

  5. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'm some weird super autist who is strangely able to overcome stressful violent situations that might give PTSD to others because perhaps I don't really understand the danger I'm in. Meanwhile my bullying and socially awkward childhood is 10x more of an issue. Preterites I guess?

    >see a guy's head splattered on the ground
    >huh. Well I guess that sucks. Anyways.
    >go home and spend 4 hours in bed thinking about the girl who rejected and mocked me in front of the class 6 years ago.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I'm the exact same way. I'll literally forget that I was in a mass shooting, but will never forget my weird social frick ups

  6. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I've been fighting in Donbass (I'm a ukie) in 2014-2015, got wounded, demobbed, and pretty much life has been living hell since.
    I am at war again and I hate it here every second and want to go home, but it's the first time I feel remotely like a human being since then.
    Didn't have any sort of usual symptoms aside from not sleeping like a normal person would, actually doing okay for what it's worth.

  7. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Go for the new therapies that use mdma/ketamune/psilocybin, extremely effective when done with a proper licensed professional

  8. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    The basic principle with conditioned trauma responses as that you suffered a trauma in the past that you were unable to properly process at the time, that trauma response then gets re-triggered inappropriately in other contexts causing your problems. Because you never processed or resolved it when the trauma actually occurred you don't know how to resolve it when it is re triggerred.

    So, the trick is to wait for your trauma response to be triggered and then resolve it in a healthy way. To do this keep in mind that you are activating your fight or flight response and you need a fight or flight resolution, both of which are naturally associated with physical excercise. So when you are triggered, remind yourself that you are having an inappropriate natural trauma response and that it is completely ok that that is happening. It is not a sign of weakness or failure, its simply a helpful biological process that has been poorly conditioned due to circumstances beyond your control. Then go for a run or hit the gym while thinking about what happened to you. Repeat as necessary until your body runs through the processing and resolution without any further conscious input from yourself.

    This works for all forms of trauma by the way

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      As a follow up just to explain this a bit. Our biology evolved systems to deal with the sorts of trauma and stress we are likely to encounter in our day to day lives as hunter gatherers. These are things like encountering a predator, a dangerous weather event, a fight with a rival and that sort of thing. What all of these have in common is that the stress is very localised in time (i.e. if you can kill or escape it the threat is gone) and there are specific actions you can take to achieve this resolution (flight, fight or freeze).

      When you are exposed to a traumatic stress that you can't destroy or escape your body doesn't know what to do with itself and feeds in to its normal stress response, which is waiting for a resolution. This gets all bundled up with psychological stresses like guilt and shame which feed back into the response system making everything worse.

      Resolve the stress response with physical activity while attempting to deal with the psychological context at the same time.

  9. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Does anyone have those screenshots of the threads where people described this weird stress position technique to cause the user to shake which would supposedly eliminate most PTSD effects? Something about the shaking being similar to the shaking experienced after adrenaline dumps which reset some kind of neurological trigger

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Does anyone have those screenshots of the threads where people described this weird stress position technique to cause the user to shake which would supposedly eliminate most PTSD effects? Something about the shaking being similar to the shaking experienced after adrenaline dumps which reset some kind of neurological trigger
      Be kind, dont troll the OP with "literally shaking will cure your PTSD" meme 🙂

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