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DirtyDanTheManlyMan t1_j5zt6j9 wrote

How do you treat this without going into therapy for like 3 years

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Pfeffer_Prinz OP t1_j5zucej wrote

I really recommend therapy, there's nothing wrong with it and almost everyone I know says it was the best investment they ever made in their life.

But if you really want something shorter term, EMDR is shown to be very useful, and it doesn't need to be coupled with talk therapy (though it works great if it is).

But make sure your EMDR practitioner is familiar with Complex PTSD. The treatment was developed for regular PTSD, and so it helps a lot with singular traumatic incidents, but prolonged trauma requires a slightly different approach (basically just slower and easier).

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Lileowastaken t1_j61k0r5 wrote

Self therapy. Building a support network around you. Figuring out your symptoms, triggers, and so on and working on them.

It worked to help me, though I have recently started counselling. Still too early to say how helpful counselling is though.

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DirtyDanTheManlyMan t1_j60kakq wrote

Therapists don’t prescribe you pills, that’s what a psychiatrist does. I know this because all my family members are pillheads who’ve been tricking psychs since I was a baby

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