Re: Nutritional Treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

I'm of the opinion that Jurplesman has worked through his/her PTSD with much more than nutritional fixes, whether they wish to admit it or not.  Time and space is a great healer, and discussing it with others helps a lot too, regardless whether those others are professionals or not.  In that process you are admitting that you have pain which is the first step in emotional healing.  To deny the pain will simply continue your condition.  I think that reading books when you can narrow it down to your condition is very helpful too.  That said, one can then find articles outside of the mainstream which are neither researched nor peer reviewed and with them you can prove anything.

I too had a great deal of childhood abuse by adults, sexual, physical, and spiritual.  One of the things I had to deal with is learning whether my PTSD and other pain was real or imagined.  I have many vivid memories from early childhood that I have never forgotten (one in particular goes back to six months of age), some I have repressed.  I learned that memories can be implanted by counselors without their even knowing it and avoided hypnosis like the plague because that's one of the worst violators.  During my reading I think I read about eight books on memory and in the process discovered the False Memory Syndrome Foundation which claims to defend individuals falsely accused of sexual abuse.  Within that foundation there are several who are in fact sexual abusers and are using the foundation to hide behind when in fact there is no clinical diagnoses called false memory syndrome.  During my meditations memories and pictures began to come up which I denied - until they became so real that I re-experienced them.  This happened when a great love left me and I learned that things like that can be a trigger.  I couldn't sleep for more than 20 or 30 minutes at a time because of the horrible nightmares and feelings that I was still being abused.  Anyway, I learned as much as I could about the origin of the PTSD and all the other abuse that I had during childhood and used it in my meditations.  I did get through it all, but it took time and space.  Like I've said before, I'll take my combat and air disaster experiences many times over rather than to once more go through what I experienced in childhood.

Glad you're still keeping at it.

I agree completely with your posting of why some people experience PTSD and others don't.  Deirdre Fay's article is outstanding.  Much of it is what I've learned and experienced.  Yes, you need to have sound nutrition but that's only one small contributing factor in present time and has nothing to do with what happened in past time.