Posted by oceanbreeze on August 6, 2001, at 19:40:02
In reply to Re: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder » oceanbreeze, posted by Lisa Simpson on August 6, 2001, at 9:06:30
Hi Lisa
I'm sorry also to hear you've had a traumatic event. Cognitive therapy is a treatment approach to mood distrubances and behavior problems. It is quite educational. In cog therapy you learn skills for managing negitive moods and problamatic behaviors. I go 5 days a week to this therapy. Topics include coping with depression, countering depressive thinking, pin-pointing negative cognition (ways we think), identifying distored thoughts, coping with anxiety, problem solving, enhancing motivation, anger management and relaspe prevention.
I've found this to be helping me tremendously. I'm not sure what part of the country (or elsewhere) you are, but I'm in San Diego. On July 15th I OD'd on Xanax (just couldn't take it anymore). The negative images, sights, sounds, smells, you name it. I've also had major depression since my dad's death. I was hopitialzied for six days and I'm now in the cognitive outpatient program. I also see an outside therapist.
Please don't let yourself get to the low that I reached. It was horrible. I'm finally getting the help I need after 5 years of suffering.
There are people out there that understand....it took me 5 years to realize that.
Please respond so I now you're okay.
Jennifer
> Hello - thanks very much for replying to my post (and thanks to Terra, too). I was horrified to hear about your father - that must have been absolutely awful.
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> I nearly died about 2.5 years ago, and I was absolutely out of my mind with terror. I can't get the incident out of my head, even now. And since the incident, I have an awful memory... which seems to be getting worse. And I can't concentrate. I used to be a real ace PC/network support person, but I can't do that job any more.
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> Sorry to be ignorant, but can you tell me what "cognitive therapy" is? And do you find it is helping?
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> Thanks.
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> Lisa
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