Hello all, I am posting today because I haven't written anything in a while. I have been on a ptsd roller coaster but have been doing slightly better since starting this blog, which is AWESOME. I'm still getting triggered and have a lot of anxiety with leaving my apartment but because of Steemit and my followers I've been able to get out of my apartment a little more. I suppose steemit has turned into my support system and I can't be more grateful for that and each one of you. I still don't get out every day but it is slowly improving and I am happy to say I'm getting into to therapy with someone that knows and was specifically trained for PTSD. I can't tell you all how much of a difference that specialized training makes.
As a PTSD survivor I've tried to find over and over and over and over and over an expert that I can afford. I'm getting help from the state right now for 10 appointments so I'm grateful for that. I dont know if my insurance will cover any other appointments after that though and that's a little stressful but I have to be thankful for the little bit that I am getting.
For us PTSD survivors, finding a qualified PTSD doctor can be very difficult. When you see someone that isn't well educated with PTSD they constantly try to diagnose you with all of this other stuff and it gets frustrating because it's all related to the PTSD and shouldn't be an additional diagnosis to mark your mental health history. I have had a good doctor in the past but he's in another state as I have moved. It has taken me roughly 3 years to find this one. I had to get "testing" and all of that to see this new one but it turns out that He understands PTSD better than anyone I've seen and that my friends is a breathe of fresh air. He already has explained some of the things that I already knew and have been trying to explain to other doctors about, but they wouldn't listen. The difference is that he knows and understands that these are parts of PTSD whereas others try to diagnose you with other things and put you on a ton of meds that you don't need. The misdiagnosis sometimes triggers the practioner to focus on that misdiagnosis and not your PTSD and that is exactly the opposite of what we need. My first appointment is next monday and I'm really excited.
