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How Can Severe Anxiety And PTSD Be Treated?
In the last year or so, I ve been diagnosed with ptsd, severe anxiety disorder. I ve been put on disability, which I hate. I am seeing a therapist weekly. I ve asked the therapist how long treatment takes, but his reply is that I ve had 46 years to develop this disorder, it will take a long time to recover if I ever do. I am so sick of being scared but every time I try to step out of my area, it feels like shards of glass running through my body. Everytime I feel threatened, it s like a lightning bolt shooting through me. Do these things ever stop? Does someone like me get back to normal?
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Tue, 4 Jul 2017
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it is psychological problem can consult clinical psychologist for counseling. yoga and meditation may helpyou. be mentally strong and try to over come anxiety by self determination.increase your socialisation. life style change is requered. post traumatic stress disorder can go away by itself but there is a chance of its coming back. you can come back to normalcy.self determination is requered.
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