Hello TiC and BibleLover;
I studied ADHD and a medicine that clinical therapists prescribed is called ritalin. There was a lot of debate of this prescription for children with ADHD.
I'm ministering to a young man that is considering going to seminary and feels led to become a Christian clinical counselor. He had bipolar and PTSD. Isn't PTSD an effect only to those who were in war?
Does anyone have knowledge about this or both?
God bless you all.
bobinfaith PSTD is not only for people that are in war. A lot of misconception revolves around CPTSD and PTSD and what how where why and when people end up with it.
PTSD is any event that is little t or big T trauma that has a significant effect on the individual. Abuse, death, accident, sugery, so on. There is a ACE test that can very much show that you have had trauma in your life. It doesn't identify if you have CPTSD or PTSD but it does tell you that you have been in the perfect storm to have experienced trauma that can lead to these mental health diagnosis, other physical conditions and health issues that contributes to your life FROM constantly being in "fight or flight" mode.
Your body goes through serious of biological, physical, mental and somanic experiences that can actually change your DNA and rewrire your brain and how it functions - in trauma events.
If a person is constantly in a low grade of disregulation for long periods with little t [traumas] along with big T traumatic events - the high probability that PTSD/CPTSD is present [unless they had a stable mentor, parent, sibling, teacher etc that helped them to learn emotional regulate [co-regulation] and developed resilience. Not all people develop CPTSD or PTSD to be clear.
The sympathetic/parasympathetic nervous system isn't wired to be consisently going off.
Children of all ages even babies have experienced trauma eventhough they don't remember, their body does. This was the case with me because it wasn't until my late 30's that I was diagnosed with CPTSD and I never realized why I reacted in the way I did. Now I know. It's a long process of healing, management, prayer, replacing beliefs and asking the Lord to help me when I have flashbacks [especially emotional/memory ones that effect my entire body]. I may not have any recollection of the image/or memory at times but I remember how I felt, and how my body responded in that moment - I will actually be in that same memory that triggers responds to present [eventhough it isn’t happening]. The trigger of trauma alerts the brain warning system of the exact representation of the trauma event that happened in the past and therefore responds as if it's happening now. I will post a very helpful chart for you to see. Keep in mind when this happens significant time needs to be taken to be able to address it and seek help inorder to properly recover and manage - same with vets, doctors, nurses, caregivers and police [who are also active in the line of duty and experiencing very hard and traumatic experiences daily on their jobs].
americanspcc.org
psychcentral.com
www.therecoveryvillage.com
its a gruelling condition.
