Post Traumatic Stress Support Group

with ptsd we numb ourselves out a lot, we do not feel we are living a real world anymore, the trauma has shocked us in a non world, i have read about others who self abuse to feel alive, i found a way for me to feel alive, i do acupuncture, i feel the needles, sometimes more than other times. it is very relaxing for me.

I have often thought of acupuncture. Is it expensive?

Bangbang i get acupuncture on my knees and it only cost my about $60.00 per session and that is with out insurance. It never hurts to get quotes. It never hurts to ask.

( Hope To Cope ) Scott

i use to go to school for acupuncturists, the student rate was 20 $, aarp 12$ then been a senior it was, 8$, I ENJOYED the students very opened minded, good place to take nap and relax. and a captive audience, to listen to me complain. all kinds of reason i went there

I used to take my daughter for acupuncture. Many will charge fees based on income. He charged $60 per session. I sat there with her and it is extremely interesting! the needles are so thin. There are different techniques that they can use to help you relax.

I'd like to learn more about acupuncture, too.

"numbing out" really puts PTSD into words...

You said it ladymaria. I think we all have "numbed out" at times. I was told by my therapist that my mind has developed a way of dealing with stress called dissociating. I do a really good job at it too.

Dissociating scares the hell out of me. The last time, I was driving and had an awful car accident. So, feeling numb is OK, but losing touch with my surroundings isn't. That was in 2005. I asked God to protect me from something like that happening again. Even with the agoraphobia I have, I'm convinced God's love kept me from having a fear of driving, or dying or being physically disabled . It was all like being in a dream. The trigger had happened on Friday, and I was on my way to a meeting about a student. One teacher made a totally insensitive comment and I lost it with her, which I very seldom do.

I thought "about the student and the comment made about her all that weekend.

ConnieinColorado: I've never been in an accident when I dissociate. I function as a robot would in any situation and that is how I get through the dissociating. In fact, no one has ever been able to tell that at the time I am talking to them, I am dissociating at that time. I function like a zombie. On the anniversary of finding my husband dead from a heart attack, I had no choice but to go to the drugstore because I was out of some of my medications for the severe anxiety and depression associated with the PTSD. Since I had found him dead on the living room couch when coming in from work, my mind automatically told me that it was going to happen again. My mind handled it by dissociating and I do not remember the trip to the drugstore, trip home from the drugstore, or anything until almost 3-4 weeks later when I came back to reality. Sometimes this is the only way I can function in a stressful situation.