By: gigi gil

gigi gil — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:11:28 +0000

CPTSD can occur in primary caregivers/parents of severely autistic persons who exhibit intracable, prolonged, extreme self-injurious or assaultive behaviors. Witnessing repeated acts of such complex, high risk behaviors, where the person must constantly protect the other person is classic CPTSD, in a situation that is episodic, chronic and acute. It is one of the most undereported conditions facing families raising disabled children with extreme, challenging behaviors which require constant emergency interventions. The constant state of emergency and pressure of providing safety is what leads to CPTSD in primary caregivers. It is also seen in caregivers of dementia patients, who are without relief or respite care. Incessant or disruptive vocalizations often exacerbate the stress loads on caregivers of aging, elderly parents with dementia, further contributing to CPTSD, as auditory overload, insult factors. Imagine being in same room for days without relief, with someone who is screaming and talking nonsense. Or who is biting self. Or slapping the table. It can drive someone nuts. These people need help. Respite. Relief. And so does the patient. There is hope. But don’t expect to get it from most social service agencies or your shrink. Let’s think about this. You spend 29 minutes on the phone, making an appointment, so you can wait 3 weeks, to drive 45 minutes to wait in a doctors office for another 45 minutes, so you can “talk” to someone for 5 minutes, who will send you to the pharmacy, where you’ll wait for another 45 minutes, then drive home and take a pill. NO THANKS. I’d rather punch a hole in the wall or pull chuncks of hair from my skull. No really. Often, talking to “professionals” who never help further exacerbates the trauma in the person’s life. Solution? Here’s the behavioral and medical treatment plan for person’s with cptsd: help them by directing offering physical or financial supports (pay for a maid or nursing hour shifts, make them dinner) to relief them of the overwhelming or insane burdens they carry. IN the case of a soilder, pay for a nanny service and vacation so the soilder and spouse can get away. The military must have some brains by now to figure out that when soilders come home with PTSD, and they are married with kids, the home setting is not going to help, as chaos is exacerbating condition. Thus, instead of sending the poor soilder into some stuffy room where he/she will be tortured by some moronic advice from another barricaded bureacrat/professional, CREATE/ARRANGE RETREATS where soilder and their wives can have FUN and at SAME time, engage in some psychotherapy. The military should have places like this, if they don’t already.

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