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Help coping with PTSD

MordredLJ

A question I asked on other websites but haven't had any suggestions yet so thought I would try here:

Does anyone know any good resources for learning how to cope with PTSD (although things related to anxiety and depression are also super useful) when you have Autism or are otherwise neurodiverse? Preferably made by actual autistic people but not 100% necessary.
It's just that I want to work on some of my own difficulties more but feel like help tailored towards autistic people would be infinitely more useful to me.
It can be books, articles, videoes etc. If you have any suggestions I would REALLY appreciate it!

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  • Advice would be different for each individual. Did you have anxiety, depression or a diagnoses of Autism before your trauma ? There are many variables that could be very important in determining the steps to your specific healing. 

    In general though, the advice that @Loz gives in this thread is excellent. Books, advice, counselling and diagnoses will be helpful or necessary for some while others with a different make-up or processing constitution may only find healing alone in their own way or through a combination of the above but the most important aspect is commitment to do so. Effort will always pay off even if you don't feel or think like that at the time. Having experienced pain, it is the body's natural instinct or reaction to avoid it which can play-out in different forms including ; resistance, shut-down, melt-down, confusion, overwhelm etc etc which at the time, can appear to lead nowhere or to more pain. Stick with it.  I am talking about confronting or re-visiting pain or trauma here.

    The only thing I could add to the incredibly sound advice from @Loz is - do whatever it takes for you. 

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  • Advice would be different for each individual. Did you have anxiety, depression or a diagnoses of Autism before your trauma ? There are many variables that could be very important in determining the steps to your specific healing. 

    In general though, the advice that @Loz gives in this thread is excellent. Books, advice, counselling and diagnoses will be helpful or necessary for some while others with a different make-up or processing constitution may only find healing alone in their own way or through a combination of the above but the most important aspect is commitment to do so. Effort will always pay off even if you don't feel or think like that at the time. Having experienced pain, it is the body's natural instinct or reaction to avoid it which can play-out in different forms including ; resistance, shut-down, melt-down, confusion, overwhelm etc etc which at the time, can appear to lead nowhere or to more pain. Stick with it.  I am talking about confronting or re-visiting pain or trauma here.

    The only thing I could add to the incredibly sound advice from @Loz is - do whatever it takes for you. 

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