CBT for PTSD: Example of how grounding techniques can be used in therapy

[@johngass4066]

Wow! I suffer from early life PTSD and recently received Cognitive Analytic Therapy. Unfortunately, I never felt listened to, much less understood or given any useful support. This video is not only helpful in terms of a new technique I can, and will, try, it also serves as a timely reminder that good therapists and effective treatments are out there somewhere.

[@JudithJohnsonphd]

+John Gass Thank you for watching and for this feedback John! I will pass it on to the therapist.

[@johngass4066]

I doubt I'm the right person to give you an authoritative reply but, for what it's worth, here's my take on it. I see PTSD as most likely coming from a single, but intensely distressing, event. Some people have been affected by a more complicated cocktail of mutually-reinforcing events and this is classified as Complex PTSD. If you think you might fall into the CPTSD group, below is a link to a book that I've found enormously helpful and reassuring - although its impact can be so intense that you might find you can't read beyond the first chapter. However, it resonated with me so strongly that, as much as it overwhelmed me, it validated me. For the first time, it gave me a context for my darkest moments and validated my past and present experiences of the world. For anyone who thinks they're suffering from mental ill-health, I strongly recommend you find someone who can support you on your journey; entwined maybe, but certainly not entangled… someone who is there only for you, unselfishly and non-judgementally supporting you on your journey back to a balanced, sustainable life. I hope this helps. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00HJBMDXK/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

[@Kash_Tastee]

John Gass early life PTSD also. Good therapists? Somewhere perhaps. I'm not convinced that this therapist and her clients (I'm in the US. We have to pay a medical professions if we so much as sneeze) aren't actors. Gaining so much insight in one session? I don't know. After 21 years of therapy, meds, hospitalization... her clients seem to make more progress in the length of a KZbin video than most do in decades. Also, she doesn't seem to respond to comments all that much... suspicious at best. Even better, I wish you all the best. This is no way to live

[@thehulk3355]

Hi there you need a therapist who does the havening technique. Look it up on you tube. Don't underestimate its simplicity it does work. Get a therapist to do it with you for best effect.

[@MrSongwriter2]

EMDR worked amazing for me. Turned the flashbacks and hyper awareness and especially invasive images down massively till I could sit without been completely back in the trauma and distress For extreme distress whilst in the middle of the flashback you can simple do 5 things you can see, hear/touch in the room

[@macmerc1556]

What an excellent video. Such a lovely girl who has clearly been through a dreadful experience and a very understanding, gentle therapist. I wish her well for the future.

[@GlitterEnby]

Grounding makes so much more sense to me now. Thank you! That was really helpful.

[@JudithJohnsonphd]

+Jane May Thank you for watching and for your feedback Jane. I have passed this on to Cat who was delighted to hear you found it helpful.

[@cindymartin-campbell8840]

After experiencing childhood trauma and a more recent major TBI, techniques like this have been very helpful. The more I was willing to trust my therapist and physician the effectiveness jumped significantly. I’m naturally suspicious and yet when I was desperate enough from ptsd I finally surrendered to creating trust. EMDR has been profoundly helpful as well. After being completely disabled by physical and mental trauma I started investigating scientific modalities around neuroplasicity. I want anyone who is willing to listen to know that I have been a pretty stubborn student and I lost everything I owned including relationships over the years due to it, I have lived in an academic background and so for a non believer like me to have remarkable results, I want to give you hope: Your brain and spirit can absolutely heal. You are mailable no matter the trauma or your age.

[@FeelingShred]

The problem is that most "therapists" don't know jack shit about trauma because they didn't experience it themselves, so it's really hard to overcome the lack of trust

[@philiphammar]

thank you for writing this, really needed to hear it.

[@RockDove5212]

@@FeelingShred that's it exactly! You've just helped me understand why I don't trust therapists and feel it's such a fake interaction. I feel like they haven't a clue .

[@FeelingShred]

last december was when it "clicked" for me and I IMMEDIATELY noticed difference... I can now focus on tasks at hand again, I don't crumble at the slightest sign of opposition, I can engage in confrontation, I play with people's minds (it's so fun but also so dangerously addictive, use it in small doses, motherfuckers love to be humiliated, people are so weird, they test you all the time) And another thing I noticed: once "depression" was out of the picture my brain entered this interesting "Mockery" state, I mock everything and everyone now, it seems like Mockery and Humor is the Natural state of mind for humans... I need to research more on this, using myself as bait of course

[@TommyBowerscoasters]

Actually, grounding and centering saved the day for me on several occasions. Great work!

[@authenticlivinghypnotherap6121]

wonderful real life example and great tool for anyone to take home and use and "fill in the gaps" for their own circumstances

[@nasirmehood3110]

You have made it very easy in terms of applying this grounded technique to such kinds of traumatic experiences. It's quite useful

[@JudithJohnsonphd]

Glad it was helpful!

[@LukeWeb1992]

I was attacked 10 years ago and left with a life long injury. I was diagnosed with depression... at the time I was having nightmares, I have never felt good since. I'm struggling to do my job, feel like my brain is shutting down from bad memories. not getting the help I need. As a young male its hard to ask for help. Then when you do get the courage to ask for help I am not taken seriously.

[@ASMinor]

I am an avid #MentalHealthAwareness advocate and performer, and I love this so much. I travel the country trying to bring that awareness on stages, in classrooms, hospitals, and on my KZbin channel, so I get excited when I see other advocates. 💙❤

[@robertas100]

Grounding definitely. During trauma or chronic stress the nervous system (primarily important) is shocked, the person is shaken to the core, "losing ground", somehow uneasy as if not quite "there", not quite him/herself (as body/entity), as if almost died, really. It is some all-over physiological tentativeness/malfunctioning, extending to psychological-neurological... Somehow one must be re-established and re-stabilized fully in the body physical, the nervous system be fortified and the whole biochemistry restored to order. "Proper" food, exercising, supplements, outdooring, beneficial socializing (supporters), restoring believing in and will to living. One session does not do, this is committed and dedicated "work" and self-work, to regain a positive mind/psyche.

[@elliotsimpson-rooke917]

The majority of people who speak about PTSD professionally have no personal experience of PTSD itself outside their relationship with the people they treat within their profession. Every time I try and seek peace through one of these videos I feel frustrated, misunderstood and patronised, though I realise this is no fault of the speaker - they have never had to endure this pain, confusion, paranoia and the stress it puts on their relationships with the people around them. I feel as though I should write about PTSD first hand so that sufferers alike can communicate with those from their own pain-felt community

[@therabbithat]

I am sorry for what you went through and I like your idea of writing about your experience to support other survivors. I have met dozens of psychotherapists in my training and all of them had suffered horrific traumas in their lives, although PTSD is one expression of trauma and not all of them had that specific expression, but some did. A common response to trauma is to start comparing your suffering to that of others, this separates you from others and makes it harder to get support

[@RockDove5212]

Absolutely agree, I feel anger and mistrust towards therapists like this. Something cold and patronising, and ridiculously insulting, " suck a sweet."

[@MrJohnnynapalm7]

A very useful insight which helped deepen my understanding on this important topic.

[@savvy3869]

CMHC Grad Student: Initially I felt as though the counselor was doing a bit much of the "standing and writing" approach which may make a client feel like they are in a classroom with a teacher and could make them feel incongruence/inequality in the session as far as the roles go; however, I feel as though this was a great representation of the "Sharing Information with Clients" counseling technique in order to put things into perspective. I also think that maybe if she had given the client a pen and paper to write the graph out and think of the representations for the senses (that they went over), she would have used the "Directive" counseling technique and that would've put the session even more into the clients hands rather than the counselor being the focal point during this part of the session. Overall, this video helped though so thank you!

[@Yasminedavisben]

hi ! Thank you for this amazing video ! Gratitude ! Namaste

[@sophiel1708]

EMDR is really good for PTSD. I’ve tried it :)

[@Slarti]

This is very helpful. One question, because it's the way I learn and remember things - I take it this is connected with mindfulness and being present in the moment, so by cultivating more of a habit of coming back to the present we experience less dissociation?

[@SelfLoveCeo]

Very helpful, thank you

[@ivispark3780]

I really love this technique!

[@dinaazzam3646]

I cant find one single paper about using grounding as a cbt technique. Is grounding really a CBT technique per se?

[@lauraolivas2682]

I was wondering the same thing... I am doing a paper on CBT and anxiety

[@ewinedm9250]

No - you use a grounding skill and then follow it up with a specific technique like CPT or PET. The final step is to implement the skills into their life.

[@palmina77italiana]

Please keep studying this topic and spreading awareness. CPTSD is complex and there is not much help for this

[@nolagatto2136]

I'm so dissociated. I hate it. I wish this kind of thing would work

[@danieseifert]

Hey, I see you! I feel this. I have dissociative ptsd/cptsd from multiple childhood rape and seriously I do not control what my thoughts say to me or how I react to most things now. I have been known to black out into a totally different type of person and get vicious/suicidal/violently ready to fight my way out of anything that is setting me into that state of fear/hate/rage/pain, fuck any type of defensive stance someone else makes me take can sent me into a straight up psychosomatic seizure. So my body literally looks and feels like it's having a seizure but it's not something that is a true ekg, or eeg I can't remember the name of the brain waves test they did on me to prove I have this psychosomatic seizures to sexual assault and domestic abuse. It's very odd, so telling me to look at the room I've grown up in after waking up from rape is like asking me to go list five things I can look at to distract myself from rape when I was raped next door to my house at ten. How am I supposed to think my way out of that?! Bullshit. There's probably another twin I ate in the womb or something that lives in my pineal gland.... but good luck. CBT annoys the shit out of me already. I'm doing it to try to learn to calm down but I feel like I'm arguing with an my ultra mind handler who just wants me to behave and stop wanting to chew my rapists into dog food.

[@Kev80ification]

Good job!

[@XOXO-mb2vh]

The nightmares are the worst because im in it. There's a whole world going on outside of wakefulness for me. I hate it cause it's not real and it persist my whole life.Im just at its will. I have to ground by taking a shower and 'resetting'. Water really seems to help me. I keep it to myself because it sounds like a nothing burger to anyone not experiencing it. So I just try not to sleep.

[@gotama570]

Thats good,its working

[@jaywhite5142]

Handy if Sarah doesn't sleep with a dentist then (the sugar in mints); very arguable how PTSD does/nt interfere with day to day life at 'higher' end of the dissociation scale

[@DarayaVahu]

The therapist looks a bit like Avril Lavigne, right?

[@maxbarkeryoutube]

yessss

[@conleycd]

I think it would just be better to treat the trauma with CPT or PE rather than doing all this work on the consequence of the trauma.

[@heu-uaigimata164]

Can you help me too please ... i have PTSD for long time until now ... pleaseee... pleaseee... pleaseee

[@vadimtroshkin6323]

shut up, swallow your PTSD

[@misha5570]

@@vadimtroshkin6323 be nice

[@lamexanna7345]

so asmr

[@thehulk3355]

The reason that CBT does not work for PTSD is because PTSD is a physical brain injury. The havening technique and BWRT Brain working recursive therapy will work to remove PTSD and complex trauma. I recommend a therapist that practices one of these therapies. Good luck.

[@Mark_1974]

The hulk care to explain your comment, any evidence to support your claim ? If PTSD is a physical brain injury then surely no talking therapy will help.

[@Mark_1974]

rabbitwho I fully agree, TF CBT is effective which is why I was wondering why the Hulk was so sure it does not work.

[@conleycd]

Except that CBT both CPT and PE for PTSD is highly effective and fast. When you post garbage like this you cause people to lose hope - so don't do it.

[@kathymyers7279]

I think it’s great that some can go through things like this and find a therapist, GO to them for treatment and then pay for it. Most of us just get on with it because we have bills to pay. Jerez talk about pampered. Thanks for the generosity of deciding to put this on utube, I recognize that. God bless you. How about car crashes, miscarriage, toxic mold poisoning, adultery, addiction and rejection? Looking forward to further videos. I hope this poor child survives her horrific trauma. Glad she made it and if she gets through this she’ll have some tools for her hangnail or a bad dream.

[@EH-wi9dt]

You OK?

[@abdurahman224]

Complicated,,,!

[@unitedservice2033]

a lot of talk but she never says this worked for her, is she just reading this from a book because I do not hear her saying she uses these techniques to help herself. 51 years of dealing with severe multiple PTSD events with multiple TBI's. this was a useless technique for me.

[@HayatFaqeer]

There are many jobs we can do. Tour guide, translating books about CBT from other languages and hide the book. I am intrigued by Britain education system which does not advise to communities because of white racism. Will britain ever appoint black British in parliament.

[@vadimtroshkin6323]

cannot take it anymore

[@misha5570]

Please hang in there i know how unbareable it can be

[@krool1648]

Therapist in this video is hot.

[@XRXONE]

Kelley Two Feathers agree mate

[@vadimtroshkin6323]

she is as hot as my old shoe

[@asmeraertra2628]

How do you mean

[@ky024]

stone man what the hell?