Post Traumatic Stress?!?


What is it? Why do I feel the way I do ? What can be done ?
Few interesting information & link sites on the subject.

This thread is open to anyone who wishes to add on links, or comments.

Hope this offers insight to those on a complex personal recovery &/or a mutual martial restoration journey.

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Post Traumatic Stress:


Brain Briefings on Post Traumatic Stress.

http://www.sfn.org/index.cfm?

pagename=brainBriefings_postTraumaticStressDisorder#fullsize


Mayo Clinic.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/post-traumatic-stress-disorder/DS00246


Post Traumatic Stress Gateway.

http://www.ptsdinfo.org/


National Centre for Post Traumatic Stress.

http://www.ncptsd.va.gov/ncmain/index.jsp


Assessing Distress.

http://www.ncptsd.va.gov/ncmain/assessment/trauma_exp.jsp


Stress Injury to Health Trauma.

http://www.bullyonline.org/stress/ptsd.htm


Family Doctor.

http://familydoctor.org/624.xml


Trauma Information Pages.

http://www.trauma-pages.com/


BBC-Article on Post Traumatic Stress.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/medical_notes/1079438.stm


PTSD.

http://www.ptsdalliance.org/about_what.html

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American Association For Martial & Family Therapists.

Post Traumatic Stress.


http://www.aamft.org/families/Consumer_Updates/PTSD.asp

The National Center for Victims.

Post Traumatic Stress.

http://www.ncvc.org/ncvc/main.aspx?dbName=DocumentViewer&DocumentID=32364

Just an FYI, this is exactly why Dr. Harley recommends Plan B. He was seeing patients who suffered from nervous breakdowns or years of PTSD from being exposed to the affair long term.

Good FYI. Plan B is PTSD Reduction.


Compassionate humane pro active action plan to regulate, reduce and limit extreme stress.


http://www.marriagebuilders.com/graphic/mbi8113_ab.html


[color:"red"]PLAN B [/color]


[color:"red"] So, to avoid an indefinite period of suffering while a wayward spouse vacillates between spouse and lover, and to avoid rewarding the selfish behavior of having needs met by both spouse and lover, if plan A does not work within a reasonable period of time, I recommend plan B.


Plan B is for the betrayed spouse to avoid all contact with the wayward spouse until the affair has completely ended and the wayward spouse has agreed to my plan for recovery.


In many cases, once an affair has ended, a betrayed spouse makes the mistake of taking the wayward spouse back before an agreement is made regarding marital recovery.


This leads to a return to all the conditions that made the affair possible -- love is not restored, resentment is not overcome, and there is a very great risk for another affair.


Without agreement and subsequent implementation of a plan for recovery, the betrayed spouse is better off continuing with plan B. [/color]

Here is an email Dr. Harley sent to a board member:

When a WS refuses to leave the lover, there are no good options for the BS. At first, plan A is recommended because there is a slim hope (15%) that, with encouragement, a WS will make the decision to leave the lover. But 85% don't do that, even when plan A is implemented perfectly. That leaves two other choices which are both bad. The first is to continue plan A indefinitely, trying to encourage the WS to leave the lover, and the second is to initiate plan B, which is to completely separate from the WS.

The problem with a coninuation of plan A is that it usually leads to severe emotional symptoms, including years of post-traumatic stress disorder, even when the WS eventually returns. Many women that I've counseled actually have nervous breakdowns in their effort to draw their WS back to them. Instead of making the BS attractive to the WS, plan A actually makes these poor women so unattractive that it completely eliminates all hope of reconciliation. And 95% of all affairs eventually "die a natural death." If you do absolutely nothing, they usually end.

So I've recommended plan B rather early in the effort to separate the WS from his lover.
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Plan B doesn't always work, but it does protect you from the intense emotional pain that you could be experiencing day in and day out. Your husband may divorce you, but it won't be because you have implemented plan B. And if he returns to you, it won't be because you have implemented plan B. But if he does return, with a sincere willingness to completely leave his lover and follow our plan for recovery, he'll find a wife who is still sane if you follow plan B.

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Best wishes
Willard F. Harley, Jr.

ML,

Excellent add on!

Excellent resource site for Parents/Children on many relevant diverse topics.


SaferChild.


Families in Crisis.

http://www.saferchild.org/families.htm


Emotional Support & Coping with Fear
(and Helping Your Children Cope)


http://www.saferchild.org/terrorism1.htm