>>19076943 Today is PTSD Awareness Day. If you or someone you know is considering suicide, free, confidential support is available now.
I witnessed my father and brother being murdered at the age of 6. Growing up with PTSD was no joke. My literal sanity was locked away inside so much dead emotion that I dissociated and became essentially a living robot. Shitty thing is that while you're stuck in that never-ending fight-or-flight state your brain stops processing many of the non-essential functions that have developed over the years. Those functions, if not used, remain until sanity is restored and the function gets processed. In the mean time, they haunt the person. These are what are reffered to as "voices".
EMDR is a highly successful and efficient method of reversing the effects of PTSD. After 33 years EMDR helped me get back on to the path to living a normal life. If you know someone who is suffereing from PTSD or nearly any emotional illness, let them know there is a way out of it.