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QUESTION
Dear Dr. Rhodes, I'm a vietnam vet who has endured certain aspects of the vietnam crises. However, I feel my problems doesn't only persist there. I also served for the arms forces of the air forces which I engage in certain duties that related to conditions that has also begin to taunt me. This and the previous ordeals of intergrated duties has cause emotional and health related problems that doctors only imagines about, yet my health poses a bigger problem to me,since I have to explain how I feel at that certain time. But its the period of when I alone that creates the biggest emotional and mental setback. I do not know nor I have actua learn how to explain medically what I feel the doctors should know. Medical its a sit and listen session that I go through. Personally I feel like so many others in my situation what do I do? Teach myself what other medical professions should know, or wait an x amount of years feeling like an experimental object? I know there are answers that lies in the medical community that can expose a remedy to these questions. I'm speaking to two vey good doctors who understands me as an individual. But, what about me as that person who went through the turmoil,stress, pain and suffering that encounters my behoviour when its unexpected. There are a lot more that I can express but medical terms I can't. Please explain !
ANSWER
I would recommend that your doctors read books on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)and that you and they work together to better understand your condition. Another alternative is to seek out a doctor that has expertise in both PTSD and dissociative disorders and continue your therapeutic journey with someone who doesn't have to learn as much "as they go." You and/or your therapist may also benefit from my tape series on "Traumatic Memory" that is available from my website. I wish the best for you as you continue this journey of healing.
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