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Comorbid symptoms-concurrent response-disoerders
Unfortunately most of us, if not all experience a complex range of symptoms from various psycological responses in relation to experiences we've had, using the term resonse as opposed to disorder, which is under current debate to be updated in dsm 6 due to the negative implacation that a disorder is a negative hat to hang as it implies that it is an uncorrectable condition, that being said, i choose to use the response terminology, as personally i feel that being referred to and treated as being disordered by clinicians in the past did nothing but hinder any truly positive lasting advancement in recovery, until latley i've been working with a very positive team and a fantastic trauma recovery specialists focused on healing through mindfulness, grounding, meditative practice, nutrition, situational psycological response education, and at times quite uncomfortable participation based positive sociological exposure-experience exersizes to modifiy neural pathways and neural plasticity, i've only been involved in this program for about six months now, substance free, and am amazed at how much it has helped in such a short period of time, i'm 47 years old and i come from a background of extensive early trauma, homelessness, and addiction, i've worked in the community as peer support worker, in home support worker, advocate, and residental program community support worker focused on a no barrier-harm reduction, housing first mandate, am currently on long term disability stress leave after exposure to several triggering incidents that led me back to the state of a human puddle, after being put on leave when i attempted to access help, in the community i was serving, i was to find it quite difficult as a worker to obtain assistance, from the org i worked for and the union, finding me very quickly losing my place and back on the street, using again to cope and wandering around in a psycotic, delusional, disassociated state til i was convinced to move to another community where i was able to access services, got connected with help in recovery, and settling my insurance company based union disability long term leave claim, which is boggling for all at the least, and assisstance in finding housing, in essence all i'm really trying to put out with all this i suppose is don't give up, there is quality help out there, unfortunately sometimes it's not very easy to come by,
Stay up people, there is hope, good luck.
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