friends with ptsd- how's it going? does anything help?

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9. without a doubt meditation is helpful

so hard to get the hang, tho.

but as an update, we have finally discovered that it is not a "mental illness" it is a "brain illness". a stupider distinction for doctors, between the mind and the brain, there has never been.
this is something that has pissed me off, trying to figure out why i cant sleep, why i am depressed.
if the current theory is correct, both she and i predisposed to seizure disorders, and had enough knocks to set them off.
she has severe bilateral front lobe epilepsy. this wasnt even picked up in neuropsyche testing.

she is medicated, and smiling for the first time in i dont remember.

dont dismiss the effects of brain injury.
when i started counting them up, realized i had a half dozen concussion that no one ever called concussions. small injury kept fritzing in my sleep. finally shut it up, and doing amazingly better.