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Sorry to be to be so late to reply, but I was out of town last week. Massage helped me so much that I went to massage school and am now a massage therapist. Both getting and giving massage has helped my PTSD so much I want to shout from the roof tops! For me what has helped resolve alot of my PTSD is talk therapy, meds and massage in combination is what finally helped me into the longest, highest functioning period of my life, which is still going on. This is what worked for me, it may not work for everyone. We all have different paths. margaret mryan <mr…@gorge.net> wrote in message
news:ssdgimlfoctq35@corp.supernews.com… > Does anyone have any information or personal experience in the use of > massage therapy to help in overcoming PTSD? This would
have something to do – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> with mind/body work and getting rid of buried emotions through massage.
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Does anyone have any information or personal experience in the use of massage therapy to help in overcoming PTSD? This would have something to do with mind/body work and getting rid of buried emotions through massage.
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i have had quite a lot of body work in my life, still have regular massages which focus on some recent leg/foot injuries i sustained, more or less damage control. my experience with massage/etc and ptsd was this: for me, allowing the impact of the past into my present life has to be a very very controlled thing, like there would be only certain channels to which i could tune for that information. having an emotional reaction appropriate to the realization of what happened in the past was never a problem for me, hoo-boy, no way. with body work, i would sometimes have rather violent emotional and physical reactions when i let my defenses down enough to let something surface spontaneously. it felt terrifying, as if i were compelled to now live it all over again. i prefer the limited way i do this to the induced way of body work. there is so much stored in our bodies and muscles and skin. a touch here, a rub there, all very innocent and wham, i was off the table, cowering in the corner, crying and screaming like a maniac and intensely embarrassed. i like to do my emoting alone or with someone i truly know i can trust. so i guess i am saying: be careful. perhaps it would work for you. or perhaps it would ultimately scare you shitless. i want to own my body now, since it was taken away from me, the sovereignty (sp?). it works well for a lightweight feelgood sort of thing, though, relaxing knots and helping me take care of injured legs. i pay for it out of pocket, to give you some idea of how much i value it. several times, though, the switch has accidently been touched and whamm, there i am, in new orleans, with an unrecognizably childlike body, and here are all these grownups, etc. movement is good for privately working out ptsd stuff for me. i used to be a ballet dancer until i had cumulative injuries and had to stop at age 50 (40 years of dancing, 40 years of owning my body and its music!) i have missed that. dancing still in my head, carole mryan <mr…@gorge.net> wrote in message
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