Shannon's Journal Discussion Thread, Vol. 8

[DarthXedonias]

I’d be interested in a super duty OGSF3/E7 designed for C-PTSD. I’m pretty sure I have C-PTSD and OGSF 5.11G and E6 5.11G were extremely helpful. Adding C-PTSD support can only make it kick even more ass.

OGSF v3 is "super duty".  Anything focused on PTSD would just be modified to focus on dealing with that and it's branches more specifically. But one thing I have to point out is that withdrawing into the mind to avoid or gain more "control" over "reality" sounds an awful lot like Resistance type #22.

@ShannonI took a look at the list again. Is the reason why Type #22 is blacked out now is because you feel like you have suffciently dealth with that type of resistance in 6G? I just noticed that type and a few others are blacked out. So just wanted to know if that's the case since you seemed to have edited in back in Janaury. I haven't tried OGSF in 6G yet but I will be trying it within the next few days. 

I did want to ask one other thing, if you become aware of the tactics your subconscious uses in order to get around executing does that knowledge in of itself help the effectiveness of not resisting? Since you know now what to is self sabotage and you can work on not doing it if possible?

[Benjamin]

Actually thanks for giving that information. I already knew that C-PTSD isn't from one traumatic event but no one explained it as treating everyday life as a constant threat. That actually explains a lot of my behavior honestly. It also explains the seeking refuge in an imaginary world since the outside world isn't "safe" at all. I guess also if Shannon wanted to make that PTSD sub eventually he should make put something in there to rewire the nervious system back to a healthy state. At least this explains more why everything has been such a uphill battle for me to enact any change.

Damn, the stuff you've described with daydreaming and now the info on C-PTSD explain alot about how I am too. I've done alot of study and work with trauma but haven't specifically looked into C-PTSD.

I'm very curious how OGSF v3 will go with it, for both of us. I'll be using it within the next month or so.

[Have at ye]

From a more psychoanalytic perspective, C-PTSD could be construed as an amalgam of various neuroses that have turned into a nasty *knot* that's very difficult to unravel, and the proverbial knot causes one to employ various defence mechanisms, some of which might be psychotic by nature (f. in. dissociation - like extensive daydreaming and the like).

So the trauma healing/removal aspect of OGSF v3 should be able to help with that, it just may take longer than with "unknotted", separate traumas.