Brad Schipke says PTSD is a serious mental illness that can destroy your life, but it's fully healable. Trauma survivors can recover completely and don't have to stay in pain forever.
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Is PTSD a serious mental illness? I would say yes, it is very serious because it can destroy your life. It has the capacity to destroy somebody's life, but also it can be fully healed. That's the other part of this as well. I'm not just going to be all doom and gloom and say, yes, PTSD is terrible, it will ruin your life. Yes, it is terrible. Yes, it is very serious, but you can come back from it and you can heal it 100%. So yes, it is serious, but it does not have to be serious forever. You do not have to be in pain forever. And that's what you and every other trauma survivor needs to hear, is that you can heal from it. If you want to learn tools on how to Actually process the trauma, make sure to subscribe for longer videos where I can go into more depth on the actual process to heal.