Therapists reactions to PTSD

 Very interestingly I was reading about treating PTSD patients and it is so interesting and I have the right temperament for it.  Often they are numb to the large indiscretions in their lives, but they can get angry at the therapist for things they project.  Those things never rub me the wrong way. I guess the thing is that I can correct it in the office and help them grow.  I was reading that most therapists loath treating PTSD patients because of them finding them the most ungratifying patients to treat, finding them vexing, difficult and ungrateful.  I never feel this way, so I am in the right place.

"Because [complex PTSD patients] tend to have physiological reactions to  to triggers of traumatic reminders, these patients are prone to experience slight irritations as emergencies and blame people in their surroundings for the way they feel.  Hence these patients while numbing and dissociating in the face of real violations, often experience minor frustrations within the therapeutic relationship as violations.  As a consequence this patients are most at risk for being abused by their therapists and by those in the medical profession and reciprocally to be experienced by those in the medical profession as abusive, ungrateful and manipulative" (Van der Kolk, 2008).  Bessel Van der Kolk is my mentor in this field.  So I guess the thing is that I am the right person to see if you have trauma, I love these people, I care for them, and I DO NOT see them in this way, "abusive, ungrateful and manipulative".  I find it disgusting that when people who have been victimized reach out for help, the very help they reach for abuses them and loathes them.  The whole picture is wrong Ann.  People get victimized, society shuns them and they have to climb the mountain themselves, unless they get lucky, and the people they turn to have a strong proclivity to abuse them.

I don't think people really get the strong spine I have and how strong it has to be.

I love working with people that have been traumatized, and you know, every conference I go to, including the EFCT one, I hear, don't take on too may trauma patients, they exhaust you overwhelm you etc.

Honestly we need more therapists with the type of temperament that I have, with the knowledge I have.  Does that make sense.  Or maybe we just need me? haha