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Stop Being Held Hostage By PTSD
(Your brain's running more disaster scenarios than the BBC drama department)

If you're currently experiencing a mental health crisis, please contact:

  • Emergency Services: 999

  • NHS Crisis Team

  • Your GP

  • Samaritans: 116 123

Oh, there you are, your brain running its millionth security check, while you continue your duties as your anxiety's butler, serving up fresh worries on a silver platter. (At least your keeping busy with all that catastrophic thinking, eh?)

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Let's talk about PTSD - and no, we don't mean that time you watched your teenager attempt parallel parking. Though between us, that probably deserves its own diagnostic category. 

What's Actually Happening Up There?

Your brain's basically turned into that overenthusiastic security guard who tackles someone for sneezing too loudly. Sure, it's trying to protect you, but it's got the sensitivity settings stuck on DEFCON 1 for everything from actual dangers to someone dropping a spoon in Sainsbury's. 

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Think of it as your mind's version of having an overzealous butler who insists on checking under every bed for monsters, even though you're 47 and live in Spalding. (Last time I checked, the scariest thing in Spalding was the queue at Iceland on pension day)

What's Your Particular Flavour Of Hyper-vigilance?

  • The Classic Edition
    Standard PTSD - though there's nothing standard about how it feels.
    Triggered by a single event that your brain's filed under "absolutely not, thank you very much."

  • The Director's Cut (Complex PTSD)
    For when life decides to make things extra spicy. Usually from a long-term situation where walking on eggshells was less a careful choice and more an Olympic sport you never signed up for. (And you thought being your anxiety's butler was demanding enough without adding trauma management to your duties)

  • The Out-Of-Body Experience (Dissociative PTSD)
    Ever felt like you're watching your life like it's a slightly boring episode of EastEnders? That's dissociation - your brain's way of saying "I'm just going to step out for a bit". (Except it's less like going to the shop and more floating somewhere near the ceiling). 

What The NHS Offers

(Besides a waiting list longer than the queue for the last Greggs vegan sausage roll)

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  • CBT (Eventually. Maybe. If the stars align)

  • Various medications (Which can help, like putting a plaster on a broken leg - it's something)

  • Talking therapy (Just as soon as they finish talking to everyone who joined the list in 2019)

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How I Actually Help (Without making you chant affirmations or hug trees)

Here at Fantastic Day in Spalding (or via Zoom, because trauma doesn't respect geographic boundaries), I use:

Ready To Demote Your Brain From Chief Of Security?

Let's start with:

  • Free 15 minute chat (no life story required)

  • If we click, you get a booking link

  • Two sessions (£99 each, 90 - 120 minutes)

  • More if needed (but only if actually useful)

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Available in-person in Spalding or online via Zoom (because sometimes leaving the house is as appealing as a wet weekend in Skegness)

Time to show PTSD the door

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"The Past Is A Foreign country; they do things differently there."

- L.P. Hartley (clearly never tried explaining that to PTSD)

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