How do I help my brother?

Dear woody, I have been labeled to have the same thing as your brother does (PTSD-post dramactic stress,anxiety,depression ). I had a really messed up childhood and as of right now my life is not that together…foster care and a buch of other shi**t going on causes some isues, I have been seeking help though, I see a psychologist twice a week and I don’t think it is helping the guy is awsome and great at what he does but it not helping that much. I still get really depressed and hurt a lot..but I have a better understanding of why it is so hard to break out of and what is going on in my head.

What works the best for me and is helping me the most is my Church family and their suport though it all their endless love and compassion and understanding of what I am going through..and God and his love. The more I read my bible and look to him for answers and not my self the better have felt…and the easier it is getting.

Dealing with a past full of pain is not an easy thing to do at all. Especilliy when It was your family who hurt you the most..I now how that goes..because it was my family who betrayed and hurt me. But the beauty of growing up is that in three months I will be able to pick and choose who I want in my life and who I don’t.

Yoour brother had the power to choose who he allows in his life and who he doesn’t. He is mostly having to deal with his past now because he is finally ready to do that..and it is good. CRYING believe it or not but is one of the best things one can do just cry it all out and you will feel a lot better. Also he should talk about it. exsposure is one of the best things one can do and this has taken me a while to relize some things are really hard to talk about but keeping it incide does not help either. Talking about it lifts a huge burden off your chest and I mean that it can litterly feel as though it has been lifted off of you..

I do not believe psychology holds all of the answers I personaly believe God does. He allows evil in our lives because of free will, and it makes us a stronger better person in the end..it is also what leads most of us to him. It is when we are at our weakest that we cry out to God and he saves us. It is when we are at our weakest that God can uses in the bigest ways.

I will keep you both in prayer.

Just be there for him that really does mean a lot having some one there in whom you trust and care about and whom cares about you is wonderful just to have the open ear and some one who is willing to just listen to you. That at times means more then any thing else.

Good luck and god Bless.