Deeply personal post. I got a diagnosis I didnt see coming…but I shoud have. #thejobdoctor #realitycheck #depression #mentalhealthtok #ptsd #anxietyrelief

Well, this is a deeply personal post. As many of you know, this last year has not been easy. I've gotten to a point that it's really hard for me to leave the house, driving is almost impossible, sleepless nights, nightmares about the end of the world, finally I was diagnosed with PTSD. And I'm talking about it, not because I want you to know that about me necessarily, but because it's been so crippling for me and has changed my life so much. I didn't know a way out of it. And a good friend introduced me to something called a stellate ganglion block. This is something that is used, was used in the military for chronic pain. It helps with the parasympathetic response, the fight or flight response, and actually resets the messages that go to your brain. Giving your brain a much needed rest from all of the trauma that one has experienced. Well, I had nothing to lose, considering that I was having a hard time just living day to day and hiding a lot of it from my family about how hard it was. And I got the shot yesterday. But as soon as it finished, I've never been high, but I imagine this is what it feels like to be high. All of a sudden it was just a calm that I have not had in a very long time. And I thought, I wonder if this is how normal people feel. And so I want to pass it along to you because it's not a treatment, unfortunately, that a lot of people know about. And yet me and my daughter both had it done. She was ahead of me by about a week. And it just made us feel normal, normal enough that you can get through a day that you can actually go to therapy and you can kind of see yourself or observe yourself and see things a little differently. I don't even know how to explain it. It's just calming. It's the first time I feel normal in a really, really long time. I wanted to shout out to anybody who's struggling. This particular treatment helps with chronic pain and resets the receptors that go to your brain around pain. It can help with depression and anxiety and PTSD. And I'm telling you, why doesn't this exist? Why doesn't everybody know about it? There's only two doctors in the state of Utah that do it. I have one of them DM me if you want more information. But I just wanted you to know, my gosh, there's some hope that maybe I can get back to something that resembles normal.