When war veterans return home after serving their country on several tours, they often bring back something that modern societies all over the world are totally unprepared for: psychological battle scars.
The sort of scars that cannot be seen or quickly treated with a shot of antibiotics. The sort of scars that don’t receive get-well cards, flowers and boxes of chocolates from families and loved ones.
PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) is a terribly lonely mental disorder that is not even fully understood by the mental health industry. Patients suffering from the condition rarely have the inclination or the words to describe the horrors of the battlefield plaguing their post-war existence. Even if they did, most people have little understanding of the depth of the depression and distress that PTSD entails.
Civilians, who have only experienced war in movies and on television, think veterans with PTSD can simply flip a switch in their heads once they come back home, and forget their horrifying war experiences like a bad but bygone dream.
That is so not true.
As a result, a high majority of PTSD victims in the United States – 31% of Vietnam veterans, 10% of Gulf War veterans, 20% of Iraq war veterans and 11% of Afghanistan veterans – detach themselves from their families and friends, and try to grapple with the problem from a place of deep hopelessness and loneliness.
It is not surprising, therefore, that a growing number of PTSD sufferers (not just war vets, but people who have experience deep trauma because of some unfortunate life event) are turning more and more to realistic real sex dolls for solace and companionship.
We interviewed a cross-section of real sex doll buyers with PTSD to better understand the positive impacts these silicone and TPE dolls have brought into their lives. Here is what we learned from them:
# 1: Real Sex Dolls Help To Reduce Physical Pain
• PTSD is often attended by a variety of physical symptoms, such as chronic migraines and headaches, chronic fatigue, shortness of breath, chest pain and digestion-related problems. Owners of real sex dolls who are battling PTSD all agree that the presence of their silicone or TPE `best friend’ in the room, helps to calm their nerves, and reduce the sudden onset of stress that triggers these physical symptoms.
#2: Real Sex Dolls Offer Distraction From Nightmares And Flashbacks
• Flashbacks, or “re-experiencing” a traumatic event comes on without warning. Suddenly the PTSD suffer is dragged back to the event that lies at the root of their condition, and they are forced to relive the event – frame by frame. Having a real sex doll to hold, and to receive companionship from, goes a long way in keeping these debilitating flashbacks at bay.
#3: Real Sex Dolls Decrease The Impact Of Anxiety And Depression
• Some PTSD patients say that their depression has lifted significantly with the introduction of real sex dolls in their lives. Episodes of anxiety, which were borne silently and hopelessly in the past, do not persist in quite the same way because the real sex dolls are always present to offer sexual release and physical/mental relaxation from pent-up feelings.
#4: Real Sex Dolls Act As A Buffer Against The Desire For Complete Emotional Withdrawal
• PTSD victims have a tendency to withdraw from the people they loved, the activities and hobbies they enjoyed, and the lifestyle they maintained. Fear and hopelessness make them put up barriers that their families and friends find impossible to overcome. In such situations, real sex dolls are the closest human contact that they can tolerate. Half-human and half-doll, they are the perfect buffer that does not challenge the victim and does not pose as any kind of perceived threat.
#5: Real Sex Dolls Help To Fight Insomnia
• Insomnia, or inability to sleep, is a very common symptom in PTSD. A majority of doll-owners with PTSD have said that after their real sex doll arrived, they are not so afraid of the dark, and are sleeping a whole lot better at night.
#6: Real Sex Dolls Encourage A Renewal Of Interest In Life
• The benign, non-threatening presence of real sex dolls encourage PTSD victims to drop their guard, and find safe occupations like bathing the doll, dressing the doll etc. to amuse themselves with. Even though they have lost interest in most activities of `real’ life, they are engaged in their fantasy world that gives them pleasure, relaxation and a safe creative outlet. Over time, and with proper medication and therapy, this outlet can increase, and the person can heal enough to slowly start returning to normal life.
#7: Real Sex Dolls Can Reduce The Possibility Of Substance Abuse
• Patients suffering from PTSD often turn to substances like drugs and alcohol to escape the mental trauma they are living with every single moment of the day. When they introduce a real sex doll in their lives, the propensity to indulge heavily in mood-altering substances reduces significantly because the doll is offering both fantasy and escape through sex and companionship.
#8: Real Sex Dolls Help To Control Sudden Bouts Of Anger And Aggression
• One of PTSD’s many chronic symptoms is the sudden display of aggression and anger. All the pent-up rage, sadness, disbelief and hopelessness reaches a tipping point after being held inside for so long, and the patient cannot control the negative outburst that has to occur when their tolerance threshold is crossed. The sexual relief that real sox dolls provide can become an avenue that expends a lot of that aggression. The patient can stay calmer and in more control because those unexpressed emotions are being channeled as sexual energy.
#9: Real Sex Dolls Offer Physical Release When Romance Is An Impossibility
• For PTSD victims who are completely incapable of letting another person come close to them or approach them in a romantic way, real sex dolls play an incredibly important role as caretakers of their physical needs. Especially if this aversion for physical proximity is causing symptoms of erectile dysfunction. (Read our article on sex-doll owners with erectile dysfunction by clicking here.)