What is PTSD?
Post-traumatic stress disorder can happen to anyone. It is a result of a traumatic experience. Most people with PTSD are soldiers that return home from war, but also people that helped during a catastrophe can result in having PTSD. The symptoms usually show up after 3 months. It differs with every person. Most common are nightmares, flashbacks, outburst of anger and avoiding the places associated with the event. PSTD was not and is still not threated as seriously as it should. Poeple with PTSD often result in "self-threatment" with drugs, alcohol and suicide.
Types od threatments?
Trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy: In this therapy you expose yourself to the feelings, situations that remind you of the trauma. Thoughts that are irrational are then replaces to create "balance".
Family therapy: In this therapy you and your family try to unterstand each other better. PTSD also changes behaviour, relationships.
Medication: Medication is prescribed to some people with PTSD to reduce their symptoms such as depression and anexiety. Medication makes these symptoms more mild but it doesn't treat PTSD.
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing): Eye movements and other bilateral forms of stimulation are thought to work by “unfreezing” the brain’s information processing system, which is interrupted in times of extreme stress.
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