Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can be caused by witnessing or experiencing a traumatic event that threatens your safety or makes you feel helpless.
Signs & Symptoms of PTSD
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can affect those who directly experience the catastrophe, those who witness it, and those who are involved afterwards, including emergency workers and law enforcement personnel.
If you are having frightening thoughts and memories, feel emotionally numb to people you are close to, and want to feel more in control of your life and emotions, there are many forms of treatment available.
Effective treatment for PTSD is available. Counseling for Success can help you overcome these symptoms and decrease feelings of numbness, fear, and anxiety.
Treatment of PTSD
The primary treatments for PTSD are cognitive behavioral therapy, relaxation training, systematic desensitization.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive behavioral therapy involves understanding how you think about the trauma and learning how to change these thoughts or perceptions.
Certain thoughts can make your symptoms worse. Maybe you believe what happened was your fault, or perhaps you constantly think something bad will happen and avoid situations or places that trigger feelings of stress or worry. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps you change your thought patterns to help you realize you are not to blame and help you feel more confident going to various places and feeling safe. You also learn ways to cope with feelings such as anger, guilt, and fear.
Relaxation Training
Learning deep breathing exercises, guided imagery or self-hypnosis can help you retrain your mind and body to become more relaxed, decrease muscle tension, racing thoughts and feelings of panic or anxiety.
Systematic desensitization
Systematic desensitization is a therapeutic intervention that reduces a conditioned response to a object or situation that triggers fear or anxiety.
With the support of a therapist, you identify anxiety-provoking situations in order from least to most distressing. In a relaxed state, you imagine or think about the fearful situation while reinforcing the relaxed, calm state. As your tolerance develops for each progressively fearful situation, a gradual desensitization occurs until you can consistently change how you react to the memories or situations.
A complimentary consultation is available to discuss your treatment options.
Signs & Symptoms of PTSD
- Sleep problems
- Feeling detached or numb
- Being easily startled
- Hypervigilance
- Nightmares
- Intrusive thoughts or flashbacks
- Persistent feelings of guilt
- Panic and anxiety
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can affect those who directly experience the catastrophe, those who witness it, and those who are involved afterwards, including emergency workers and law enforcement personnel.
If you are having frightening thoughts and memories, feel emotionally numb to people you are close to, and want to feel more in control of your life and emotions, there are many forms of treatment available.
Effective treatment for PTSD is available. Counseling for Success can help you overcome these symptoms and decrease feelings of numbness, fear, and anxiety.
Treatment of PTSD
The primary treatments for PTSD are cognitive behavioral therapy, relaxation training, systematic desensitization.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive behavioral therapy involves understanding how you think about the trauma and learning how to change these thoughts or perceptions.
Certain thoughts can make your symptoms worse. Maybe you believe what happened was your fault, or perhaps you constantly think something bad will happen and avoid situations or places that trigger feelings of stress or worry. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps you change your thought patterns to help you realize you are not to blame and help you feel more confident going to various places and feeling safe. You also learn ways to cope with feelings such as anger, guilt, and fear.
Relaxation Training
Learning deep breathing exercises, guided imagery or self-hypnosis can help you retrain your mind and body to become more relaxed, decrease muscle tension, racing thoughts and feelings of panic or anxiety.
Systematic desensitization
Systematic desensitization is a therapeutic intervention that reduces a conditioned response to a object or situation that triggers fear or anxiety.
With the support of a therapist, you identify anxiety-provoking situations in order from least to most distressing. In a relaxed state, you imagine or think about the fearful situation while reinforcing the relaxed, calm state. As your tolerance develops for each progressively fearful situation, a gradual desensitization occurs until you can consistently change how you react to the memories or situations.
A complimentary consultation is available to discuss your treatment options.
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