Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Its Treatments

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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD is an emotional ailment that results from the factors of fright. Moreover, highly unpleasant moments, painful events, deadly dreams and traumas also result in emotional distress and disorder. PTSD sufferers tend to avoid objects, people, places or things that revive their memory of the traumatic experiences. Victims of PTSD are delicately sensitive to adverse conditions of life. 

Rape victims and combat veterans in general fall prey to posttraumatic stress disorder. Studies show that women are more prone to suffer from PTSD than men. This disorder is common to the African, Hispanics and the Americans. Post traumatic stress disorder can victimize rescue workers when they reach the stage of senility as they are haunted by the memory of agony and suffering, at the sites of natural casualties and calamities.        

Several physical and mental factors are responsible for post traumatic stress disorder. Mental factors account more than physical factors to the emergence of this psychological disorder. Loneliness, dissatisfaction, depression, stress, anxiety, apprehension and distress are several prime causes of this psychic disorder.

Statistics show that nowadays, PTSD has become common to children and teenagers all over the world. Forty percent of children and teenagers meet a traumatic event once in life. As a result, six percent of boys and fifteen percent of girls develop PTSD. Children who are left with indelible impact of some unpleasant occurrence develop PTSD. Percentage of such children ranges from 30 to 60.

PTSD Treatment options

PTSD treatments are done in two modes - medical and psychological. Psychological treatment involves teaching the victims about PTSD strategies and to keeps them away from the factors that remind them of their past suffering. Techniques of this mode of treatment include sympathizing with them and cheering them up. The alchemy of love, affection and sympathy is stronger than the curative property of medicines. Educating them about the symptoms of PTSD is an integral part of psychological treatment. Knowledge of fact and figures of the disorder will make them conscious at the surfacing of symptoms. It teaches them how to withdraw from the trap of heart-rending events and experiences and prepares them to accept situations with positivity. This psychotherapy treatment is more reliable and popular than other treatments for PTSD. 

Eye-movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is an effective kin of cognitive therapy. In this mode of therapy, the therapist induces PTSD affected persons to speak out their anguish and agony. They are kept under observation for a few days. The practitioner observes the gestures, facial expressions and movements when they talk about the trauma they have suffered and speak out their negative feelings. PTSD sufferers may benefit from parenting classes and counseling of their friends and families. Family members can throw light on what the sufferers themselves cannot share with others.   

Medicinal PTSD Treatment

Medications that doctors usually recommend for the victims of PTSD include serotonergic antidepressants such as fluoxetine (Prozac), paroxetine (Paxil), sertraline (Zoloft). Medicines that reduce the intensity of this illness are clonidine (Catapres), propranolol and guaneficine (Tenex). These medicines prove effective to decrease depression, anxiety and panic and reduce impulsivity, aggression and suicidal thoughts that result from the severity of mental disorder in the minds of PTSD sufferers. Mood stabilizers for example, Lamictal, Gabitril, Depakote, Risperdal, Zyprexa and Seroquel are less effective but potentially helpful medicines for persons with PTSD. These keep them away from feelings of alienation and dissociation that agitate them.    

Bolton Wellbeing Clinic

David R Behan’s Bolton Wellbeing Clinic at 10 Harley Street in Bolton is the place where clients of PTSD are effectively treated. David R Behan is a highly proficient practitioner in therapies for post traumatic stress disorder. PTSD sufferers from around the world have experienced profundly positive results to their psychological issues at the clinic of David R. Behan.  

 

 

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