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Know About PTSD Facts & Treatment

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Know About PTSD Facts & Treatment

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  1. Know About PTSD Facts & Treatment

  2. More than 8 million between the age of 18 an older have PTSD. • 67 percent of people exposed to mass violence have been shown to develop PTSD, a higher rate than those exposed to natural disasters or other types of traumatic events. • People who have experienced previous traumatic events run a higher risk of developing PTSD. • PTSD can also affect children and members of the military. PTSD Facts

  3. PTSD Treatment Information • The main Treatment for PTSDare specific short-term psychotherapies. • Everyone is different, so a treatment that works for one person may not work for another. • Some people may need to try different treatments to find what works best for their symptoms. • Regardless of which option you chose, it is important to seek treatment from a mental health professional who is experienced with PTSD.

  4. Cognitive Behavior Therapy • CBT is a type of psychotherapy that has consistently been found to be the most effective treatment of PTSD both in the short term and the long term. • CBT for PTSD is trauma-focused, meaning the trauma event are the center of the treatment. It focuses on identifying, understanding, and changing thinking and behavior patterns. • CBT is an active treatment involved the patient to engage in and outside of weekly appointments and learn skills to be applied to their symptoms.

  5. Main Components of CBT Exposure therapy. This type of intervention helps people face and control their fears by exposing them to the trauma memory they experiences in the context of a safe environment. Exposure can use mental imagery, writing, or visits to places or people that remind them of their trauma.  Cognitive Restructuring. This type of intervention helps people make sense of bad memories. Oftentimes people remember their trauma differently and feel guilt of shame about aspects of their trauma that were not actually their fault. Cognitive restructuring helps people look at what happened with fact to get a realistic perspective on the trauma.

  6. Other PTSD Treatments Present CenteredTherapy is a type of non-trauma focused treatment that centres around current issues rather than directly processing the trauma. PCT provides psycho education about the impact of trauma on one’s life as well as teaching problem solving strategies to deal with current life stressors. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessingis a form of psychotherapy that involves processing upsetting trauma-related memories, thoughts and feelings. EMDR asks people to pay attention to either a sound or a back and forth movement while thinking about the trauma memory.

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