What is PTSD therapy?
Post -traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychological syndrome characterized by fear, anxiety or avoiding everything that serves as a reminder of the previous traumatic event. Usually symptoms are manifested as recurring nightmares, flashbacks or extreme reactions to what is perceived as a predecessor to further occurrence of an event such as a loud bang or sudden movement. The veterans return from the war, often from the guilt for survived or from the skiing self -blaming, which led to the disappearance of others, often experience PTSD. However, this disorder also affects people who have experienced other types of trauma, such as sexual assault, car accident, natural disaster, terrorist act, etc. Because symptoms can advance to the point where they are debilitated, it is often necessary to learn the cohesion of personal tragedy with everyday life. This treatment, also known as cognitive-behavioral therapy, is focused on identifying thought patterns that cause anger or stRach to move them to reflect more appropriate thoughts and emotional reactions. The aspect of the behavior of this type of therapy includes the process of reconstructing existing behavior by building management skills.
exposure therapy has the same goal as cognitive therapy, but by various means. In fact, it is really a form of PTSD therapy. The assumption is that by talking about a traumatic experience individually with a therapist or in group therapy, the patient can eventually desensibilize to make distorted bits and pieces stored in memory gradually before trying to face the whole sequence of events. Unlike this method, however, the therapist May involve certain patients in "floods", which means deliberate exposure to numerous memories associated with a traumatic event at once to deal with feelings of amazement.
Desensitization and overwork of Eye Movement (EMDR) is a relatively new form of PTSD therapy.As with exposure and cognitive therapy, EMDR therapy is focused on desensitization of memories and reframeing or reworking to thought patterns and response to behavior. The key difference, however, is that the distraction is introduced, while the patient deals with the withdrawal of a traumatic experience. This is achieved by moving eyes from left to right from monitoring a nearby face or alternating hand taps or other sounds. The exact mechanism of this innovative therapy is unclear at this point, but it is assumed that bilateral disorders interrupt and distract fragmented memories of a traumatic event, so the brain will be free to accept more organized - and lessstrach -interpretation of the event.