POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER AND RELATED STRESS CONDITIONS
PTSD is an anxiety disorder that can develop after a person is exposed to one or more traumatic events such, as major stress, sexual assault, warfare, or other threats on a person’s well being. Symptoms include disturbing recurring flashbacks, avoidance or numbing of memories of the event, and hyper arousal that continue long after the event. The term PTSD was coined in the late 1970’s after the Vietnam War and the diagnosis of Vietnam veterans.
Most people who have experienced a traumatising event will don’t develop PTSD and those that do suffer elements of PTSD do not have to have been in battles as it is a common stressor to those who have experienced abuse, mental or physical, injury or a an event in their lives where they have felt intense fear or powerlessness. Often these feelings can have been generated from a long ago event that has not been fully resolved or reconciled with in the emotional parts of the brain. An emotional even such as medical diagnosis’s, fertility issues, miscarriages, divorce or loss of a loved one can also trigger stress that spirals into a loop that the client finds hard to escape from but has reached a point that they have made the positive decision to do something about it and that is the first and very important step to gaining inner peace. We need to be reminded that it is not about what is wrong with you but what has happened to you and that realisation is a positive realisation.
A lot of research has been done into PTSD and although initially it was treated with medications it is now widely accepted that psychotherapy, CBT (cognitive behaviour therapy) and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) and EMI (Eye Movement) techniques are very effective in treating the disorder and related anxiety issues that have not been dealt with in the mind in the usual way and are still causing problem for the client long after the event.
Hypnosis and related the therapies of CBT, EMDR and EMI allow the client to reframe the events, and in a progressive and gentle way, working closely with the therapist learns to reduce the vividness and distress associated with upsetting memories. It is a very productive process that allows the client to take control of their feelings and reactions and to again, be in the driving seat of their own lives.
Full case histories are taken in the first session and progress is reviewed together as the journey to reconcile the past the present continues until the client feels confident that they can incorporate the events of the past in such a way that they can go forward with confidence to once again to lead full and happy lives.
I am happy to explain the EMDR and EMI techniques on application if a client would like to know more about them. Hypnosis therapy is also used and together they form an effective, soothing treatment for long held anxiety disorders and concerns that are affecting client’s current lives.
PTSD is an anxiety disorder that can develop after a person is exposed to one or more traumatic events such, as major stress, sexual assault, warfare, or other threats on a person’s well being. Symptoms include disturbing recurring flashbacks, avoidance or numbing of memories of the event, and hyper arousal that continue long after the event. The term PTSD was coined in the late 1970’s after the Vietnam War and the diagnosis of Vietnam veterans.
Most people who have experienced a traumatising event will don’t develop PTSD and those that do suffer elements of PTSD do not have to have been in battles as it is a common stressor to those who have experienced abuse, mental or physical, injury or a an event in their lives where they have felt intense fear or powerlessness. Often these feelings can have been generated from a long ago event that has not been fully resolved or reconciled with in the emotional parts of the brain. An emotional even such as medical diagnosis’s, fertility issues, miscarriages, divorce or loss of a loved one can also trigger stress that spirals into a loop that the client finds hard to escape from but has reached a point that they have made the positive decision to do something about it and that is the first and very important step to gaining inner peace. We need to be reminded that it is not about what is wrong with you but what has happened to you and that realisation is a positive realisation.
A lot of research has been done into PTSD and although initially it was treated with medications it is now widely accepted that psychotherapy, CBT (cognitive behaviour therapy) and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) and EMI (Eye Movement) techniques are very effective in treating the disorder and related anxiety issues that have not been dealt with in the mind in the usual way and are still causing problem for the client long after the event.
Hypnosis and related the therapies of CBT, EMDR and EMI allow the client to reframe the events, and in a progressive and gentle way, working closely with the therapist learns to reduce the vividness and distress associated with upsetting memories. It is a very productive process that allows the client to take control of their feelings and reactions and to again, be in the driving seat of their own lives.
Full case histories are taken in the first session and progress is reviewed together as the journey to reconcile the past the present continues until the client feels confident that they can incorporate the events of the past in such a way that they can go forward with confidence to once again to lead full and happy lives.
I am happy to explain the EMDR and EMI techniques on application if a client would like to know more about them. Hypnosis therapy is also used and together they form an effective, soothing treatment for long held anxiety disorders and concerns that are affecting client’s current lives.
