Tuesday, April 24, 2012
PTSD
I am PTSD or post-traumatic stress disorder. I occur after you have witnessed or experienced a traumatic event which typically involves a threat of injury or death. Some events that would cause PTSD would be assault, abuse, rape, terrorism, war and much more. I ususally come with haunting memories, nightmares, and insomnia. I can occur at any age and most often occur in women. Usually if you have me, you tend to avoid situations similar to the particular event that caused you to be diagnosed with me. Some of my symptoms are heart beating fast, dizziness, being startled easily, feeling dettached, etc. A good treatment for me would be to join a support group and go to therapy.
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The psychotherapy method that I think someone with PTSD would use is Psychodynamic because it is caused by unconscious forces and childhood experiences. You have to reduce anxiety without medication and through self insight.
ReplyDeleteI think this disorder is interesting and learned that you can get PTSD even from just witnessing something bad. I knew that people get it from being in war, but I did not know that it occurs more in women than it does in men. I think a good bio-medical therapy for this disorder would be anti-anxiety drugs because they depress the central nervous system activity which would help the person be less scared or worried about things they remember. A psychotherapy method would be group or family therapy to help them talk about what is causing their PTSD.
ReplyDeleteHey PTSD.. most people don't really enjoy having you around.. so I'm going to tell them how to get rid of you. Sorry pal.
ReplyDeleteThe biomedical therapy I would recommend are anti-anxiety drugs because they depress the central nervous system and allow one to stop feeling so anxious all the time.
The psychotherapy method I would recommend is the Cognitive Therapy because the goal of this therapy is to change the way a client interprets events. Someone with PTSD can't let go of a traumatic event, so talking about different ways to deal with other traumatic events would help.
I would reccoment using anti-anxiety drugs a biomedical therapy to depress your CNS and stop the anxieousness, you said you come with haunting memories, nightmares, and insomnia and i think these anti anxiety drugs can help with those symptoms, I would reccomend Xanax or Ativan.
ReplyDeleteI think that psychodynamic therapy would work best for this disorder. It reduces anxiety through self-insight. They would get the face-to-face treatment, which could really help them open up about their issues. The fact that it reduces anxiety would also help with overcoming the fear part of it.
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