Know About PTSD Facts & Treatment

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Know About PTSD Facts Treatment
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PTSD Facts

• 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.

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PTSD Treatment Information

• The main Treatment for PTSD are 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.

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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.

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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.
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Other PTSD Treatments
Present Centered Therapy 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 ones life as well as
teaching problem solving strategies to deal with
current life stressors.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is
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.