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Introduction Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition triggered by experiencing or witnessing a traumatic event. It affects millions worldwide, including individuals exposed to combat, natural disasters, serious accidents, or personal assaults. While trauma is a part of life, PTSD develops when the mind struggles to process and...
Trauma is the natural emotional response to a frightening or life-threatening event. After experiencing a trauma, many people develop symptoms like jumpiness, tension, and hypervigilance. One of the main symptoms people face after going through trauma is difficulty sleeping. Research shows a vast majority of people who live with post-traumatic...
Do you ever have nightmares about the pandemic? Or do intrusive thoughts or memories pop up that make it difficult to function? Have you been having difficulty concentrating in the past few years? If so, you may be dealing with pandemic-related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Several years into the pandemic,...
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (also known as PTSD) is exactly what you’d imagine from the name – a disorder that occurs in people after they have experienced a traumatic, stressful, shocking, dangerous, or frightening event. What kind of traumatic or stressful events can cause PTSD? The type of events...
PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) is a condition that can develop after exposure to an extremely threatening or horrific event or series of events. Many people associate PTSD with combat situations and the experiences of military veterans. However, many people suffer from PTSD due to a range of events, so...
In this article, we will be looking at trauma in detail – what it is, how it happens, the impact of trauma on individuals, and who is at risk. Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD) will be explained in an easy to understand way, with a description of how it...
A person suffering from anxiety spends most of his or her time either remembering some frightening event that’s long gone, or imagining ones yet to come. In other words, their minds habitually gravitate to the past and the future, but rarely give any thought to what is happening right here,...
The truth is that anxiety has many sources, can accompany many disorders (such as PTSD), and can wear many faces. Let’s look at the different ways anxiety can present itself in your life. The descriptions below are offered in the spirit of “knowledge is power.” The more you know about...
Part I of a Six-part Trauma Series. Trigger warning: This is a difficult topic. Some examples of traumas will be alluded to without details in order to set a scene for clarity and relatability. _____________ “What’s wrong with me? Why can’t I just snap out of it? It’s been almost...
A number of our clients come to The Center with chronic pain that has persisted for years. This is often referred to as Fibromyalgia. The client has tried pain medications, diets, stretching, physical therapy, massages, and more. Nothing has seemed to work. But after we begin treatment using the whole...
It’s springtime. The weather has turned and the sense of renewal is in the air. Beautiful flowers, tree buds, mowed lawns all signal the rejuvenation of flora and fawna. You may be experiencing the sensation of renewal as well. Longer days mean more outdoor activities, more engagement with others, and...
Did you ever play with wind-up toys as a kid? Remember how if you wound the toy too far, it broke? Well, you are the wind-up toy. You are the wind-up toy, and anxiety keeps winding and winding you up. At some point, anxiety could over-wind you, so you’ll break....
To help you identify your patterns of worry and what activities or thoughts they are most associated with, you need to answer the following questions. Take your time to answer these questions and rally think about your answers.
Jill suffered a devastating anxiety attack. She had been depressed for months over her upcoming fiftieth birthday. Instead of being a celebration of a half-century of life, Jill dreaded the date. She forbade her family from making "a fuss." She refused to go out with friends as the date approached. ...
Posttraumatic stress syndrome (PTSD) can result from any traumatic event in which a person comes to harm or believes harm will happen. The harm can be to that person or to someone they know. Witnessing a traumatic event involving a stranger can also cause PTSD. The shock of the event...
There are so many things in life to be truly fearful of. So often we neglect those things in order to concentrate on the monsters of our own making or past. However, when we succumb to our own monsters, we can sometimes lose sight of the real risks at hand....
Introduction Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a serious mental health condition triggered by traumatic experiences. One of the most distressing symptoms of PTSD is experiencing flashbacks—sudden, vivid recollections of a traumatic event that make individuals feel as if they are reliving the experience. While PTSD flashbacks can be overwhelming, understanding...
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