Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) | Quays Clinic of Hypnotherapy

What Is PTSD?

PTSD is known as post-traumatic stress disorder and may develop after an event involving actual or threatened death or injury to an individual or someone else during this time the person felt intense fear, helplessness or horror. Military service, natural disasters or hostage situations can cause this disorder, with symptoms including diminished responsiveness to stimuli, anxiety, sleep disorders, persistent reliving of the event as well as difficulty concentrating. PTSD is classified as a mental health disorder. PTSD can be compared to an anxiety disorder. Anxiety disorders follow an exposure to a life threatening or extreme event that has evoked great horror and helplessness much like PTSD as well as being characterized by flashbacks, nightmares and impaired functioning. The essential feature of PTSD is severe anxiety which is a state of constant or recurring alarm and fearfulness.

What Are The Symptoms Of PTSD?

It is known that 10 percent of all Americans have had or will have PTSD at some point within their life. Panic attacks are characterized by intense emotional feelings associated with PTSD and associated by physical symptoms such as short breath, sweating, heart palpitations and chest pains. Depression is one of the most commonly occurred disorders associated with PTSD. Symptoms for depression include loss of interest or pleasure in activities, considerable amount of weight loss as well as weight gain, difficulty falling asleep or sleeping too much, felling worthless and guilty as well as the thoughts of ending one’s life. Depression is also known as a very common mental illness just like post-traumatic stress disorder. A person with schizophrenia has been found to have had a history of traumatic stress than those without. Bipolar is a condition that is characterized by severe mood changes from highs that are manic to lows known as depression that also affect a person’s attitude, energy and ability to function.

What Do You Do If You Think You Have PTSD?

If you or a loved one is believed to have PTSD it is important to seek help immediately. Early treatment is better and can help a person deal with symptoms now before they get worse in the future with not seeking treatment. Be willing to listen to family and friends who have been affected and encourage them to seek counseling. If you are affected by PTSD try and recognize the feeling’s and talk to others about your fears and know what feelings are normal responses to an abnormal situation. PTSD can also make a person’s physical health worse so getting help for a person’s PTSD could help to improve their overall physical health. Cognitive behavioral therapy is known as a type of counseling for post-traumatic stress disorder and the most effective type. Medications like selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are an antidepressant that can help with the feelings to make you less sad and worried.

Hypnotherapy For PTSD

If you are looking to find hypnotherapy in Durham, Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, Sunderland or South Shields contact clinical hypnotherapist Ian Smith today. Hypnotist Ian Smith is an Internationally respected therapist who has many years of professional experience in the hypnotherapy business. 

Ian Smith (Distinction) D.Hyp  T.F.T  M.U.F.H  M.A.A.H  U.K.C.H.O  N.R.H  C.I.S.H
Quays Clinic of Hypnotherapy in North Shields
Telephone: 0774 3353367.