PTSD

PTSD (Post-traumatic stress disorder) is a debilitating mental condition. PTSD sufferers may feel like they can never return to their normal self because of an inability to move past the distressing incident that triggered the trauma. Traumatized people whether affected by PTSD or not, have a higher tendency towards using alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, and towards developing Eating Disorders, OCD, and Dissociative Disorders.

In earlier times, beginning with the Civil War, PTSD was known as -Da Costa’s syndrome.- The anxiety disorder has also been known by alternate terms such as -battle fatigue- or -shell shock- owing to its link with military service. Now, it is understood that PTSD is not just a wartime disorder but can develop in anyone who has experienced or witnessed a very traumatic event. Events of this nature include kidnapping, rape or sexual abuse, plane/car crash, medical procedures, or neglect in childhood.

C-PTSD (Complex post-traumatic disorder) arises from continued exposure to a traumatic happening or sequence of traumatic events. In this case, the patient experiences long-lasting issues in social and emotional functioning.

Symptoms of PTSD

Provided below are some of the symptoms of PTSD that help in diagnosing the disorder. From the symptoms, it is easy to understand how much the disorder can affect a person’s health and happiness.

Avoiding places, feelings, thoughts or activities that remind the person of the traumatic event
Frightening thoughts
Nightmares
Outbursts of anger/irritability
Hopelesness and/or severe depression
Difficulty concentrating
Emotional numbness
Substance abuse
Stomach problems, headaches, chest pain, dizziness
Reduction in interest in life and usual activities
Finding it difficult to fall asleep or to get back to sleep after waking up in between
Hypervigilance
Detachment from people

Effective Treatment- Comprehensive and Individualized

Different kinds of treatment are available for post-traumatic stress disorder namely Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), trauma focused CBT (Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy), family therapy, group therapy, attachment therapy, exposure therapy, Internal Family Systems Therapy and medication management.

Treatment for PTSD which can be quite a debilitating condition should be comprehensive- involving the client’s support system, body, mind, and spirit and should be highly individualized.

PTSD – Castlewood, a residential eating disorder treatment center in St. Louis, Missouri, provides comprehensive eating disorder treatment and anxiety treatment.

There’s a new drugless therapy that works for most mental problems. It has NO bad side effects! It’s easily affordable even to low income families! It works to change brain wave amplitudes by subliminal messaging. It’s much simpler and much less expensive than EEG Biofeedback, (aka Neurofeedback). In 4 separate volunteer tests over the past 3 years, it has clearly shown that it is at least equally successful to EEG Biofeedback, a proved albeit very expensive therapy.

(For a synopsis of all four tests completed from 2004 to 2007 go to: www.drbate.com/Ref/SubliminalSynopsis.html).

It’s called “Neuroliminal Brain Wave Training”, although most just call it “Neuroliminal”. (There’s a Patent Pending on this new usage). The most common usage is while sleeping, although some have also used it during the day as background audio with success.

How does it work? It uses a special combination of speech and audio sounds combined in a subliminal message on a repeating CD. Some call it “beneficial brainwashing”. The 4 tests conducted over 3 years are described at www.drbate.com/SubliminalSynopsis.html. These tests have shown clearly that this therapy is very effective for ADD/ADHD/autism, depression, insomnia, epilepsy, etc. The last test (ended in January 2007) included 9 autistic kids ranging in age from 3 to 11 years old. Those results showed a very similar overall improvement in an 8 week reporting period as would be expected in a similar group using Neurofeedback.

A new volunteer test is scheduled to begin in July 2007. It will last for 2-4 months overall, with reporting data bimonthly. Volunteers with Alzheimer’s, MS, PTSD, anaphylaxis, (severe allergy), autism, epilepsy, schizoid, and other severe problems will be accepted and has just gone out. Since Neuroliminal Training seems to do exactly the same thing that Neurofeedback Training does – namely, change amplitude of different brain waves, and success has been achieved by Neurofeedback with such difficult cases in the past, this is the next logical test. It will use a CD that raises the SMR brain wave, lowers the Theta brain wave, and increases the brain blood flow. (The same CD used in the previous autism test.) Details are available at www.drbate.com/alzvolunteers.html.

What are the drawbacks or potential dangers of this new therapy? The only real drawback is that it takes time to really “brainwash” beneficially. There has never been shown any real danger to either Neurofeedback or Neuroliminal. Like the tortoise, slow and steady wins the race, but it takes time. Neurofeedback definitely works for most of these mental problems. It is NOT a “magic pill”, but it does seem to work miracles over time.

PTSD – A Debilitating Mental Condition

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