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If you are struggling with the debilitating effects of trauma, finding professional care is essential for your recovery. Compassion Recovery Centers provides specialized ptsd treatment in Laguna Hills CA, offering expert mental health support to help you heal, find peace, and reclaim life.
Post-traumatic stress disorder, commonly referred to as PTSD, is a mental health disorder that follows exposure to immense stress and trauma. For most people, symptoms of flashbacks, anxiety, avoidance and dissasociation are common in the weeks following a traumatic event. But, for individuals with PTSD, those symptoms can persist for years and won’t go away without treatment. While once associated almost entirely with veterans and individuals who had experienced or lived through war zones, PTSD is now known to impact anyone, with 6% of the U.S. population affected at some point in their lives. In 2020, that meant that about 13 million Americans qualified for a PTSD diagnosis.
If you or a loved one is struggling after a traumatic incident, it’s important to talk to your doctor, get context on what’s wrong and why, and work to get help. The mental health experts at Compassion Recovery Center offer support for mental health including intensive inpatient care for PTSD to help you recover and get back to your life.
We don’t just talk about the past; we use science-backed modalities to help your brain process and “file away” traumatic memories so they no longer trigger a fight-or-flight response.
Explore the different mental health disorders we treat at Compassion Recovery Centers. From depression to anxiety, to Bipolar disorder and eating disorders, we provide each client with individualized treatment that works for each client’s specific needs in treatment.
It is normal to be shaken after a traumatic event. However, if these feelings aren’t fading, professional support can help you process what happened so you can find peace.
Consider seeking help if you notice:
Anyone can get PTSD. That includes people who don’t deal with stress or stressful situations regularly. Today, about 6% of the U.S. population will have PTSD at some point during their lives. That works out to about 2 out of every 25 women and 1 out of every 25 men. And, about 1 in 20 people in the United States will qualify for a PTSD diagnosis at any given time.
Veterans and persons exposed to war zones are more likely to have PTSD than civilians, with 3 in 10 veterans of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom having PTSD at any given time. However, anyone can have PTSD.
Most people experience at least some of the symptoms of PTSD as a normal reaction to trauma. In fact, it’s unusual not to experience intrusive memories, flashbacks, depression, and difficulty managing emotions in the first few weeks after trauma. Here, if you or a loved one has experienced a traumatic event, it’s recommended that you seek out a trauma counselor and get help dealing with and managing that trauma in a healthy fashion.
Trauma/Stressor (direct exposure, witnessing, a close friend or relative experiencing, direct exposure to details)
Intrusive/re-experiencing symptoms (1+ required)
Avoidance symptoms (1+ required)
Cognition and mood symptoms (2+ required)
Arousal and Reactivity symptoms
Depersonalization
If you or a loved one is struggling after exposure to a trauma, it’s important to talk to your doctor. They can work with you to either diagnose you with PTSD or refer you to a mental health professional who can.
For most people, treating PTSD means talking to a doctor and seeking out behavioral therapy. Depending on your state of mind and mental health, this treatment can be delivered outpatient or inpatient. In either case, it will include a mix of therapy and counseling, support, and help adapting behaviors and how you process things to help you recover from trauma.
In every case, the treatment is approached holistically, with the intent to treat the most pressing symptoms first. For example, if someone is too stressed to too anxious to respond well to treatment, PTSD treatment may begin with a short course of benzodiazepines and therapy – after which the therapy should have helped. Medication is not a first-line treatment for PTSD, however you may receive it as part of your personalized treatment plan if you need it to make the most of therapy.
Exposure therapy gradually exposes you to trauma and triggers using your memories, writing, visits to places where traumatic events happened, talking to people who trigger traumatic memories. This is followed by sessions to help you resolve emotions and to move on, so that you can run into those people and places again without triggering trauma.
Behavioral therapy such as CBT (Cognitive behavioral therapy) DBT (Dialectal Behavioral Therapy) and EMDR (Eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing) are all commonly used to help patients understand how their own behavior contributes to ongoing symptoms and how to change behaviors to improve how you manage trauma, stress, and negative emotions.
Cognitive Restructuring Therapy is often used to help people make sense of emotions and experiences. The therapy is designed to help you understand what’s going on, what you can do about it, and how you can make sense of situations where you were powerless.
Most therapy for PTSD lasts for 40-90 days. However, you may break that into multiple sections, with a 4-6 week stay in inpatient care followed by an outpatient program and aftercare.
It’s critical that your mental health treatment and recovery include support for long-term treatment and aftercare. Your program should include follow-ups, opportunities to go back into treatment, and an alumni program to ensure you continue doing well and get the help you need after graduating your treatment program.
Talk to Compassion Recovery Services today about our aftercare program.
If you or a loved one is struggling with PTSD, experiencing symptoms of depression after a traumatic event, or think you’re struggling, it’s important to reach out and get help. Start by talking to your doctor about your options and getting a referral. And, the team at Compassion Recovery is here to help. Call us at (877) 375-4344 to talk to a consultant about you or your loved one’s mental health and treatment.
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