Traumatic Stress

Traumatic stress is a name given to the after-effects of a person who has suffered trauma.  The trauma can be from a car wreck, from a severe illness, from childhood abuse, or from being a participant in a war.  A person does not have to have been the victim of the trauma to have traumatic stress.  Witnessing a traumatic scene can be enough: some who watched the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center have traumatic stress.  And these do not exhaust the possible sources of trauma.

It has been called battle fatigue, shell shock, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).  But whatever the name, it has harsh consequences to the one who suffers from it.  It has many symptoms, often divided into the categories of intrusive, avoidant, and hyperarousal.  The intrusive category includes flashbacks to remembered situations and nightmares.  The avoidant category describes how a person will avoid emotions, relationships, and situations that are reminiscent of the traumatic event.  Hyperarousal includes such things as exaggerated startle reaction, explosive outbursts, extreme vigilance, panic symptoms, and sleep disturbances.

Conventional treatment includes tranquilizers and psychotherapy.  It commonly takes years of treatment.  Some forms of psychotherapy can make the symptoms worse from the repeated discussions of the traumatic events or subsequent events that have become associated with the original incident or situation.

There are alternatives, however.  There are NLP techniques that have been used for more than 20 years that can stop the symptoms in one afternoon.  Time Line Therapy ® has also been used successfully for many years.  One or two sessions are often all that it takes.  For more difficult cases, such as those which involved deaths, there are hypnotherapeutic techniques that are very powerful.

Any intervention for traumatic stress will probably be more beneficial from working with a person who includes a spiritual component.  If you or a loved one is suffering from the effects of traumatic stress, come see me for lasting relief.  The suffering does not have to continue.
 

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