What Is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a condition suffered by an adult or child who experienced or witnessed a traumatic event. The person lives with the belief that they could have come to real harm, or might have suffered some level of harm from the event they experienced or witnessed. PTSD comes after the event occurs, and usually happens when the person thinks about the event or visits the place where it happened. PTSD comes with a host of different symptoms. Here are a few of the most common: you could be performing an everyday task and suddenly flashback to the event, causing your heart to race. Suddenly, it feels as though the event is happening again. You might regularly have nightmares about the event, which can lead to insomnia and exhaustion, making you angry and irritable in your waking hours. If you are experiencing any of these types of symptoms, it’s important that you get a proper diagnosis from a medical professional. A doctor can make sure that the symptoms you are feeling are not because of some other medical condition. A therapist can help you get the symptoms under control, whilst also talking through the events to help reduce the occurrence of the symptoms.

At Long Beach Therapy we offer both EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and TFCBT (Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), which are two of the most used treatments for PTSD. Both are recognized as an “evidence-based practice” which means that both have shown in research to help with PTSD. If you are looking for treatment for PTSD in Long Beach, please call us at 562-310-9741.