Other Emotional & Psychological Problems

How Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Engulfs Your Mind

Tue, 06/10/2008 - 13:28 — London Wellbein...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD is described as a state of anxiety disorder that is triggered by any grave event. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder occurs when the victim confronts any extreme psychological trauma in the past, which gives rise to a strangulating situation of stress disorder later. PTSD is considered to be more serious than traumatic stress, whose intensity and duration are both less.

Understanding Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

PTSD is very much complicated and is caused by psychological trauma. The sources of the traumatic conditions are very grueling, since they have a consequential impact on the mind. The victim of PTSD usually has faced some childhood or adult emotional, physical or sexual abuse, which triggers the present state of problem. The traumatic events that give birth to PTSD are grave and the person passing through the phrase must have met a serious twist in the past that bifurcated his/her life onto a very different track. However, the matter should be very intensifying to result in a Post Traumatic Stress Disorder for the victim. The usual events include kidnapping, torture, violent assault, experiencing some natural disaster, violent car accidents and so on.

Hence, to brief down the causes of the disorder post stress traumatic events, have a look at the following:
- life experiences
- biological and gene factors
- changes in the natural chemicals of the brain
- changes in your temperament

The Symptoms of Disorder Post stress traumatic Events

Some major signs indicating Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in any victim includes viewing flashbacks of the past events or experiencing a deja vu at every moment of your life. Sometimes, you may also feel emotionally numb and that will stop you from thinking normally. You may also take resort to excessive drinking and smoking and face serious problems in getting sound sleep or problem in concentrating. Sometimes, when the victim encounters any similar kind of events or returns to the same date then he/she recollects the bitter memory in a flash and the traumatic phase returns.

Some Preventive Measures

Critical Incident Stress Management or CISM is useful in reducing the impact of traumatic disorders. Though CISM is effective for many, but it has proved to be non-beneficial for a few. EMDR or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is targeted for the treatments of PTSD. This is considered quite an effective treatment for many.

You can also take medications like Propranolol, which is a beta-blocker and has the ability to pacify the formation of traumatic memories. Therapists have found a better way of treating PTSD. There is a combination of psychotherapies that include group therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy and exposure therapy, all combined to treat the patients suffering from chronic mind disorders.  Yoga is now considered very effective worldwide and many are taking suit of the helpful effects of the physical and mental exercises to overcome the fear haunting from the past.

Visit the London Wellbeing Clinic

Visit David R Behan, the therapist, trainer, practitioner, life coach. He will ease down your problem pressure. David is a trained professional and he is good at giving advice, since when you are suffering from traumatic disorders advice is the main potion to the solution of the matter. At day's end, you will gifted exactly the kind of life you want.

 

How To Treat Psychological Trauma

Fri, 05/23/2008 - 17:42 — London Wellbein...

Trauma is the outcome of overwhelmingly stressful events and occurrences that shatter your inner being and leave you with haunting memories. It threats your sense of safety and security, makes you feel lonely and helpless. Any event that does not harm you physically but leaves you frightened mentally is traumatic.

Traumatic experiences involve betrayal, physical abuse, verbal abuse or sexual abuse and a major loss. Life-threatening catastrophe, natural calamities, death of near and dear ones or dissatisfaction with life can be traumatizing. In brief, events that cause trauma in most cases are as follows:

- House fire
- Violent crime
- Plane crash
- Earthquake
- Flood
- Emotional distress
- Life-taking disease
- Chronic abuse
- Relentless stress and depression
- Bloodshed and suffering in a war        

Different Types of Trauma:

- Physical trauma
- Penetrating trauma
- Blunt force trauma
- Psychological trauma
- Post-cult trauma
- Childhood trauma  

Signs and Symptoms of Trauma  

Signs and symptoms of trauma that surface as the body endeavors to regulate the pent-up energy are:

- Trembling
- Crying
- Shaking
- Sweating
- Laughing
- Breathing deeply

Psychological Trauma Treatment options

You should resolve to face the unbearable memories and feelings that you have till now avoided in order to escape the fits of trauma. It is cowardice to flinch from facing up to the heart-rending experiences and painful memories.  Facing with boldness what you fear most is what strengthens and soothes your mind. It lifts off the load of troubled emotions and thoughts that lie as heavy as lid on your mind. It is a nicer and more effective option to heal from emotional and psychological traumas.       

It can be painful and scary to work through trauma. It is potentially re-traumatizing to treat a trauma. You should consult a trauma specialist to avoid the possibility of re-traumatization. It is done in the following two ways:   

- Processing the traumatic memory
- Discharging pent-up energy
   
Processing the Traumatic Memory: Traumatic memories are different from ordinary memories. Extreme stress on the mind is a curb on the functionality of the brain to integrate your experiences into an ordered and coherent memory. However, trauma prevents the brain from integrating experiences and processing memories. 

This is an effective way to relive traumatic memories rather than simply remember them. They may be split-off fragments like bodily sensations, raw emotions, frightening images, physical pain, sounds and smells that you will feel as real as you had felt during the trauma. The memory of the trauma is processed by the reconnection of these fragments.   

Discharging Fight-Or-Flight Energy: When you confront a threat, your body at once prepares itself for an emergency action in a biological process that is the “fight-or-flight” response. This biological process is automatic. The fight-or-flight response strengthens you with extra energy to escape or flight the threat of the trauma.

Trauma Treatment Therapy for Psychological Trauma

Somatic therapy uses the body’s own healing capacity to heal the trauma. The focus of this trauma treatment are the bodily sensations not thoughts or memories of the event that has caused the trauma. Concentration on the bodily sensations helps you release trauma-related tension and energy through shaking or crying.

How London Wellbeing Clinic helps

David R Behan’s London Wellbeing Clinic at 10 Harley Street in London is a world famous centre of trauma treatment. David R Behan is a certified and experienced consultant and therapist, practitioner and trainer in the treatment of psychological trauma. You can reap a heap of benefits from trauma treatment under the care of David R Behan.   
 

 

Manic Depression and Treatments

Mon, 05/19/2008 - 08:17 — London Wellbein...

Manic depression is a serious cerebral disease of the brain that is associated with sudden shifts in behavior, moods and body functioning. Shift from an extreme emotion to another extreme emotion is manic depression. It is in fact, a mental illness with mood instability that affects the normal functioning of the brain. Manic depression is better known as bipolar disorder with mood instability.

This disease takes a toll on the social life and professional life of its sufferers. Manic depression reaches the utmost height of severity leading to insanity or suicide. It is said that this beating depression has been the cause of death of many brilliant artists, writers and composers.

In case of bipolar disorder, persons experience sudden and deep mood swings that may last for weeks, months or years. Left untreated, manic depression worsens gradually beyond endurance. This disease develops at three stages - firstly at the stage of mania, secondly at that of depression and thirdly, at the combined stage of mania and depression. It is difficult to treat the illness at the third stage.    

Symptoms that surface at the stage of mania are as follows:

- Enhanced energy
- Increased activity
- High rate of excitability
- Changing thoughts and ideas
- Rapid pace of talking and walking
- Irritation at minor incidences
- Lack of acumen and discretion
- Unusual behavior that may be aggressive
- Lack of concentration and interest in a thing at a time
- Feelings of greatness and grandeur
- Overconfidence and less sleep  
          
Symptoms that surface at the stage of depression are as follows:

- Vacant look in the eyes
- Frequent melancholic mood
- Feelings of helplessness and loneliness
- Feelings of exhaustion
- Frequent expression of annoyance
- Difficulty remembering and making decision
- Depleted level of energy and enthusiasm
- Mental conflict
- Suicidal tendencies and talk

Manic Depression Treatment
 
Medicinal treatment for manic depression with antidepressants is the first option for health professionals. Antidepressants help the patients feel mentally at ease and peace. Doctors many times depend on antidepressants for treating patients of bipolar disorder. Tricyclic Drugs prevent the reuptake of serotonin, epinerphrine and norepinephrine and treat depression. Antidepressants are not the first choice of physicians as intake of these drugs may show adverse effects. Bupropion (Wellbutrin), trazodone (Desurel) and maprotiline are effective antidepressants.

Other medications include anticonvulsants, antipsychotic and anti-anxiety medications to treat beating depression. 

SSRI Treatment

SSRI is the abbreviated form of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors. Nowadays, physicians prefer SSR inhibitors to other medications for the effective treatment of bipolar depression. They prove to be beneficial producing almost no side effects. The drawbacks of taking SSR inhibitors include GI and sleep problems. In some cases, it may bring about an unusual change in sexual function. Fuoxetine (Prozac), paroxetine (Paxil) and sertraline (Zoloft) are some effective SSR inhibitors.    

MAOI Treatment

MAOI stands for Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors. The enzymatic degeneration of norepinephrine and serotonin is hampered with MAO inhibitors. Doctors recommend these inhibitors for those patients of bipolar depression who suffer from insomnia and anorexia. Only one disadvantage of taking them is that they carry risk of high toxicity. Patients under this mode of medication are required to comply with dietary restrictions. Isocarboxazid (Marplan) is one of MAO inhibitors.       

How London Wellbeing Clinic helps

David R Behan’s London Wellbeing Clinic at 10 Harley Street in London is the one and only stop for the patients of bipolar disorder. David R Behan, a highly certified and experienced practitioner coaching the victims of manic depression.

 

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Its Treatments

Sat, 05/17/2008 - 13:20 — London Wellbein...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD is an emotional ailment that results from the factors of fright. Moreover, highly unpleasant moments, painful events, deadly dreams and traumas also result in emotional distress and disorder. PTSD sufferers tend to avoid objects, people, places or things that revive their memory of the traumatic experiences. Victims of PTSD are delicately sensitive to adverse conditions of life. 

Rape victims and combat veterans in general fall prey to posttraumatic stress disorder. Studies show that women are more prone to suffer from PTSD than men. This disorder is common to the African, Hispanics and the Americans. Post traumatic stress disorder can victimize rescue workers when they reach the stage of senility as they are haunted by the memory of agony and suffering, at the sites of natural casualties and calamities.        

Several physical and mental factors are responsible for post traumatic stress disorder. Mental factors account more than physical factors to the emergence of this psychological disorder. Loneliness, dissatisfaction, depression, stress, anxiety, apprehension and distress are several prime causes of this psychic disorder.

Statistics show that nowadays, PTSD has become common to children and teenagers all over the world. Forty percent of children and teenagers meet a traumatic event once in life. As a result, six percent of boys and fifteen percent of girls develop PTSD. Children who are left with indelible impact of some unpleasant occurrence develop PTSD. Percentage of such children ranges from 30 to 60.

PTSD Treatment options

PTSD treatments are done in two modes - medical and psychological. Psychological treatment involves teaching the victims about PTSD strategies and to keeps them away from the factors that remind them of their past suffering. Techniques of this mode of treatment include sympathizing with them and cheering them up. The alchemy of love, affection and sympathy is stronger than the curative property of medicines. Educating them about the symptoms of PTSD is an integral part of psychological treatment. Knowledge of fact and figures of the disorder will make them conscious at the surfacing of symptoms. It teaches them how to withdraw from the trap of heart-rending events and experiences and prepares them to accept situations with positivity. This psychotherapy treatment is more reliable and popular than other treatments for PTSD. 

Eye-movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is an effective kin of cognitive therapy. In this mode of therapy, the therapist induces PTSD affected persons to speak out their anguish and agony. They are kept under observation for a few days. The practitioner observes the gestures, facial expressions and movements when they talk about the trauma they have suffered and speak out their negative feelings. PTSD sufferers may benefit from parenting classes and counseling of their friends and families. Family members can throw light on what the sufferers themselves cannot share with others.   

Medicinal PTSD Treatment

Medications that doctors usually recommend for the victims of PTSD include serotonergic antidepressants such as fluoxetine (Prozac), paroxetine (Paxil), sertraline (Zoloft). Medicines that reduce the intensity of this illness are clonidine (Catapres), propranolol and guaneficine (Tenex). These medicines prove effective to decrease depression, anxiety and panic and reduce impulsivity, aggression and suicidal thoughts that result from the severity of mental disorder in the minds of PTSD sufferers. Mood stabilizers for example, Lamictal, Gabitril, Depakote, Risperdal, Zyprexa and Seroquel are less effective but potentially helpful medicines for persons with PTSD. These keep them away from feelings of alienation and dissociation that agitate them.    

London Wellbeing Clinic

David R Behan’s London Wellbeing Clinic at 10 Harley Street in London is the place where clients of PTSD are effectively treated. David R Behan is a highly proficient practitioner in therapies for post traumatic stress disorder. PTSD sufferers from around the world have experienced profundly positive results to their psychological issues at the clinic of David R. Behan.  

 
Syndicate content

 

Customers viewing this page may be interested in these sponsored links:

 

 

What do our clients say?

David exceeded my expectations as i'd previously seen many practitioners who just couldn't deliver on their promises. My Phobia that had held me back for many years has now completely gone and i am now living life to the full.

Richard, Brighton

After only 3 sessions my stress and the weight i was carrying had started to melt away. With the stress management tools and actionable life changing steps we worked on, i can now handle any stresses that life throws at me.

Sarah, London

I am truly grateful to David and London Wellbeing Clinic for giving me back control of my life. Using various subtle techniques such as Hypnotherapy, TFT, EMDR, etc, I experienced profound change allowing me to let the past go.

Nigel, Surrey