is there a cure for ptsd?

Answer 1

At this point, the short answer is no. There is no single cure akin to penicillin for bacterial pneumonia. PTSD affects our system of remembering, causing "hot" memories that come out of the blue, shattering a sense of security and self-control. PTSD affects our capacity for closeness to others and our range of pleasurable emotion. PTSD affects our ability to keep stress under control, as though we are flooded with adrenalin. But most of us recover on our own, reaching a stage where the nightmares, flashbacks, and haunting memories subside, and the capacity for feeling love and joy return. The anxiety that interferes with sleep, concentration and even-temperament becomes controlled. Many overcome PTSD with time, the support of family and friends, and with resources readily available on the web (see ptsdinfo.org). Some require the help of professional therapists who provide education, medication to relieve some of the symptoms, and techniques that improve morale and mastery as memories are relived in the presence of the doctor.

The therapy that I provide usually begins with education about PTSD. Whether it is a 60 year old veteran who can't seem to shake a terrible image of combat, or a 16-year-old young-woman who was raped by a high school classmate, they begin to feel normal when they understand how PTSD is defined and how its various symptoms are expressed. Then I find out who is helpful and who is harmful in their daily lives and encourage contact with friends and family members who care enough to learn about PTSD and to be truly supportive. I inquire about health habits -eating well, exercising, recovering a decent daily pattern. If medication is truly needed to restore the ability to sleep, and to stop severe, debilitating anxiety, I offer it -in moderation. As some confidence returns, as certain symptoms subside, I invite them to consider remembering the trauma, in detail -without speaking. With their permission, I will count to 100 while they remember a particular part of the event. I'm there with them. They turn the memory on and they turn it off. This helps with a sense mastery and it reduces the impact of unwanted recollection. Usually, several months of this approach makes a considerable difference and may help a person consider themselves recovered. They often agree with the lines from "survivor psalm" that I wrote two decades ago: "I may never forget, but I need not constantly remember. I was a victim. I am a survivor."

So while there is no single, sure-fire cure for PTSD, there are many time-tested treatments available, making the symptoms less intense and the burden easier to bear. PTSD usually remits to the point that the diagnosis is no longer given.

Answer 2

If there was such a Cure for PTSD... I would be the First in Line for Treatment... First LCDR Hamilton is a NON Combatant... Has NO Field Experience... Probably a Front man for the DOD/VA... Would really like to know how he reverses the actual Brain Damage done with Combat PTSD ??? Personally my Diagnosis was made by a Far Better Doctor then him... Lets just say he has had Boots on the Ground as a GRUNT... and as a High ranking Officer and High ranking Civilian Doctor... 3 Deployments...and is still there...

Answer 3

Is Ptsd Curable

Answer 4

Don't ever take the sleeping pills route!!

1. They will damage your liver big time and you can get into serious health problems.

2. You will get hooked up on them and you won't be able to have a normal life any more if you don't take your pills everyday.

The sleeping pills industry is damaging our health by capitalizing on our ignorance, and by distracting people from effective and natural ways to deal with this problem. I had been taking prescription sleep medications [Ambien] for over 5 years. It stopped working and I simply took more. Still did not work. Nights were very difficult - medication put me to sleep but I would wake up after 2–3 hours with a strong sympathetic response (fast pulse, pounding heartbeat, wide awake alert). It was a very difficult cycle to break. I was really in bad shape due to lack of sleep.

After years of struggling I was able to cure my insomnia naturally and pretty fast. I followed the Sleep Tracks sleep optimization program, here is their official web -site if you want to take a look: http://www.insomniacure.net

Ohhh..and Good Luck!

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Answer 7

Not a cure in itself though....However, the improvement that can be achieved with medication plus psychotherapy, can be of tremendous help.
To speak of a cure, could be too demanding...The post traumatic stress disorder, tends to affect different people in different manner. (and the rsponse to specific antidepressante and anxyolitic medication will be also different from one case to another) as well as the duration of the treatment. from months to literally YEARS...
The more stable and solid the personality of the given idivisual, the less he or she will be affected by the sequelae and symtos of PTSD,,,,
So, it will run parallel with the duration of specific treatment and number os sessions of therapy before we get a favorable rsponse in reducing excessive dear, depression, nightmares, and other symptoms such as night sweats, tachyxardia, insomnia etc.
Not a cure, just make it dissapear slowly and as much as we can (that means, to have the individual free of symptoms most of the time)

Answer 8

I suffer from this, post tramatic stress disorder is tough to deal with especially depending on what caused it. The best thing to do is get into therapy and try to avoid whatever will cause you or that person to have a reaction. Sometimes having someone to talk to is the best medicine, if you can find a support group that may be helpful also. Good luck to you.

Answer 9

by re-confronting that trauma, or by talking to a therapist, or taking some medicine for it.