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If you or a loved one may have PTSD, it is important for you to know that many treatment options are available.
We connect you with Licensed clinicians who match your needs and goals.
Your clinician performs a thorough evaluation of your symptoms and develops a personalized treatment plan.
Your clinician maintains a proper level of care through therapy sessions while staying connected with your support system. If appropriate, your clinician can refer you to a psychiatric clinician at LifeStance for evaluation and medication management.
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What Is PTSD?
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition that people sometimes develop in response to a traumatic event.
People with PTSD have intense and often disturbing thoughts and feelings related to their experience long after the traumatic event occurred. They may relive the event through flashbacks or nightmares, they may feel sadness, fear, anger, and may feel detached or estranged from other people.
What Are the Symptoms of PTSD?
Mental health care providers recognize four distinct types of PTSD symptoms:
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Therapy Options
Psychologists and licensed therapists can help people with PTSD find healthy ways to process the trauma they experienced. These professionals can use several types of counseling to help patients, including:
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychotherapy technique used to treat anxiety, PTSD, panic, trauma, and more. EMDR therapy reconnects a traumatized person to the images, thoughts, emotions, and body sensations associated with their particular trauma to help them process it and begin to heal.
Unlike other treatments that focus directly on altering the emotions, thoughts, and responses resulting from traumatic experiences, EMDR therapy focuses directly on the memory to help change the way that the memory is stored in the brain, and to reduce or eliminate the problematic symptoms associated with that memory.
Medication Management Options
While medication is not right for everyone, many patients do find success with prescription medication. For some of these individuals, medication is necessary only in the short term. Other patients may need long-term medication to treat chronic PTSD.
Whether taking medication for acute or chronic PTSD, every patient taking medication needs to engage in medication management to ensure the safety and efficacy of their prescription medication. Effective medication management is a crucial part of mental health care. People with PTSD often benefit from taking prescription medications such as:
Online Treatment Options for PTSD
When safe and appropriate, online appointments can serve as an additional way for psychiatrists and therapists to provide mental health services to those suffering from PTSD who cannot come into their offices for in-person appointments.
PTSD Treatment FAQs
While PTSD usually results from a short-lived trauma, Complex PTSD (CPTSD) develops from repeated trauma experienced over months or even years. People with CPTSD often have a difficult time controlling their emotions.
Having PTSD does not mean that you are disabled. However, if your PTSD symptoms are so severe that they affect your ability to function at work and at home, then your PTSD could be considered a disability in some contexts.
Talk to someone who can help. LifeStance is your online and in-person resource for finding the right mental health professionals to deal with PTSD and other related mental health issues.
