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Online Therapy for PTSD

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can happen to a person after experiencing a traumatic event that has caused them to feel fearful, horror, shocked, or helpless. It can have long-term effects, including flashbacks, difficulty sleeping, and anxiety. If you or a loved one is dealing with trauma and PTSD, it’s crucial to find a therapist and start a trauma treatment process as soon as possible.

Examples of events that can result in PTSD include wars, crimes, fires, natural disasters, serious accidents, death of a loved one, terrorism, threat of death, sexual or physical violence, abuse of some form, and also if they witnessed a loved one suffer such events. Thoughts and memories recur even though the danger has passed often for many years. It is thought to affect between 7 and 8 percent of the population, and women are more likely to be affected than men.

The symptoms can include depression, anxiety, phobias, nightmares, flashbacks and a sensation that the event is happening again, fearful thoughts, difficulty sleeping, irritability and angry outbursts, hypersensitivity to possible dangers, feeling tense and anxious, refusing to discuss the event, avoiding situations that remind the person of the event, inability to remember some aspects of the event, feelings of guilt and blame, feeling detached and estranged from others and emotionally and mentally numbed, having a reduced interest in life, difficulty concentrating, among others. In addition, the symptoms must lead to distress or difficulty coping with work or relationships, higher risk of chronic illness or heart problems.

Children who have experienced sexual abuse are more likely to: feel fear, sadness, anxiety, and isolation, have a low sense of self-worth, behave in an aggressive manner, display unusual sexual behavior, hurt themselves, misuse drugs or alcohol.
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