Treatment of Complex PTSD

There are a few ways of studies of treatment to complex PTSD, such as clinical treatment. For clinical treatment, it can follow these steps. At first, remove and protection from the source of the trauma or abuse. In cognitive therapy, the therapist will helps you to understand and manage your trauma and its aftermath. You should understand what make you stress and make your symptoms worse.You will learn to identify thoughts about the others and yourself, it is making you feel fear or anxiety. With the assistance of therapist, you will learn to replace these thoughts with more accurate and relax thoughts. You will also learn ways to cope with feelings such as guilt, afraid and conflict. After a traumatic event, you might blame yourself for things you couldn't have changed. For example, a girl may feel guilty by wrapped, but the thing happened lost her control and thinking. 

According cognitive therapy of CBT that helps you understand that the traumatic event you lived through was not your fault. Then, separation of residual problems into those that the victim can resolve, such as personal improvement goals. And those that the victim cannot resolve,such as the behavior of a disordered family member. During this stage, the victim maybe experienced a period of recovery time and treatment, her mood and physical condition have a certain improvement. But there are some problems still in the deep heart, it takes longer to recover. He can try to adjust his own feeling, to develop a new plan, such as positive to life, try to make own feelings peaceful or to avoid irritation. During this time, it also need to fit behavior of family members, learn how to communication with them and decrease the family problem. Apparently, victim cannot control others’ behavior and thinking, so he needs to understand how to get along with family members. 

The third way is focus on to be improved in an individual's life that is under their own control. The victim who is sensitive, can not tolerate thing happened by he can not control. It may cause his injury again and too emotional, can not take care of themselves and so on. So when he tries to improve his life, it must be based on his own circumstances and can bear the scope. More, placement in a supportive environment, where the victim can discover they are not alone. With this stage can use group therapy, you can join a group which a group of people also have been through a trauma and complex PTSD. To talk to someone, maybe you will feel better about your trauma. Group therapy can detect your symptoms and memories of trauma, and recover it. It also  helps you build new relationships. You can learn how to deal with emotions, to build self-confidence and trust. You'll decrease attention of past, to try to find your own life.  As necessary and required,personal therapy to promote self-discovery, prescription of antidepressant medications. 

As we know, sometimes something happened so suddenly, the victim can not control his emotion, so it needs the medicine to reduce fear and mad. Generally, the doctor will give the antidepressant medicine, such as citalopram (Celexa), paroxetine (Paxil), and sertraline (Zoloft). The chemicals will ease the burden, to effect your brain. For example, the victim cannot out of the past experience, always want to kill himself or lost control. At this time he needs help of doctor. After a period of time to treatment, the victim should give the feedback to your doctor, then doctor to according his situation to choose medications treatment for you.

Reference

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