PTSD therapy
Healing after horror
PTSD therapy refers to psychological treatments specifically designed to address post-traumatic stress disorder.
Common approaches include cognitive processing therapy, prolonged exposure therapy, and EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing).
These treatments help people process traumatic memories and reduce symptoms like flashbacks, nightmares, and hypervigilance: She's been in PTSD therapy since the accident.
The term appears in both clinical and casual contexts.
- flashbackInvoluntary past memory
- healingRestoration of health
- counselingProfessional guidance for problems
- EMDRTrauma therapy using eye movements
- nightmareFrightening dream causing wakefulness
trigger · survivor · coping · emotional regulation · resilience · recovery · exposure · grounding · anxiety · hypervigilance · veteran · safety · somatic · body memory · processing · inner child · intrusive · fight or flight
- therapypsychotherapy, session, counselor, sessions, patient
- Neurotherapiesdeep brain stimulation, DBS, neuromodulation, brain stimulation, ECT
- psychedelicsLSD, psilocybin, DMT, mescaline, ayahuasca
PTSD therapypsychological trauma
Enduring emotional damage from overwhelm
traumatization · abuse · torture · retraumatization · secondary trauma
PTSD therapysuffering in silence
avoidance · denial · neglect · mental health stigma · going it alone
PTSD therapyavoidance
Deliberate keeping away
repression · dissociation · substance abuse · self-medication · compartmentalization
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