Healing the Wounds Within
Overcome Trauma, Reclaim Life
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is a debilitating emotional condition that usually does not develop until a long time after a traumatic experience. It can take months or even years for them to surface.
PTSD was once thought to affect only war veterans; however, any devastating traumatic event can lead to PTSD. These events include car, ship, or train wrecks, airplane crashes, the collapse of a building, and natural disasters such as floods, tornadoes, or earthquakes. Additionally, personal violence, including mugging, rape, kidnapping, torture, or being trapped in a cave-in or elevator, can also be triggers. A person who develops PTSD may have been directly harmed, may have experienced harm to a loved one, or may have witnessed a harmful event affecting loved ones or strangers.
What are some indicators of PTSD?
Unexplained outbursts of anger, aggression, grief, and irritability are common. There may be persistent feelings of depression, despair, shame, and guilt, as well as feelings of betrayal, profound loss, and hopelessness. PTSD can include persistent anxiety, irritability, an inability to be close to others, fear of innocuous places or things, inability to feel emotions, consistent overreactions to insignificant events, insomnia, and poor concentration. Flashbacks or fragmented images of the event may occur, along with episodes of overwhelming anxiety, panic attacks, and terrifying nightmares in which the sufferer feels helpless. Physical symptoms like headaches, gastrointestinal distress, immune system problems, dizziness, chest pain, or discomfort in other parts of the body are common in people with PTSD.
The anniversary of an event can be overwhelming. The late Dr. Norwood Russell Hanson, who served as a Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, was a fighter pilot on a Navy carrier during World War II. During one battle, he was unable to participate in a mission with his squadron due to a severe cold. Every one of his squadron mates was killed when a bomb exploded in the middle of the squadron while waiting to take off. He could never overcome the guilt of not having died alongside his comrades.
Until his passing in 1967 in the crash of his World War II Grumman F8F fighter aircraft, Hanson was unable to get out of bed on the anniversaries of that ill-fated mission.
Can SHEN Therapy help recovery from PTSD? Yes, it can. At the very least, SHEN will speed recovery. SHEN works very well on its own and works effectively in conjunction with one of the more traditional therapies.