PTSD

Traumatic events often have a long-lasting effect on your emotional and physical well-being, causing anxiety, flashbacks, and the cluster of symptoms that define post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). With support and care from the team at Global Behavioral Healthcare, you can heal and overcome the lingering impact of trauma. They provide help to adults throughout Colorado via telehealth appointments. Call the office based in Denver, Colorado, or request a virtual PTSD consultation online today.

What is PTSD?

PTSD causes long-lasting symptoms after you experience a frightening, life-threatening, or emotionally intense event. You can develop PTSD whether you’re directly involved in the trauma, witness it, or the trauma happens to an important person in your life.

The events that most often cause PTSD include:

• Combat duty
• Physical assault or abuse
• Emotional abuse
• Sexual violence
• Gun violence
• Robberies or home invasions
• Accidents (car, plane, boat, etc.)
• Death of a loved one
• Natural disasters (hurricanes, tornados, and others)

You may have one major trauma or live through many ongoing events, such as active combat duty and frequent emotional or physical abuse.

What are the symptoms of PTSD?

Everyone struggles with fear and worry in the weeks after a traumatic event. If any of the following symptoms last a month or longer, you may have PTSD:

• Anxiety
• Depression
• Flashbacks
• Vivid nightmares
• Isolation from family and friends
• Irritability and anger
• Easily startled or frightened
• Uncharacteristic aggression
• Difficulty sleeping
• Memory loss
• Avoidance

Avoidance means you purposefully stay away from any place, person, or situation that triggers memories of your trauma.

Why do PTSD symptoms suddenly flare up?

You could be enjoying the day and feeling great, then suddenly have a flashback to the trauma and experience overwhelming emotions and behaviors. Never knowing when these flashbacks will occur only adds to your anxiety.

Flashbacks happen because memories of the traumatic event stay tucked in your subconscious. You don’t remember them until something in real life, like a sound, smell, or event, mimics the traumatizing event, pulling it out of your memory and forcing you to relive it.

You can overcome these sudden symptom flare-ups with support and treatment from the team at Global Behavioral Healthcare.

How is PTSD treated?

Global Behavioral Healthcare makes it easy to get the help you need for PTSD by providing comprehensive telehealth services. After evaluating your symptoms and diagnosing PTSD, your provider develops a personalized treatment plan, recommending medication management, behavioral therapy, or both.

Medications are available to relieve PTSD symptoms like anxiety, depression, and uncontrollable anger. Talk therapy is the process that helps you deal with the trauma and learn how to manage your feelings and challenges like flashbacks.

Reach out to Global Behavioral Healthcare for help overcoming trauma and its lingering symptoms. Call the office or request a telehealth appointment today through the online booking feature.