We've heard so many stories of veterans who live with PTSD in Iraq and Afghanistan or vets who come home and struggle with PTSD. For a long time, there was a stigma around the kinds of emotional pain and traumatic stress that vets were experiencing, and they tried to hide it from friends, family, other soldiers and vets, and doctors. This may be changing. As it's becoming known that PTSD is, in a way, a "normal" reaction to experiencing the horrors of war-seeing buddies die or get injured, killing other people, being injured oneself-soldiers and vets are feeling less fear that they'll be stigmatized and are accepting the fact that they're suffering from PTSD.
PTSD is painful and has consequences in one's life
As a veteran of wars, knowing that you have PTSD and accepting the fact is a good first step. That doesn't take away the emotional pain, though. It's with you every day. There are a number of treatments being used to try to help vets heal from the symptoms of PTSD. Many take a long time; many offer only partial success.
Symptoms of PTSD
The symptoms of PTSD tend to be similar, whether they're caused by war experiences or other terrifying or painful experiences. Some examples include:
Recurring nightmares similar to the terrifying or painful event(s)
Recurring intrusive images, body feelings and/or emotions that evoke the event(s)
Difficulty sleeping
Difficulty concentrating, spaciness
Quick anger or sadness; chronic sadness or depression; emotional pain
Feeling separate from life, from what's happening or even from your body
Difficulty enjoying things you used to enjoy
Difficulty feeling connected to others; feeling you can't love anymore
A feeling of isolation
Chronic grief
EFT for PTSD
Although war experiences are very different from experiences that most people will ever go through, the way you're suffering with PTSD is similar to that experienced by anyone who has experienced severe threat in their lives. There are some differences, of course, include survivor's guilt, guilt around your own violence toward others, the feeling that no one can understand what you've gone through and culture shock when you come back to civilian life.
With an experienced EFT Practitioner/psychotherapist, EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) is a method that is often extremely effective and relatively quick in healing symptoms of PTSD. It takes away the negative charge from traumatic experiences and gives traumatized people distance from the trauma. After relatively few sessions, clients often experience traumatic events as being far away from them, the emotional pain is gone. It becomes just matter of fact, like watching a movie from a great distance. Relationships improve and your ability to get on with life in the civilian world also improves.
Zoe Zimmermann, MA, LPC is a Certified EFT Practitioner and long-time licensed psychotherapist. She uses EFT Tapping as her modality for fast breakthroughs with core issues and specializes in clients who suffer with PTSD from accidents, surgeries, abuse, dysfunctional family dynamics, other traumas and physical pain.
EFT is an exceptionally effective energy psychology and alternative therapy, where EFT Tapping on acupuncture meridian pressure points is used to take emotional charge out of traumatic and painful memories and experiences, often alleviating pain.
Zoe conducts in-person, phone or Skype sessions. Schedule a session now by calling 303-444-1195 or visit Zoe Zimmermann's website.
By Zoe Zimmermann
Article Source: EFT for Vets With PTSD
PTSD is painful and has consequences in one's life
As a veteran of wars, knowing that you have PTSD and accepting the fact is a good first step. That doesn't take away the emotional pain, though. It's with you every day. There are a number of treatments being used to try to help vets heal from the symptoms of PTSD. Many take a long time; many offer only partial success.
Symptoms of PTSD
The symptoms of PTSD tend to be similar, whether they're caused by war experiences or other terrifying or painful experiences. Some examples include:
Recurring nightmares similar to the terrifying or painful event(s)
Recurring intrusive images, body feelings and/or emotions that evoke the event(s)
Difficulty sleeping
Difficulty concentrating, spaciness
Quick anger or sadness; chronic sadness or depression; emotional pain
Feeling separate from life, from what's happening or even from your body
Difficulty enjoying things you used to enjoy
Difficulty feeling connected to others; feeling you can't love anymore
A feeling of isolation
Chronic grief
EFT for PTSD
Although war experiences are very different from experiences that most people will ever go through, the way you're suffering with PTSD is similar to that experienced by anyone who has experienced severe threat in their lives. There are some differences, of course, include survivor's guilt, guilt around your own violence toward others, the feeling that no one can understand what you've gone through and culture shock when you come back to civilian life.
With an experienced EFT Practitioner/psychotherapist, EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) is a method that is often extremely effective and relatively quick in healing symptoms of PTSD. It takes away the negative charge from traumatic experiences and gives traumatized people distance from the trauma. After relatively few sessions, clients often experience traumatic events as being far away from them, the emotional pain is gone. It becomes just matter of fact, like watching a movie from a great distance. Relationships improve and your ability to get on with life in the civilian world also improves.
Zoe Zimmermann, MA, LPC is a Certified EFT Practitioner and long-time licensed psychotherapist. She uses EFT Tapping as her modality for fast breakthroughs with core issues and specializes in clients who suffer with PTSD from accidents, surgeries, abuse, dysfunctional family dynamics, other traumas and physical pain.
EFT is an exceptionally effective energy psychology and alternative therapy, where EFT Tapping on acupuncture meridian pressure points is used to take emotional charge out of traumatic and painful memories and experiences, often alleviating pain.
Zoe conducts in-person, phone or Skype sessions. Schedule a session now by calling 303-444-1195 or visit Zoe Zimmermann's website.
By Zoe Zimmermann
Article Source: EFT for Vets With PTSD
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