Posttraumatic Stress Disorder can be successfully treated with EMDR Therapy. EMDR was first used to treat PTSD. It is wonderful when clients now longer have the following behaviors.
Posttruamatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Behaviors:
- Has been exposed to a traumatic event involving actual or perceived threat of death or serious injury.
- Responses of intense fear, helplessness, or horror to the traumatic event.
- Experiences disturbing and persistent thoughts, images, and/or perceptions of the traumatic event.
- Experiences frequent nightmares.
- Describes a reliving of the event, particularly through dissociative flashbacks.
- Displays significant psychological and/or physiological distress resulting from internal and external clues that are reminiscent of the traumatic event.
- Intentionally avoids thoughts, feelings, or discussions related to the traumatic event.
- Intentionally avoids activities, places, people, or objects (e.g., up-armored vehicles) that evoke memories of the event.
- Displays a significant decline in interest and engagement in activities.
- Experiences disturbances in sleep.
- Has difficulty concentrating as well as feelings of guilt.
- Has hypervigilance.
- Demonstrates an exaggerated startle response.
- Symptoms present more than one month.
- Impairment in social, occupational, or other areas of functioning.
- Reports of childhood physical, sexual, and/or emotional abuse.
- Description of parents as physically or emotionally neglectful as they were chemically dependent, too busy, absent, etc.
- Description of childhood as chaotic as parent(s) was substance abuser (or mentally ill, antisocial, etc.), leading to frequent moves, multiple abusive spousal partners, frequent substitute caretakers, financial pressures, and/or many step-siblings.
- Reports of emotionally repressive parents who were rigid, perfectionist, threatening, demeaning, hypercritical, and/or overly religious.
- Irrational fears, suppressed rage, low self-esteem, identity conflicts, depression, or anxious insecurity related to painful early life experiences.
Childhood Trauma Behaviors:
- Reports of childhood physical, sexual, and/or emotional abuse.
- Parents were physically or emotionally neglectful as they were chemically dependent, too busy, absent, etc.
- Childhood was chaotic as parent(s) was substance abuser (or mentally ill, antisocial, etc.), leading to frequent moves, multiple abusive spousal partners, frequent substitute caretakers, financial pressures, and/or many step-siblings.
- Emotionally repressive parents who were rigid, perfectionist, threatening, demeaning, hypercritical, and/or overly religious.
- Irrational fears, suppressed rage, low self-esteem, identity conflicts, depression, or anxious insecurity related to painful early life experiences.
- Dissociation phenomenon (multiple personality, amnesia, trance state, and/or depersonalization) as a maladaptive coping mechanism resulting from childhood emotional pain.
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