Orlando Trauma PTSD Counseling Therapy: Expert Services – Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

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What is PTSD Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?

PTSD stands for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder which is an anxiety disorder that is related to surviving a traumatic event that can cause panic attacks, in which you feel your life or someone else’s life is threatened. Often times the event may be more individualized, such as a serious car accident, traumatic memories, psychological trauma, physical trauma or sexual abuse, disturbing experiences or animal attack that can cause emotional distress or severe emotional pain. These events can be catastrophic, such as:

  • Natural disasters
  • Terrorist attacks
  • Separation
  • Loss
  • Death of loved ones
  • Effects of divorce
  • Military trauma
  • War zones
  • Violence
  • Assault
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What counseling and therapy services are available for Healing PTSD in Orlando Florida?

PTSD counseling and therapy services in Orlando include individual therapy, group therapy, trauma based – cognitive-behavioral therapy (TB-CBT), eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, and trauma-focused therapy. These services aim to help individuals cope with and provide healing from the effects of PTSD.

Most people respond to life threatening event with some fear after the event, but it goes away after a few months. Even if they develop PTSD after the initial trauma, 1 out of 3 people’s symptoms resolve shortly. Interestingly, some people do not develop symptoms for a long time, months or years after the initial event. For those who lives remain disrupted, cognitive behavioral therapy, among other therapies listed below, is an effective treatment our Orlando area counselors use to bring hope, help and healing to receive relief from the intense suffering from PTSD symptoms:

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Total Life Counseling Center counselors serve Orlando, Winter Park, Lake Mary, East Orlando, and Clermont and our Therapists are Experts for National and Local TV, Radio and Print Media. We have an excellent reputation amongst graduate & private schools, attorneys, doctors, therapists, providers and corporations. We strive to ensure our therapists have diverse clinical backgrounds, to allow us to match each client to the therapist that will best meet his or her needs. Call us at (407) 248-0030

PTSD: What to know

The six symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

If you have been the victim of a car accident, dog bite, sexual assault, rape, robbery, or any other traumatic experience then you can have symptoms of PTSD. If you are suffering from PTSD, there is no reason to suffer long-term from its consequences.

(1) the person experienced, witnessed, or was confronted with an event or events that involved actual or threatened death or serious injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of self or others (2) the person’s response involved intense fear, helplessness, or horror. Note: In children, this may be expressed instead by disorganized or agitated behavior.

(1) recurrent and intrusive distressing recollections of the event, including images, thoughts, or perceptions. Note: In young children, repetitive play may occur in which themes or aspects of the trauma are expressed.

(2) recurrent distressing dreams of the event. Note: In children, there may be frightening dreams without recognizable content.

(3) acting or feeling as if the traumatic event were recurring (includes a sense of reliving the experience, illusions, hallucinations, and dissociative flashback episodes, including those that occur upon awakening or when intoxicated). Note: In young children, trauma-specific reenactment may occur.

(4) intense psychological distress at exposure to internal or external cues that symbolize or resemble an aspect of the traumatic event.

(5) physiological reactivity on exposure to internal or external cues that symbolize or resemble an aspect of the traumatic event.

(1) efforts to avoid thoughts, feelings, or conversations associated with the trauma

(2) efforts to avoid activities, places, or people that arouse recollections of the trauma

(3) inability to recall an important aspect of the trauma

(4) markedly diminished interest or participation in significant activities

(5) feeling of detachment or estrangement from others

(6) restricted range of affect (e.g., unable to have loving feelings)

(7) sense of a foreshortened future (e.g., does not expect to have a career, marriage, children, or a normal life span)

(1) difficulty falling or staying asleep

(2) irritability or outbursts of anger

(3) difficulty concentrating

(4) hypervigilance

(5) exaggerated startle response

Criterion 2: The traumatic event is persistently re-experienced

Criterion 3: Persistent avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma and numbing of general responsiveness (not present before the trauma)

Criterion 4: Persistent symptoms of increased arousal (not present before the trauma)

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Acute: if duration of symptoms is less than 3 months

Chronic: if duration of symptoms is 3 months or more

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With Delayed Onset: if onset of symptoms is at least 6 months after the stressor

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Research has shown that one can’t choose how they react to trauma. You body has a sympathetic nervous system and depending on all sorts of factors, your brain decides on whether to put you into fight or flight.

What are the symptoms or behaviors as a result of PTSD from a Car Accident?

I recently received a phone call asking, “Is it possible to have PTSD after a car wreck? I thought this disorder mainly occurred in veterans or child abuse survivors.”

Absolutely! Car accidents can certainly be traumatic! You don’t have to experience military combat or childhood abuse to develop it. The probability of developing PTSD increases if you or someone else was seriously injured, felt out of control, believed you were in grave danger, or experienced a previous car accident or another traumatic incident.

People rarely expect that a car accident could have such far ranging psychological consequences as PTSD. After an accident, people may fear riding in a car, driving by the accident site, jump when they hear sirens, experience nightmares, and may not be able to articulate what happened to them. Getting to sleep or remain sleeping at night may become a problem. These are a few of the symptoms that can occur following a car wreck. However after a few months, most people’s fear and anxiety dissipate. However with PTSD, these symptoms continue to persist and interfere with their lives. I often work with insurance companies and lawyers to provide treatment for their clients. A self-report test is given initially to see if there are sufficient symptoms to warrent a diagnosis of PTSD. This test also determines the severity of the symptoms and ways in which the accident has disrupted a person’s life. View more symptoms at the bottom of this page.

Grief counseling may be called upon when a person suffers anticipatory grief, for someone may feel that a loved one is going to die but it’s not likely. Anticipatory mourning also occurs when a loved one has a terminal illness. This can handicap that person’s ability to stay present whilst simultaneously holding onto, letting go of, and drawing closer to the dying relative.

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What about PTSD from a Dog Bite?

Cartoons represent dog bites as silly, seemingly harmless events. The truth is far more serious. A large percentage of dog attacks leave their victims with debilitating scars, both physical and psychological. The sound of dogs barking or even venturing outdoors can become a fear provoking situation. Because dogs target the face, neck and head of a child, reconstructive surgery is often required. Even with these surgeries, a child may remain disfigured. So not only do these children have to face corrective surgery, they also may have difficulty finding friends. It is not unusual for children as well as adults to suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) from dog attacks. These attacks may remain very traumatic and stress provoking long after the bites occur.

If you have suffered from a dog bite and have continued fears, nightmares, and difficulties handling difficult situations with life, call us for a PTSD evaluation (407) 248-0030. It is possible to recover from this trauma and gain a better capacity to deal with the difficulties stemming from this very terrifying occurrence.

The Center for Disease Center and the American Veterinarian Association reveal a great deal of statistical information about dog bites. Did you know that: Children are the most frequent targets.

  1. The highest incident rate is for 5-9 year olds
  2. For children 10 and under, 77% of injuries are to the face, neck, and head
  3. The family dog was the aggressor in 47% of the attacks on children 4 and under.
  4. 4.7 million attacks per year 800,000 of these require medical attention 386,000 require emergency room treatment 32 people died in 2007 from dog mauling and 3 of those were in Florida
  5. Three breeds most likely to bite are Pit bulls, Rottweilers and German Shepards
  6. Pit bulls comprise 1/3 of all fatal dog bites
  7. Male dogs ages 1-5 are three times more likely to bite than spayed or neutered animals
  8. Chained dogs are 2.8 times more likely to bite than unchained dogs
  9. Majority of dog attacks occurred at home or at a friend’s house Insurance companies pay out about $1 billion dollars per year due to dog bites
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