Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can manifest as prolonged sleep disturbance, nightmares, flashbacks, anxiety, and challenging emotions and behaviors in anyone who survives trauma. For compassionate care and effective treatments, visit Even Better Mood Clinic in Irvine, California, where George Tun, MD, offers in-person and telehealth care for individuals with PTSD. To schedule your consultation today, contact the office by phone or online.
PTSD comes from trauma. This trauma might be experiencing or witnessing something upsetting or frightening or surviving a life-threatening event.
While it’s expected to need time to recover from a devastating event and to feel complex emotions like anxiety, if symptoms persist a month or longer, you need support from compassionate professionals.
PTSD can result from:
PTSD can arise after a single traumatic event or surviving months or years of long-standing abuse.
Anxiety is common. However, PTSD is more complex. You may experience a range of symptoms that typically fall under four distinct categories.
To feel safe, you may keep away from anything that reminds you of what happened. That may mean finding ways around talking about the trauma and also avoiding events, activities, objects, or people connected with it.
This occurs when you feel like you are reliving the experience, whether through nightmares or sudden flashbacks.
You may notice that your thoughts and feelings change, resulting in:
You may feel burdened with blame for the traumatic event, even when logic tells you it wasn’t your fault.
Your behavior may change in other ways, such as being more easily angered, startled, or self-destructive.
Getting in touch with experienced providers is an important step of self-compassion. The team at Even Better Mood Clinic completes a thorough psychiatric evaluation and creates a care plan personalized to your unique situation.
While every person heals from trauma differently, many benefit from psychotherapy (talk therapy) and medication management. You may need one or both to help you cope as you improve.
Medication can help manage lingering depression or anxiety, and therapy provides essential tools to process your feelings healthily. Your provider gives you a safe place to acknowledge what you’ve been through, address negative thoughts, and learn new skills to come back stronger.
If conventional medications haven’t helped, Even Better Mood Clinic also offers innovative treatments like transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) — a noninvasive technique that research shows safely eases depressive symptoms of PTSD.
You can find support for PTSD from the Even Better Mood Clinic team. Book an in-person or telemedicine appointment through the online schedule or by calling the office today.