Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome-Escape the Torture

Posted by Patrick Glancy

Thousands of memories make up our lives and our own personal history. Memories can make us laugh, cry, or bring a smile to our face. Often we wish we could relive certain memories everyday and enjoy them or sometimes we wish we could go back and change things. To change a memory is impossible, but with today’s advancing science and other clinical practices, it is not so absolute.

We all love happy memories, just thinking about them can bring a smile to your face or make you laugh. Almost all of us can think of one or two memories we will cherish forever. However there are some people want desperately to get ride of a traumatic experience, it consumes them. Bring raped, abuse, a soldier from war or something as simple as a car accident can be debilitating memories people live with east day. Sometimes these memories hinder them so much, they are unable to function in certain situations or in extreme cases in all aspects of their lives.

Post traumatic stress syndrome can cause people to of depressed, dysfunctional, stressed and anxious just to name a few. Sometimes the person may not know they are suffering form post traumatic stress syndrome, sometimes they find out because of a trigger such as a honking horn or a certain song. The reaction to a memory or trigger can often be severe. Typically people turn to drugs and alcohol to self medicate. But like most addictions, they begin to consume the person only adding to their stress.

Self destructive behaviors such as drug and alcohol abuse are common for people suffering from post traumatic stress syndrome. There is good new though. New treatments are being explored. One of those new treatments is hypnosis. Hypnosis or behavior modification, works with the mind in a unique way. While undergoing hypnosis, you are able to revisit the traumatic memory and learn to look at it in a different way. You learn to deal with your feelings toward the memory in a more positive way instead of letting the feelings consume you and those around you. In some cases you may even be able to forget the memory completely.

There are other treatments in development to help with post traumatic stress syndrome, such as Propranolol, a drug which is used in patients with hypertension, as well as other anesthesias. According to an article in Ottawacitizen.com, a Canadian newspaper, when a drug is injected at the precise moment a person is thinking about a bad memory, studies show that memory can be replaced. This treatment is still in early developments and research but could hold promise in the future. Unfortunately, people with post traumatic stress syndrome, those memories are like a jail for the mind. They need help now.

Hypnosis offers a safe, non invasive, and readily available treatment for those suffering from painful, traumatic memories. No one wants to feel like a prisoner in their own mind or have one memory control everything in their daily lives. These painful memories make everything more difficult, even if they memory it self seems trivial. There are new treatments on the horizon for people who suffer from this condition, there is no need to wait when there is something available to help you now.

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