INTRODUCTION
PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) is not a mental illness; so what is it?
We all experience unpleasant and traumatic things as we pass through life… unfortunately, those who are born with high creative intellect and who are therefore prone to developing high anxiety conditions, respond inappropriately to those experiences and develop anxiety conditions. Trauma should be dealt with by the brain and like bereavement, for example, the memory should fade and normal behaviours recommence in order to leave the trauma behind, leaving us relatively, physically and mentally unscathed.
Talking about and trying to reason with trauma using talking therapies like CBT, for example, simply allows it to remain constantly conscious instead of the mind dealing with it as it should and allowing it to pass to the deep memory banks in the brain. Does that make sense?
Two people might experience the same trauma but one may have a predisposition to an anxiety condition; one ends up fully functional again very quickly, the one with creative intellect may develop an anxiety conditions such as PTSD. So, in order to eliminate PTSD and all traces of the trauma, it is vital that a technique is used which defocuses away from the consciousness of the trauma and eliminates the inappropriate anxiety.
So how do you treat PTSD?
Although popular psychological practice suggests that Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a ‘stand alone condition’ it is not; PTSD is an anxiety disorder just like generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder and agoraphobia. Psychologists attempt to separate the anxiety disorders, treating them differently to each other by addressing the initial catalysts and the resultant physical manifestations of the symptoms rather than the root cause of the condition. This is so very wrong.
The only difference between PTSD and other anxiety conditions is that there is usually an identifiable anxiety provoking catalyst, but this doesn’t require constant analysis. The resultant physical PTSD symptoms are irrelevant too, they can be distressing and frustrating but ultimately, they are the manifestation of inappropriate anxiety and will retreat as the Linden Method is applied.
CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) asks you to keep anxiety diaries, to ‘grade’ the severity of your anxiety and do other counter productive exercises which have little, if any, curative affect on your anxiety PTSD.
PTSD sufferers often experience ‘flash backs’ and nightmares which remind the sufferer of the anxiety catalyst and cause ongoing distress but anxiety disorder sufferers all suffer inappropriate thoughts, some even, of a very aggressive or sexual nature.
PTSD sufferers may have experienced extreme trauma during military conflicts or accidents for example and the memory of those events may weigh heavily on a day to day basis, but this situation can be corrected very quickly indeed given the correct structure, understanding and support.
We help people with PTSD, regardless of the original catalyst, to recover. Our programme removes the anxiety response that fuels PTSD fast.
