PTSD

Articles About PTSD from Lori Calabrese, MD | The Ketamine Blog

Our purpose in offering these articles about PTSD is to reduce stigma. It’s also to help the reader better understand the causes and symptoms of PTSD. Better understanding helps each of us to offer support to those in our lives who need understanding for episodes they’re unable to prevent.

Post-traumatic-stress-disorder (PTSD) occurs following a terrifying experience, in some people. It prevents the sufferer from recovering after witnessing a traumatic event. PTSD can last for months or years. In addition, memories of the event can trigger extreme physical and emotional reactions.

Symptoms of PTSD

The scars that remain from active combat or other traumas cause recurring memories that seem as real as when they first happened. Originally known as “shell shock, PTSD was thought to be exclusive to soldiers returning from battle. But over time, it became clear that PTSD was a disorder anyone could develop who’d been through a traumatic experience.

When someone suffers from PTSD can have recurring flashbacks of the terror they experienced during the traumatic event, as well as intense nightmares. They may feel afraid, or intensely frightened, whether there is anything presently threatening or not.  It’s as though their “fight-flight” response malfunctions, and a small stimulus can bring all the horror of the initial experience back instantly.

PTSD affects around 8 million people a year in the US. These people who suffer have been far too often misunderstood and misjudged for their reactions.

Articles About PTSD Treatment

Talk therapy

The most widely used treatment for PTSD is talk therapy. By talking through the traumatic memories, as well as those moments that seem to trigger the flashbacks, the individual can sometimes learn a healthier response to the trigger.

Medications

Medicines are used in some cases to help patients cope with their anxiety and anger in the face of an unrelated situation that stimulates the reaction, i.e., a trigger. Since adrenalin is a hormone that’s released in overabundance with each trigger point, addressing the individual’s hormonal reactions sometimes improves relief.

IV Ketamine infusions

This treatment makes a remarkable difference in many cases of PTSD. The Veterans Administration works with IV ketamine to treat PTSD in combat veterans, and has for years with excellent results. And IV ketamine shows remarkable outcomes for people with a wide variety of PTSD causes. PTSD from major disasters, to domestic violence, assault, battery, and rape, to catastrophic illnesses, transportation accidents, and other disastrous injuries.

IV ketamine isn’t for everyone. No treatment is. But chances are it will help you enjoy a dramatic relief from symptoms of PTSD.

More studies show IV ketamine infusions can also prevent PTSD in combat military and first responders. Extraordinary.

By offering these articles about PTSD, we hope to increase understanding and compassion for those who suffer, and drive back stigma with factual information.

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Birth Trauma? Ketamine Treatment Can Help Heal PTSD

PTSD from birth trauma can heal with ketamine treatment.

Madison took a deep breath, then let it out slowly. Trying to calm herself, she knew her reaction wasn’t rational. Her husband had gently stroked her arm, but she’d been asleep. That touch triggered panic. She was flailing her arms and kicking before she knew what she was doing. As wakefulness turned on the lights […]

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Has Shattered Trust Caused PTSD? Find Your Joy and Hope Now

Shattered trust in business and friendship can splinter your confidence.

Kevin recoiled. He put his hand on the wall to steady himself. His business partner of 11 years, Max, informed him that he’d invited a new profit-sharing partner, William, into the business because he had so many fresh ideas. Trouble was, Max hadn’t discussed it with him! Kevin felt shocked, betrayed, and deeply hurt. Ever […]

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IV Ketamine for PTSD Symptoms from Severe Abuse Trauma

Severe abuse trauma causes PTSD but IV ketamine can relieve it.

Celeste quivered in the dark recesses of the closet… trying to breathe ever so quietly. She didn’t want to alert her husband to her hiding place. His violent assaults had become more and more severe…she could feel her eye throbbing and her lip swelling, but the worst was the soreness in her neck. He had […]

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Devastating Divorce?  You CAN Recover and Live Well Again

A devastating divorce can rob you of the energy to function.

Jenn was stunned. She read the text message again, to be sure she had not misunderstood. Her husband of 13 years said, “I don’t want to be married anymore.” Her stomach knotted, she felt herself go pale. She was driving, so she pulled the car over for safety, because she couldn’t see what was in […]

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When Trauma Sabotages Your Life – You Can Overcome It!

When trauma sabotages your life, overcome it with ketamine.

Stephanie was a happily married thirty-something woman with 3 young children. She adored her husband and after 12 years of marriage, she still felt a thrill every time they held hands or caught each other’s eye. She fully expected the spark between them would see them through good times and bad, and they worked at […]

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How PTSD Causes Brain Fog and What You Can Do About It

PTSD causes brain fog making it hard to concentrate.

When you go through trauma, it affects both your body and your mind. As time goes by after the trauma is over,  you may experience a slow sluggishness in your thinking as well as in your focus that can interfere with your life. Just as the name suggests, brain fog is a lack of clarity […]

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PTSD Permeates Our World with a State of Post Traumatic Stress

PTSD is currently in our world.

Since the Uvalde, Texas shooting at Robb Elementary on May 24 where 22 people were killed and 18 wounded, 40 more mass shootings have occurred in this country. As we spoke about in our post Shooters are Terrorizing Us, people who hear or read about these terrible events struggle to make sense of them, and […]

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Shooters Are Terrorizing Us

Shooters are killing people, but IV ketamine can heal the trauma they cause.

Shooters are Killing People We have a tradition in this country of excusing and explaining away the actions of a terrorizing shooter by declaring him mentally ill. We’re talking about shooters—the ones who open fire in a crowded public space and gun down the innocent. I hesitate to enter this dialogue but I feel compelled […]

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