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Breaking the Stigma: 5 Common Myths About PTSD, Debunked
When you understand mental health troubles like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), life gets a little bit easier. Symptoms that were confusing and hard to handle become easier to predict and manage. Finding the accommodations you need to live life to the fullest becomes possible. And, as you learn more about the trauma behind your PTSD and how it’s impacted you, you can finally start to heal for good.
Experienced medical provider and veteran Dr. Bryant S. Edwards debunks myths about PTSD from his practice at Iconic Infusions, PLLC, located in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He provides holistic PTSD treatment and support, including ketamine infusion therapy treatments that can help you move past trauma and recover your mental health.
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and Dr. Edwards wants you to know the truth behind these five common myths and misconceptions about PTSD.
Myth #1: PTSD is a sign of weakness
The truth is, developing PTSD doesn’t mean that you’re weak. It just means that you’ve been through a difficult experience or experiences in the past. Those past traumas have injured your mental health, resulting in disruptive and difficult symptoms like flashbacks, nightmares, anxiety, depression, and insomnia.
Having PTSD doesn’t show weakness any more than receiving any other injury. Dr. Edwards respects what his PTSD patients have survived and appreciates their bravery in seeking treatment.
Myth #2: PTSD gets better without treatment
Some people believe that if you power through your PTSD symptoms for long enough, you’ll recover on your own. There are a few things about this perspective that need to be debunked.
You deserve to find peace and not continue to endure ongoing impacts from your past trauma. It’s unkind to yourself to force yourself to suffer through symptoms without support.
It’s also important to know that PTSD is very treatable with professional care, but doesn’t typically go away on its own. Your symptoms may worsen over time, becoming more intense and further damaging your quality of life.
Myth #3: PTSD only affects military veterans
While it’s true that veterans often suffer from PTSD, many kinds of trauma can lead to the development of symptoms. Physical and emotional harm leaves lasting impacts on your mental health. Childhood trauma, sexual abuse or domestic violence, or the experience of systemic abuse can all cause PTSD. Women and racial and ethnic minorities face higher lifetime risks of developing PTSD.
Myth #4: If you have PTSD, you’ll know for sure
You might think that PTSD symptoms come on immediately following a traumatic event, and are easy to identify as impacts of trauma. But your symptoms may actually be difficult for you to understand.
Sometimes, PTSD symptoms seem worse once you feel safer and more secure, as your brain begins to process the experiences you’ve been through. This makes it challenging to connect your symptoms to the events that triggered your PTSD. You may also believe that your mental health symptoms come from an anxiety disorder or depression, when they really relate to lingering harm from past trauma.
Myth #5: There’s only one way to treat PTSD
Do you know someone who thinks that there’s only one right way to treat PTSD? In fact, your outcomes are better when your team approaches your care with flexibility and informed knowledge about different types of PTSD treatment.
This condition often responds well to approaches like talk therapy and medication management. In addition to talking to a mental health professional about your symptoms and traumatic past, you may benefit from ketamine infusion therapy, available to you through Iconic Infusions, PLLC. Ketamine allows your brain to move on from trauma and create new pathways for a more peaceful future.
To learn more about ketamine treatment for PTSD, contact Iconic Infusions, PLLC online or over the phone today.
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