Trauma and PTSD Treatment

Many individuals can experience symptoms associated with painful and traumatic circumstances. Anxiety, fear, and hopelessness are a few emotions that can linger post traumatic events. We can help you overcome these symptoms and guide you through the process of grief and healing. At PHC Mental Health Counseling Services, we are proud to be a provider for the Camaraderie Foundation, an organization that provides veterans funding. We offer a range of treatment options at our PTSD treatment program near Orlando, Florida.

What Is Trauma?

Trauma is the brain’s reaction to overwhelming and stressful events that impact the individual’s sense of wellbeing and security, causing them to feel helpless and anxious in the world around them. This condition can leave lasting impacts, such as:

• Feelings of numbness and disconnectivity
• Feeling unable to trust people around them
• Anxiety or depression
• Experiencing flashbacks to the traumatic experience
• Feeling upsetting emotions

Experts define a traumatic experience as any occurrence that involves a threat to safety or life as a whole. However, many situations leave people feeling overwhelmed and alone, which can result in trauma, though not all of them involve physical harm. Trauma is not an objective experience. In other words, what is traumatic to one person may not be traumatic to another. The more frightened or helpless the individual experiences, the more likely the person is to develop PTSD.

Everyone reacts to trauma in a different way. Many people experience both emotional and physical reactions. It’s vital not to judge one person’s responses against another’s because there is no right or wrong way to respond to a traumatic experience. Each person’s reactions are their normal response to a specific abnormal event.