Treatment plays a very crucial role in maintaining your mental health because it restores your life command and domination. On the bases of the severity of symptoms, a treatment plan is developed.
Medication
It might include medication sometimes to treat the physical symptoms. Because when a person experiences some adverse details of an event the lack of sleep, appetite, and nightmares takes the dominance that affects the physical health so dealing with physical symptoms is as important as the thought process.
Anti-depressants:
this medication assists in dealing with the signs of depression. It also deals with sleep problems and boosts concentration.
Anti-anxiety:
it deals with anxiety-related physical symptoms like panic attacks. This drug can be abused so practitioners only recommend it for a short period of time.
Prazosin:
This medicine is used to repress the nightmare caused by the traumatic event. It is anticipated that this drug might decrease or put a stop to nightmares.
Psychotherapy
As the physical symptoms are treated by using the medication the thought and behavior-related symptoms are managed by using psychotherapy.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Talk therapy is where both client and therapist work together and identify those thought processes where a person is stuck. For example, the client might self-blame himself for the death of a loved one, recognizing that thought and restructuring it more logically one help in the treatment.
Cognitive Processing Therapy
This therapy assists a person to change his unhelpful beliefs related to trauma. This therapy required a time of 12 weeks with 60 to 90 minutes of the session. At first, the details of the traumatic events are discussed with the therapist along with the feelings and how did it impact on client’s life. Then the therapist asks to write the whole event down. The purpose of making the client write is that he could evaluate his feeling by himself and during the writing find ways to deal with them. Taking the previous example, a client might tell his therapist it’s his fault that this certain bad thing happens, the therapist asks him to write everything that can not be controlled at the time when the event was occurring by writing it down you eventually accept that it was not his mistake except all the things that supposes to did or did not.
Exposure Therapy
This specifically helps with nightmares and flashbacks. In this technique, the client confronts both memories and situations that make him terrify so that he can survive them. At the start of the therapy, the relaxation technique has been taught to the client so that it can facilitate in the state of anxiety. Afterward, the client and the therapist both make a list of fearful thoughts the client has and then discuss the coping strategy in detail to deal with these. Mostly the coping part is being recorded that the client brings home so that he can listen to himself while giving solutions to the problem. It also helps to boost his self-esteem.
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR)
It is a kind of exposure therapy where the client doesn’t have to tell any detail about the event instead the client focuses on something else like the movement of his hand the lighting flash etc and recall. It helps the person to understand the situation and change it with a more optimal attitude.