Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is the name given to anxiety disorder when it develops as a result of the sufferer experience an initial 'traumatic' catalyst.

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.