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May 14, 2011, 01:54 AM
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Member Since: Jun 2009
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Would please, like to post another treatment (Stellate Ganglion Block) for PTSD. but also including, at the end, the more conventional ones. Maybe by working with each of these in each particular instance as appropriate, the trauma of PTSD can be reversed, or at least lessened. It‘s a devastating condition.
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http://www.psychological.com/forums/showthread.php?649-Stellate-Ganglion-Blocks-for-PTSD
Case reports of immediate, durable, and significant reductions in symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are now appearing in the literature following the use of stellate ganglion block (SGB) in severe PTSD unresponsive to medical intervention.
SGB decreases nerve growth factor and helps reverse PTSD symptoms. These MRI are telling us that the cause of PTSD is physical in nature and is not simply a psychological condition. -- Dr. Adams, Clinical Director -- Atlanta Medical Psychology
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http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/721079
Trauma … leads to an increase in nerve growth factor. This in turn leads to a sprouting of sympathetic nerves, he adds, which increases the production of a number of neurotransmitters. including adrenaline, which makes people anxious. SGB decreases nerve growth factor and helps reverse PTSD symptoms.
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(but for the more conventional approaches to treatment of PTSD…)
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http://fyiliving.com/mental-health/stress/ptsd/ptsd-impact-on-immune-system/
The journal article also mentions that excessive inflammation produced by the immune system may contribute to declining health in people with PTSD and that treating PTSD may reduce these health risks. Therefore, not only do psychotherapy and psychiatric medications help alleviate the signs and symptoms of PTSD, but they also contribute to the improvement and prevention of physical illness and could possibly increase the longevity of PTSD sufferers. Other methods of decreasing anxiety, including social support, meditation, and exercise have been found to decrease anxiety disorders and depression.
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having posted all this, would like to say i know personally someone who has developed the immune system disorders because of a lifetime of abuse and resulting PTSD. maybe a combination of treatments is in order to address each person's particular mental AND resulting physical sufferings. i've very hesitant now to refer to it as brain injury. having read all the posts, i think that the changes on a genetic level create the physical illnesses now known to be linked to PTSD. but PTSD can still be seen as the psychological result of abuse created by extreme trauma and suffering.
i guess it's like stress causing heart attacks. extreme anxiety can lead to all kinds of physiological conditions, even simple things like diarrhea, or headaches. and using electroshock for depression -- that still confuses me. but guess it's all interconnected.
anyway, IMHO, when i suffer from something "mental" i'll go to the ends of the earth to try anything and everything to try and make the suffering stop. with my bipolar disorder, hearing it's a chemical imbalance doesn't help when the nightmares wake me up in a cold sweat or the abyss makes me want to check out for good.
take care all. signing off for a while now. (did i hear somebody say "thank God!")? 
 anyway
Last edited by DancingAlone; May 14, 2011 at 02:15 AM.
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