If you live with PTSD or chronic anxiety, there's a new and effective treatment that might help you.
Many people lightheartedly joke about "having PTSD" after unpleasant life experiences. But those who live with this debilitating condition know that it's anything but a joke.states that PTSD "is a psychiatric disorder that may occur in people who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event such as a natural disaster, a serious accident, a terrorist act, war/combat, or rape or who have been threatened with death, sexual violence or serious injury.
If you're part of the 3.5% of the U.S. adult population that suffers from PTSD, perhaps you've tried a variety of treatments but these symptoms keep cropping up, lessening your quality of life.Photo: Radharani/Shutterstock.comWhen your brain perceives that you're in danger, it activates the fight-or-flight response, which is also known as the acute stress response.
For decades, doctors and researchers have been working to find a good solution for people who suffer from PTSD. But developing an effective treatment that's safe and fast-acting has proven difficult. One study published onreports that "success rates of PTSD treatments are generally variable, with remission rates that range from 30% to 40%." But now a new treatment called Stellate Ganglion Block is showing promising results and might just offer the relief people are looking for.
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