How to Stop Prescriptions for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

When we give those people SSRIs, which are the only FDA approved treatments currently and we give them benzodiazepines, they actually numb us to our own feelings. So it wasn't that much of a surprise to me why they weren't getting better because it kind of violated the psychotherapeutic model when we were being taught both. And so I started asking people, what actually helps you feel better? And they started asking your patients. If this isn't helping you, what do you do? They're like, we listen to music. We hold pets. We hug our family. You try to spend time with their families. Okay. It's not that you can't

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