Defining post traumatic stress

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is is a severe anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to any event those results in acute or ongoing psychological trauma.

Understanding post traumatic stress:

PTSD is an effect of diverse and varied psychological trauma.

PTSD comes in all shapes and sizes. Events which catapult individuals into PTSD may involve the threat of death to oneself or to someone else, or to one’s own or someone else’s physical, sexual, or psychological integrity. These threats overwhelm an individual’s ability to cope.

Diagnostic symptoms for PTSD include re-experiencing the original trauma(s) through flashbacks or nightmares, avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma, and increased arousal – such as difficulty falling or staying asleep, anger, and hyper vigilance. Formal diagnostic criteria maintain that the symptoms last more than one month and result in significant impairment of social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.

Solutions at Fountainhead Retreat:

PTSD is attributed to a variety of causes which typically yields unwanted, unpleasant and unwavering anxiety in you. Cancer, a car accident, death, loss of a job or a relationship are just a short list experiences resulting in PTSD. What you will learn via an 18-28 day healing program at Fountainhead retreat is a tactical series of skills and techniques to reduce the amount of time PTSD affects your daily life.

One such solution via the Fountainhead Method is a two-step technique called Experience Learning – Life Learning. It shows you how to capture important information from unwanted life experiences by finding the objective learning that has come from this experience.

This technique is broken into two parts. The application of this technique helps isolate the belief causing PTSD from the acute traumatic experience in question.

Experience Learning is the process of examining the unwanted experience objectively. We teach you powerful ways to be the fly on the wall so to speak, so you can see the bigger picture behind the experience. Life Learning is about understanding the situation with an accurate view of reality.

With our skilled Life Coaches, Mentors and practitioners, together, we actively reduce the trauma with a delicate, yet pro-active approach allowing you gain greater control of your mental well-being and ultimately your happiness.