Is It PTSD or TBI? | CYBCYL with Daniel Amen M.D. and Tana Amen B.S.N. R.N.

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New medical research from Amen Clinics advances treatment options for veterans with PTSD or other brain injuries.
Every day millions of people are suffering from trauma to their brain…both emotional and physical.
It is estimated that each year 1 out of 30 U.S. adults suffers with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a result of emotional trauma.
Additionally, it is estimated that there are about 1.7 million emergency room visits for traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the U.S. each year. That’s on top of the hundreds of thousands of unreported incidents of head trauma, including undiagnosed concussions.
And in many cases, people may be dealing with BOTH!
Did you know that PTSD and TBI can mimic each other symptomatically?
Consider these symptoms:
• Problems with sleep
• Anger and irritability
• Depressive symptoms
• Social isolation
• Increased or excessive anxiety
All of these symptoms can occur with both PTSD and TBI. If we just look at the symptoms, how do we know which we are dealing with? And many people may be dealing with both!
Scientists can now differentiate PTSD from other brain injuries with greater accuracy through brain imaging technology. An exciting new study that has been accepted for publication in an outstanding scientific journal, Brain Imaging and Behavior, demonstrates that the Amen Clinics diagnostic process can distinguish between people who’ve had emotional trauma versus those whose brains have been physically traumatized nearly 94% of the time.
So why is it important to separate the two? Because even though the two disorders may look the same from the outside, the treatment for each disorder can be radically different.
The treatment for PTSD and emotional trauma is psychological in nature and the goal is to try and calm down the brain. However, the treatment for TBI is physiological in nature and focuses on ways to heal the injury and increase activity in the brain.
Without looking at the brain, you may never know which you are dealing with. It all starts with looking at your brain to see where you’re at and then working to optimize it.
You’re not stuck with the brain you have!
In this week’s short video, Dr. Daniel Amen and his wife Tana Amen talk about the connection between PTSD and TBI, including personal stories and examples of how they have dealt with emotional and physical trauma and the tools that work!
Here are just a few of the incredible things you will learn:
• 5 powerful steps you can take to heal from PTSD and TBI
• 3 recommended supplements to calm the brain
• How to avoid the negative affects that PTSD and TBI can have on your relationships
• 3 ways that people self-medicate and how the short term benefits are outweighed by the long term damage
• And the type of self-medicating that is actually good for you!
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Over the past 25 years, Amen Clinics has helped thousands of people heal their brains and they can help you, too. With targeted treatment you can change your brain and change your life. If you feel that you or a loved one could benefit from an evaluation, contact the Amen Clinics Care Center today at www.amenclinics.com/schedule-....

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@raymorathomas2366 7 жыл бұрын

This was very helpful. I have PTSD from childhood and young adulthood sexual abuse. Also I have several other forms of emotional and sexual abuse. I only have physical abuse from my marriage when I was 21. So knowing that my brain is different because I really do not have much physical abuse. Thank you Tammie

@92foxcarguy21 Жыл бұрын

Excellent video so true

@alfreddumont6686 5 жыл бұрын

i found this very interesting in understanding what my grandson is going through with TBI..i will share this with my my son Eric and wife Kathy...thank you

@marinaschaefer8229 4 жыл бұрын

I love you guys. I feel like I'm free. I appreciate your work.

@TanjaWindegger 8 жыл бұрын

Love your honesty Tana :) I used to minimise my traumas when I was younger too "no, nothing every happened to me and god no I don't need therapy"... then I have been diagnosed with chronic complex PTSD and had over 10 years of therapy :) ....but now my life is filled with joy. Question: Is there anything that can help you improve your academic learning? I am at uni and struggle with retaining and reiterating information. Listening to your videos makes me wonder if this has nothing to do with my PTSD but may be due to TBI. Daniel, guess you are not surprised to hear that I never had a brain scan. I am going to Brendon Burchards HPA next year, maybe I should stop by at your clinic while I am in the States :) Thanks for taking the time to make these videos and posting them freely available to everyone. Love the way you add humor to it all...Best wishes,tanja

@Shadow-runner939 4 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU! I AM GRATEFUL FOR YOU... Beautiful couple! 🙏🏽💞

@heathermarie7030 5 жыл бұрын

This was very helpful. Thank you so much. I am also looking for information on how to treat both tbi and cptsd together.

@andrewglover7693 7 жыл бұрын

I've had both. I've done pretty much every therapy known to man including EMDR and nothing has worked so far.

@casperinsight3524 9 жыл бұрын

Dr. Amen is calm & collected, I can see the attraction factor for Tana, and us gals who are trauma survivors. I too have always leaned towards the calm to quell the chaos, but seem to end up with more chaos....subconscious at work...undermining me? Luv the exercise 4 anxiety tip, what if exhaustion prevents you from ability to exercise??? Stress upon stress...increases instead of decreases

@bigbearbland 8 жыл бұрын

Hi, just an FYI, when you do exercise, even on a small scale like a brisk walk or riding a bicycle, the chemical release that is causes in the brain will make you MORE energized. I have been in the "women only" gym business for years and I promise you it works great. And start out with little, like a 20min walk/cardio equivalent and then a few upper body free weight exercises and you will feel like a million bucks in no time. and remember, water with at least a 7.5ph level that is purified, no SODA!😞

@skyinuri8868 2 жыл бұрын

I have both PTSD n TBI. Thank you for ur video, I will work hard so I can go to get my brain injury cured by a professional. When I was high school I got diagnosed BPD, coz my difficulty to socialize, adaptation, etc. after 3 consults, I cut my therapy n all until 2016, I back experienced a traumatic event. Almost 4 years lately, I just try to reduce my rollercoaster moods. Anyway thank you again.

@rebeccad.8120 8 жыл бұрын

Would love more info on how to support a close relative with ptsd and tbi. It's so difficult. What should we do, what shouldn't we do?

@exposingunconditionalselfl8731 4 жыл бұрын

Love it and it is a huge difference between a rock and the impact the years I have been able to get to the place where I can find the path initially thought it was going to add to my life as complete naturally by giving me the way you have accurate and useful tools for a process of the thirty years to have supported by the use of exactly how much I have been able to make just about what I never trusted to be able to make it past crutches for the time being but it was a foundation for the understanding that behaviors experiences with a whole lot across the road from dysfunctional judgement on evolution of myself within areas knowing good stuff that helped me knowing what to do and now I have a bigger case of what isn't a account for evolution of judges for qualifications for the time being but I know that it's a past thru alone until the next thing comes to mind to well-being of the 7.7 billion possibilities in kind & time. Ty

@aneliadraganova3504 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for all the information on brain injury and the new vantage point of understanding emotional and psychological trauma and their possible biological origin predisposition Dr Amen! I'm watching your videos from a professional interest. I'm a hypnotherapist certified in trauma recovery and additional in PTSD hypnosis. If I may I have a question to you. I have a female client that seek my assistance in regards to severe insomnia. However she is also exhibiting symptoms of emotional disregulation. It is never been diagnosed with mental illnesses however she suffers from high level of anxiety, feels occasionally unwarranted for the occasion higher level of anger and aggressionepisodes. She is in her early 20's. In the life history came up that during her birth there was a brain trauma ( she was extracted from the mother's womb with forceps, the metal spoon like gynocologists use to use when they didn't want to do C-section) resulting after the birth of 3 surface kefalheamatomas, oxygen deprivation due to umbilical cord wrapped around her neck. Also in her testimonial she experienced serious emotional and mental trauma for number of years due to toxic relationship. Regardless of my persistent suggestion of seeking brain imaging tests and working with psychologist my client is not inclined yet to investigate the reasons for her unbalanced emotional state. I watched your videos on temporal and pre-frontal lobe injuries, genetic predisposition and mental and emotional traumas. My question to is: What's more likely to be the frontal and pre-frontal lobe activity of my client - higher than the norm or lower? And what be the herbal supplements suggestions based on that.

@saved03 8 жыл бұрын

In my mind if I get comfortable. I will die or get shot. I do not trust any neighborhood I go into. I don't care how good the neighborhood is. You let your guard down. You are dead is what goes through my mind. I am always scanning my environment to look for threats. I'm not a combat vet. I got ptsd while working in the bad area of town as a security officer. Nightly I heard shots ring out. Witnessed murders.

@PeachesandMoss Жыл бұрын

I feel similar to you. My cPTSD comes from lots of abuse.

@bigbearbland 8 жыл бұрын

I have had every single thing that would probably be on your emotional questionnaire as well as all of the ones you would have on your physical questionnaire, with the exception of sexual trauma, I was never a victim or victimizer of and of that. Since my divorce, loss of my company, kids, house ect 5 years ago, I have been living in what was our kids nanny's mini-van. I know that I have had PTSD and TBI for years but it is beginning to become some type of Alzheimer's disease, and now I'm scared. I just turned 54 I have a 126/128 IQ and it's leaving me. I have no money. is there a study program that maybe I could participate in somewhere nearby? I will thank you in advance for any help you can give me.

@jenniferannfox2316 6 жыл бұрын

if anything i would be insulted that a man that "loved " me would rather see my MRI first. If anything she should check his brain out as well then. What would that have to do with a decision on persuing a relationship? Odd