Vantage Point Behavioral Health & Trauma Healing

Due to the high stress volume across the board, the number of students seeking on-campus counseling shot up by 30 percent. The influx of appointment requests and insufficient counseling staff have created quite the lag time. It used to be that students were waiting two weeks the most to meet with someone. Now, it can be up to seven weeks, which is estimated to be about half of a semester.

Knowing more about the stages of recovery and where you are on the path can help put things into perspective.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

Studies have shown that mindfulness skills can reduce a person’s chances of having another depressive episode.

#EMDR, which stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a form of therapy used to treat people who’ve experienced traumatic events. The aim is to get the patient to process the traumatic event so they can start moving forward from it.

Finding a partner who understands your past and is willing to help you work through your issues can be one of most positive ways to overcome intimacy fears.

Looking into environmental factors can help people gain a better understanding of how and why addiction develops.

Studies have shown that in response to a perceived threat, people who experienced trauma or have #PTSD have a hyper reactive amygdala and a less activated prefrontal cortex. That means that their brain and nervous system tends to react more intensely to potential threats and their prefrontal cortex does not always work to calm the response.

The impact of trauma during adolescence can heal over time, but some are left with life long issues that are complicated to resolve even in adulthood.

Blacking out essentially means that the person has consumed so much alcohol that their brain can’t release neurotransmitters that are responsible for creating and organizing memories.

It can be challenging to keep our thoughts focused but learning to redirect them when they start to wander can prove to be an important skill.

Borderline personality disorder can cause a pronounced fear of abandonment and the sufferer will often believe that they have already or will be abandoned by their partner.

In many cases, combining self-care with more specific strategies taught by a therapist may be more helpful in combating anxiety.