Amazing New Treatment Option For PTSD- [SGB injection]

Have you guys heard of this SGB injection for post traumatic stress disorder? Well, I hadn't either, but one of the viewers, one of you guys, made a comment on one of my videos asking me if I knew about this or if I'd made a video about it. And of course it sparked my curiosity. I've never heard of an injection for ptsd, so I've done a little research and I want to tell you all about it because it's pretty cool and exciting new treatment out there. Now, for those of you who are new here, welcome to Put the shovel down. This YouTube channel is all about helping you understand the science and psychology of addiction so that you're always five steps ahead of it and ultimately so that you can get back to living the life that you want to live. Now, this is the only channel out there that helps you understand addiction from every single angle. From the individual angle, the family perspective, the biological perspective, the psychological perspective. I mean, we look at this thing from every which direction. And today we're going to take a look specifically at ptsd, which as most of you know, stands for Post Traumatic Stress disorder because there is such a high, high, high correlation between trauma and addiction. Now, in a general way, we all know what the word trauma means, but there is definitely a clinical definition for Post Traumatic stress disorder. And these days there's a lot of talk about something called com complex trauma. So I thought the best place to begin would be maybe to explain the issue to you. And then we'll get into this SGB injection and how it works and how it impacts and how it can be a super helpful resource for someone recovering from trauma and or trauma and addiction. So in a general sense, trauma basically means you've been through something really hard in your life, something that was so big that it kind of changed you. Now, we've all had traumatic moments in our life or life changing moments, but sometimes those life changing moments can be really big and bad and scary to such a degree that it actually really, truly does, like, change your biology, which is exactly what happens in the case of Post Traumatic stress disorder. So let's take a look at what the official criteria for diagnosing PTSD really are when it comes to making a diagnosis of Post Traumatic Stress disorder. There are actually groups of symptoms. So there are criteria. There's actually A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H. That's how many groups of criteria there are. And I'm going to explain each one of those groups to you and how the diagnosis is actually made. Now, criteria A has to do with the stressor. This is the actual thing that is causing the trauma, the event or the circumstance or situation. One of these stressors is required in order to get a diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder. That stressor can be a direct exposure to something that's either life threatening or so severe that you thought it could result in the loss of your life or the loss of the life of someone else. So that could be something that happens directly to you. It also counts if you are witnessing something like that happen to someone else. Even if you are the person that causes that terrible thing. Like for example, if someone is caught up in an addiction problem and they maybe they're selling drugs to support their addiction and maybe maybe something really bad goes down and they end up shooting someone else, the person that does the shooting can have trauma from that along with the person on the other end of that along with anyone else that witnessed that. Or the stressor can come from just the fact of learning and hearing about and discovering that some really, really traumatic thing happened to someone really close to you. A friend or a loved one, for example. I feel like this happens to a lot of parents who have children struggling with an addiction. You get the trauma from just from knowing the things that they're doing every day, the things that are happening to them. You start replaying those things in your head over and over and over. And eventually that can reset your anxiety or your stress management system. The official word for that is your sympathetic nervous system by the way. And the other indirect way to experience trauma they call this sort of like secondary trauma is when you're exposed to the really adverse serious details of a traumatic event. And this commonly happens to like first responders or healthcare professionals or counselors. When hear about traumatic things in such detail, it becomes so vivid in your own mind that you can experience that trauma sort of vicariously. And they call that secondary trauma. Alright. Now all that has to do with the event that happened. The key ingredient there is terror. If you've experienced something that causes terror like a murder or a rape, or a natural disaster or a bank robbery or an assault. Now let's move on to criteria B. Criteria B is all about unwanted memories. And you have to have at least one of these. Is required to get a diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder. It can be intrusive, upsetting, unwanted memories. It can be flashbacks, it can be nightmares. And this also includes emotional distress after being exposed to a trigger or something that reminds you of the bad memory. And it includes physical reaction. Not only does the emotional response count, but the physical response counts after being exposed to some sort of external trigger or something that reminds you of the bad experience. So emotional and physical triggers would be, you know, your thoughts start racing, you start getting panicky, and that makes your heart race and your breathing change. That's what I mean when I say emotional and physical response to external triggers. Now criteria C is all about avoidance. And you have to have at least one of these symptoms in order to get the diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder as well. And by avoidance, what I mean is that the person avoids trauma related stimuli or triggers. Maybe they don't go to certain places or listen to certain people or engage in certain activities or events because it brings up too much bad stuff. The person may also avoid trauma related feelings. So if there were certain feelings that they experienced during the trauma, they can avoid anything that may make them feel that same way. And of course it means that they avoid trauma related triggers. I mean, all that kind of makes sense, right? You avoid the thing that brings on the bad feelings, the physical response, the emotional flooding and all that stuff. Criteria D is all about how the trauma negatively affects your thinking and your mood. And two of these are required in order to get a diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder. The first one is negative thoughts or feelings begin or are worsened after the trauma. Another one is inability to recall really important parts of the traumatic or the traumatic memory. A lot of times people feel like, why can't I remember that? And sometimes it's because you get in such an extreme stress response during trauma that you're almost sort of blacked out or your memory blocks it out as a way of protecting you. You may develop overly negative thoughts about yourself and about the world in general. You may become very pessimistic or always think that others have bad intentions or that bad things are going to happen. You may have an exaggerated sense of blame of yourself for things that happened or for people for what happened in general. You may have a negative affect. You have decreased interest in activities or hobbies or things that you used to experience joy from. Now this makes a lot of sense, right? Because if you're constantly like, your alarm bells are going off inside your head, your heart's racing, you feel like you're under threat all the time, it's kind of hard to relax and enjoy yourself, right? Makes sense. It's like all that fear, worry and anxiety is rule in the show and doesn't leave room for anything positive to come in. Criteria E is all about how your react and your arousal systems get Changed. After experiencing severe trauma, you may have increased irritability and aggression. You may see an increase of risky or destructive behavior. You may see an increase in hypervigilance. That means being constantly aware and watching everything all the time, trying to make sure you're safe or looking for danger. You have a heightened startle reaction, difficulty concentrating and difficulty sleeping. All of these symptoms mean that you're staying on high alert all the time. It's like your alarm system has been busted. In fact, it been hit with a sledgehammer and now it's just in a constant alarm state. Criterion F has to do with how long these symptoms have been going on. And this is required. There's only one of these, and it has to be there in order for a diagnosis of PTSD to occur. And that duration is more than one month. Sometimes after a really bad, scary event, you may have symptoms like this that last for a few weeks, but then ultimately go away. When that happens, we call it acute stress disorder. But if those symptoms persist, that's when it turns into full on Post Traumatic Stress disorder. Criteria G, which is also another required symptom in order to meet the diagnostic criteria of ptsd, is these symptoms create a lot of distress in the person and or functional impairment in their life, like their hobbies, interest, activities, work, relationships, that sort of thing. Meaning all these symptoms are causing big problems for the person. And Criterion H has to do with what they call exclusion, meaning these symptoms, all the things we just talked about, are not coming from a drug, a medication or some other kind of illness. For example, like when someone is using methamphetamines, they can get really paranoid and anxious and out there and it may look like they're having symptoms of ptsd, but those symptoms are really being triggered by the substance or illness itself. So if the symptoms are coming from something like that, then it's not ptsd, it's something else. So now that you've heard all that, I know it may feel a little bit complicated, but it's really not. Basically, it's a really bad, terrifying, horrible thing that either happened to you or someone. You know, you watched it happened or you heard about it in such great detail that it messes up your natural biological alarm system and it doesn't seem to want to fix back. It's like it changed you. Okay, so now let's talk about what this SGB injection really is. Now, SGB stands for Stella Ganglion block. I hope I'm saying that right. Basically, they're bundle of nerves that's kind of located in the neck region which are associated with the sympathetic nervous system. And these nerves can become really over activated in response to trauma. So when I say trauma is like taking a sledgehammer to your alarm system, really, that's kind of what happens. It sets this part of your brain on overdrive and it's constantly over producing these sympathetic nervous system type traits like hypervigilance, memories and irritability and looking for negative things and can't experience joy. Well, the SGB injection is actually an injection that is put right into these nerves. Now this injection is done with the help of X rays and or ultrasounds to make sure it gets in the exact right place. And basically it's kind of a block on these nerves. So it prevents it from getting into that hyper overdrive over activated kind of state, which prevents it from triggering all these symptoms to be happening. That seems pretty smart, right? It kind of makes logical sense, right? It goes in and it blocks the alarm system signal from being so easily alerted. It's kind of like a reboot of the sympathetic nervous system. Now this has to be performed by doctors, of course, and I'm not 100% sure exactly where you can get this, but I did find that there is one place, I believe it's in Miami called the PTSD group. Kind of easy to remember, right? Well, there's a group of physicians there that are helping people with trauma using the SGB injection. And from what I can tell and reviews I've listened to, this is a game changer. This can help someone get back to living the life that they want to live. Because so often when people have these trauma related symptoms, they fall into drug and alcohol use as a way to medicate the problem, which as you know, if you watch this channel, only ever makes things ten times worse. Now in other videos I've talked to you about how even if addiction is triggered by some other kind of mental health problem, once it is an addiction, the addiction itself has to be treated. Let's say for example, you feel like you developed an addiction because you have trauma, like all these things we just talked about, you could probably go and get this SGB injection which may help a super time with the trauma symptoms. But if you've already developed an addiction, it doesn't necessarily mean that that addiction will go away. However, if you are getting treatment for addiction and you got a treatment like this for the trauma, now that to me sounds like a good combo that could really set someone in the right direction. So what do you guys think about this? And if you are someone who's had this done, or someone from the PTSD group, we would love to interview you on this channel and hear more about your own personal experience with it. From what I can tell from my research, this seems like a pretty effective, good way to treat trauma. Now, speaking of really cool, interesting new ways to treat things, up next, I want you to watch this video video about some cool, new, interesting ways to treat addiction, specifically the detox or getting people off of drugs, part of the recovery process. And I'm going to put that video up for you next. All you have to do is click it.