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First line treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder

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in terms of medications are referred to as antidepressants.

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Antidepressants is not a great name for them

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because they cover a lot of things.

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They help with depression, anxiety, irritability,

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and then in PTSD they also help decrease nightmares,

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they help improve sleep, they help with panic attacks.

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So they cover a lot of territory.

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The purpose of the medicines is

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to basically turn the volume down

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so you have more space available

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to do the things you want to do.

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It doesn't mean that the volume will be turned off,

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but it will be turned down so that it will be

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less bothersome for you.

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That's really the purpose of the medicines,

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is to make the symptoms less bothersome for you so you can

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get on with the things in your life more successfully.