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Will the medication control me?

Dr. Emily Keram, Psychiatrist, answers common questions about PTSD.

Transcript

Folks who have PTSD have brain chemistry that's actually

different from the way your brain was working

before you were exposed to the trauma.

The differences are in certain brain chemicals

that we call neurotransmitters, the levels of those poop out

in certain areas in your brain, and the only thing that

medications do is help you make more of those

brain chemicals, those neurotransmitters,

so that you don't have the symptoms of PTSD

to the extent that you did before, OK?

That is it, all right?

So rather than taking alcohol

and changing your brain chemistry that way,

I think it's better to try to take

something that is going to normalize your brain chemistry.

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