06/05/2022
🥼More than half a million Americans have died from COVID-19. Thousands more suffered from financial losses compounded by businesses, schools, and daycares shutting down. The fallout of COVID-19 is real—and for a subset of Americans, it's a textbook trigger for post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD.
Dr. Itai Danovitch, a psychiatrist at Cedars-Sinai, says over 90% of people experience a major traumatic event at some point during their lifetime. Even with similar experiences, some people walk away largely unscathed, while others may carry emotional scars that color their everyday lives for decades.
One of the recent known triggers of developing PTSD is COVID-19. Up to one-third of people who experience the sensation of not being able to breathe, as in severe cases of COVID-19, develop clinical PTSD after those experiences.
"Studies show that the experience of being hospitalized—being confused and frightened and feeling like you're drowning—is traumatizing," Dr. Danovitch says.
☝️Among other well-known PTSD treatments, such as therapy, multiple recent studies have shown that CBD can help with PTSD symptoms, such as having nightmares and replaying negative memories.
🤔 Can you yourself say that you’ve experienced post-covid PTSD? What did you do to help yourself? Have you tried CBD to fight your PTSD symptoms? Has it worked?
