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Can PTSD be treated with medication alone?

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Medication can meaningfully ease PTSD symptoms like sleep problems, hypervigilance, and mood changes, but it is often most effective alongside trauma-focused therapy rather than used entirely on its own.

Medication can make other healing work more possible by reducing the most disruptive symptoms first.

Care can be coordinated with a trauma therapist for a fuller treatment approach.

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