PTSD is commonly treated using a combination of psychotherapy (cognitive - behavioral therapy, group therapy, and exposure therapy are popular) and
psychotropic drug therapy (antidepressant or atypical antipsychotics, e.g. brand names such as Prozac (fluoxetine), Effexor (venlafaxin), Zoloft (sertraline), Remeron (mirtazapine), Zyprexa (olanzapine), or Seroquel (quetiapine)-RRB-.
This
therapy - unfriendly worldview, amounting almost to a form of popular brainwashing, is sustained by the usual suspects: DSM, which provides a faux legitimacy to artificially constructed psychomedical disorders; Big Pharma's financial, social, and political clout, which vastly outclasses Little Psychotherapy on every measure; direct - to - consumer ads for
psychotropic drugs, which turn every TV watcher or magazine reader into his or her own personal psychiatrist; and decreasing insurance reimbursement for
therapy, as well as increasing reimbursements for prescriptions, which means that if people want
therapy, they'll probably have to pony up for it themselves.