Patient was today instructed regarding grounding technique for anxiety management as follows:
- Grounding is an anxiety management technique, especially useful with patients experiencing flashbacks.
- Flashback is a current day re-experience of a traumatic event that happened in the past, as a recurrent and intrusive thought, with an intensity, as if it were a real time happening.
- Experiencing flashback is a presentation of post-traumatic stress disorder, which typically occur during the patient’s waking state.
- Grounding helps you to realize your surroundings and gain control of the current situation.
- Practicing grounding techniques can help prevent losing contact with the current moment.
- Through gaining control of the surroundings and the situation, grounding techniques not only help the human brain with getting out of the distress, but also tell the brain that the current day situation is not as bad as it thinks.
