Our goal is to provide you with personalized, thorough, effective treatment in an environment that is professional, welcoming and private.”
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Treatment
If you or someone you love is suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, get help by calling (817) 457-4646.
“Our goal is to provide you with personalized, thorough, effective treatment in an environment that is professional, welcoming and private.” ~ Dr. Alloju D.O.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) occurs when a person has been exposed to a traumatic event wherein they experienced an event that involved actual or threatened death or serious injury to self or others, and the person’s response involved intense fear, helplessness, or horror.
PTSD symptoms fall into three general clusters:
Re-experiencing, which can manifest as flashbacks or nightmares.
Avoidance and numbing, which involves persistent avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma (efforts to avoid thoughts, feelings or conversations associated with the trauma; efforts to avoid activities, places, or people that arouse recollections of the trauma; inability to recall an important aspect of the trauma), and numbing of general responsiveness (feelings of detachment or estrangement from others).
Increased arousal, as indicated by insomnia, outbursts of anger or irritability, difficulty concentrating, hypervigilance, or easily startled.
Successful treatment of PTSD can be accomplished with appropriate medication and psychotherapy.
Helpful Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Resources:
- National Center for PTSD
www.ncptsd.org - PTSD Alliance
www.PTSDAlliance.org
Dr. Lisa Alloju is a 1993 Graduate of Texas Christian University with a Bachelor of Arts in Biology. In 1997 Dr. Alloju completed medical school at The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth.
She completed Psychiatry Residency training at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth in 2002. While in residency, she was Assistant Chief Psychiatry Resident in 1999, and in 2002 was awarded Pfizer “Resident of the Year.” Her experience since completing residency includes work in the John Peter Smith Psychiatric Emergency Center, inpatient psychiatric hospitals, inpatient addiction and eating disorder centers, partial hospitalization treatment centers, and outpatient psychiatric and addiction medicine clinics.
Dr. Alloju has given several formal presentations to health care professionals on topics such as, “Women’s Issues in Psychiatry,” “Depression Screening in Primary Care,” “Choosing an Antidepressant,” “Treatment Options for Depression,” and “Antidepressants in the Primary Care Setting”.
