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Want more? Check out these compelling excerpts from the June 18th, 2007 issue of NewsWeek magazine*: 'Stress debriefing'.

Trying to quit these drugs when you've had enough of them is a nightmare experience for many people.

Breaking free from these drugs comes at a knee-crawl pace.

Just ask anybody who's tried.

* SOURCE: NewsWeek Magazine, June 18th, 2007, Pg.

In a three- to four-hour group session, a therapist pushes patients to discuss and 'process' their feelings and to describe in detail what they experienced or witnessed.

To quit these drugs, you must do it under the complete supervision of an attending physician, and then only over a period of weeks or months.

Burn victims who underwent stress debriefing, for instance, had worse PTSD 13 months later than victims who had no psychotherapy; people who went through it after being in a car crash had greater anxiety about travel three years later than those who did not.

is designed to prevent symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder in those who have suffered or witnessed a trauma.

Many of those who undergo stress debriefing develop worse PTSD symptoms than those who deal with the trauma on their own, controlled studies show, probably because the intense reliving of the trauma impedes natural recovery.

If these meds are stopped too quickly, the physical withdrawal symptoms can, in fact, mimic the very same emotional problems the person had to begin with (anxiety, physical symptoms, etc.) before starting the meds in the first place.

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