Cats. Heartworm disease in cats is very different from heartworm disease in dogs. The cat is an atypical host for heartworms, and most worms in cats do not survive to the adult stage. Cats with adult heartworms typically have just one to three worms, and many cats affected by heartworms have no adult worms. Diagnosis. 2  While infected dogs may have 30 or more worms in their heart and lungs, cats usually have 6 or fewerâand may have just one or two. 3  But while the severity of heartworm disease in dogs is related to the number of worm, in cats, just one or two worms can make a cat very ill.
Talk therapy is an alternate name for the various forms of psychotherapy that emphasize the importance of the client or patient speaking to the therapist as the main means of expressing and resolving issues.
Psychotherapy. Several types of psychotherapy, also called talk therapy, may be used to treat children and adults with PTSD. Some types of psychotherapy used in PTSD treatment include: 1  Cognitive therapy. 2  This type of talk therapy helps you recognize the ways of thinking (cognitive patterns) that are keeping you stuck â for example, negative or inaccurate ways of perceiving normal situations.