Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: a psychological reaction that occurs after experiencing a highly stressing event (as wartime combat, physical violence, or a natural disaster) outside the range of normal human experience and that is usually characterized by depression, anxiety, flashbacks, recurrent nightmares, and avoidance of reminders of the event—abbreviation PTSD; called also delayed-stress disorder, delayed-stress syndrome, post-traumatic stress syndrome; compare combat fatigue.
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can develop following a traumatic event that threatens your safety or makes you feel helpless.
Most people associate PTSD with battle-scarred soldiers—and military combat is the most common cause in men—but any overwhelming life experience can trigger PTSD, especially if the event feels unpredictable and uncontrollable.
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can affect those who personally experience the catastrophe, those who witness it, and those who pick up the pieces afterwards, including emergency workers and law enforcement officers. It can even occur in the friends or family members of those who went through the actual trauma.
PTSD develops differently from person to person. While the symptoms of PTSD most commonly develop in the hours or days following the traumatic event, it can sometimes take weeks, months, or even years before they appear.
SYMPTOMS
In Posttraumatic stress disorder, people experience the frequency, cause unwanted memories of the traumatic event again. Nightmares are common. Sometimes life events as if it happened again (flashbacks). Great disruption often occurs when people are dealing with events or circumstances that remind them of the traumatic origin. Suppose some memory is a celebration of the traumatic event, seeing a gun after being hit with a weapon when the robbery, and was in a small boat sank after the accident.
People constantly avoiding things that remind of the trauma. They could also try to avoid thoughts, feelings, or conversations about the traumatic event and to avoid activities, circumstances, or people who can remind. Avoidance may also include memory loss (amnesia) for certain aspects of the traumatic event.
People experience numbness or death in emotional reactions and symptoms that appear to increase (such as difficulty falling asleep, being alert to signs of danger are at risk, or being easily startled). Symptoms of depression are common, and people show little interest in previously enjoyable activity. Feelings of guilt are also common. For example, their might feel guilty that when they survived when others did not.
TREATMENT
Treatment requires psychotherapy (including contact therapy) and drug therapy. Because anxiety often associated with severe shaking, soul memories, psychotherapy support plays a very important task in treatment.
Therapist is to openly recognize the empathy and sympathy for the psychological pain. Therapists to reassure people that their responses suggested that they face a real but their memories (as a form of therapeutic contact).
They are also taught how to control anxiety, which helps modulate and integrate into the tortured memories of their personalities.
Insight-oriented psychotherapy can help people who feel guilty to understand why they are punishing themselves and help eliminate feelings of guilt.
Antidepressants seem to have several advantages. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), tricyclic antidepressants, and monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) really helped.
Chronic Posttraumatic stress disorder may not disappear but are often greatly reduced over time even without treatment. Nevertheless, some people become permanent disability with such disorders
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