Ptsd

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What is PTSD? You may have posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), if you’ve been through a traumatic event and are having trouble dealing with it. Such events may include a car crash, rape, domestic violence, military combat, or violent crime. While it is normal to have some anxiety after such an event, it usually goes away in time. But with PTSD, the anxiety is more intense and keeps coming back. And the trauma is relived through nightmares, intrusive memories, and flashbacks. These can be vivid memories that seem real. The symptoms of PTSD can cause problems with relationships and make it hard to cope with daily life. But it can be treated. With help, you can feel better. What causes PTSD? PTSD may be triggered by something that: • Happened to you • Happened to someone close to you • You witnessed Examples include: • Serious accidents, such as car or train wrecks • Natural disasters, such as floods or earthquakes • Manmade tragedies, such as bombings, a plane crash, shooting • Violent personal attacks, such as a mugging, rape, torture, being held captive, or kidnapping • Military combat • Abuse in childhood What are the risk factors for PTSD? There are many risk factors for developing PTSD. Recognizing and addressing them can help prevent PTSD, when possible. These risk factors include: • Lack of family or social support resources • Repeated exposure to traumatic circumstances • Personal history of trauma or of an acute stress or anxiety disorder • Family history of menta...

• • Symptoms • • PTSD is diagnosed after a person experiences symptoms for at least one month following a traumatic event. However symptoms may not appear until several months or even years later. The disorder is characterized by three main types of symptoms: • Re-experiencing the trauma through intrusive distressing recollections of the event, flashbacks, and nightmares. • Emotional numbness and avoidance of places, people, and activities that are reminders of the trauma. • Increased arousal such as Diagnosis criteria that apply to adults, adolescents, and children older than six include those below. Exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violation: • directly experiencing the traumatic events • witnessing, in person, the traumatic events • learning that the traumatic events occurred to a close family member or close friend; cases of actual or threatened death must have been violent or accidental • experiencing repeated or extreme exposure to aversive details of the traumatic events (Examples are first responders collecting human remains; police officers repeatedly exposed to details of child abuse). Note: This does not apply to exposure through electronic media, television, movies, or pictures, unless exposure is work-related. The presence of one or more of the following: • spontaneous or cued recurrent, involuntary, and intrusive distressing memories of the traumatic events (Note: In children repetitive play may occur in which themes or aspect...