Post Traumatic Stress Disorder The Signs and Symptoms

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Post tramatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an emotional illness that develops as a result of a terribly frightening, life-threatening, or otherwise highly unsafe experience. PTSD sufferers re-experience the traumatic event or events in some way, tend to avoid places, people, or other things that remind them of the event (avoidance), and are exquisitely sensitive to normal life experiences (hyperarousal). Although this condition has likely existed since human beings have endured trauma, PTSD has only been recognized as a formal diagnosis since 1980

Traumatic events that can lead to PTSD include:

• Medical emergencies
• Sexual or physical abuse
• Extreem trama
• Seeing violence
• Watching someone die
• Losing a loved one
• Near death expirience
• Natural disaster
• Car or plane crash
• Terrorist attack
• Rape
• Kidnapping
• Violent assault
• War
• Drowning
• Trapped with no way out
• Held hostage
• plus many more more

Symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

PTSD may develop in many different ways from person to person and how it effects each person varies extreemly there is no base line for how the individual will be effected but there are some things to look out for after the victim of a trama come home. I you or someone you know has lived through a traumatic incident, some of the symptoms may appear within hours or days of the event, or they may take weeks, months, or even years to develop and may be hard to spot that the trama is the cause of the the effects you are having to deal with today. Symptoms can arise suddenly, gradually, or come and go over time.

There are three main types of PTSD symptoms: re-experiencing the traumatic event, avoiding reminders of the trauma, and symptoms of hyperarousal or heightened anxiety lack of confidence not wanting be be around anyone . In the days or months following a traumatic event, you may find yourself alternating between re-experiencing the event to the smallest detail from the smells sounds tastes of the tramatic event you suffered through and in some people they go inward and start avoiding reminders of the events that accured , with symptoms of increased arousal as the common backdrop in either a postive way or negitive way total extreems from really happy one minute then completely anti social within minutes mood swings without reason are very common.

he most disruptive symptoms of PTSD involve the flashbacks, nightmares, and intrusive memories of the traumatic event.

If you have PTSD, you may re-experience the traumatic event or intrusion in several ways:

• Reliving the event over and over in your head trying to figure out what you could of done to change the outcome of what you witnessed
• blaming yourself and your actions
• Intrusive memories of the traumatic event
• Bad dreams about the traumatic event
• Flashbacks or a sense of reliving the event
• Feelings of intense distress when reminded of the trauma
• Physiological stress response to reminders of the event (pounding heart, rapid breathing, nausea, muscle tension, sweating)

One of the worst things is anything can trigger a relaps at any point in time doesnt matter where you are or who you are with the world just suddenly come down around you

Examples of PTSD Triggers

• A smell ,a taste ,a sound
• For an auto accident survivor: The smell of gasoline
• For a combat veteran: The sound of a helicopter or firecrackers
• For a rape victim: The sight of a person suddenly appearing around the corner
• For a carjacking victim: The song that was playing on the radio at the time of the assaultClick on this link for information on Cures

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If you or someone you know is living with post tramatic stress you need to learn how to come to terms with ptsd and know all the different ways it could be effectting you daily lives.

Post tramatic stress is a very subtle silent stalking disorder that attacks your body mind and spirit quite offen with out the sufferers knowledge that anything is even wrong it slowly eats away at the person in the smallest of ways slowly compounding within until it can completely distroy your life for you and everyone around you.

I have been starting to get through it now but I still am trying to put the pieces 10 years after the incident took place , at the time ptss wasent nearly as recognized as it is today and I was left with just this complete feeling of emptiness and like some one ripped my soul right from my body and The only thing I could think to do was drink ! well six days later they found me wondering the streets still trying to figure out what I could of done differently and questioning everything in my whole life ,

Well I will continue this story later i have to go but stay tuned I will be updating this weekly

Hey there everyone I suffered from PTSD for over 15 years and it almost distroyed everything in my life before I did anything about it dont do make the same mistake that I did ,It is ok to not be able to deal with it yourself and it is healthy to ask others for help when you need just as you would expect them to ask you when they need it I been where you are now and all I can say is I am glad that you found your way to my site and hope you have taken the first steps towards recovery buy requesting more information above and I will be adding more content in the next few weeks so bookmak this site and I look forward to hearing from you real soon

I am always here if you need anything and will try to help you find the right resouces to manage and heal you while you are your way to recovery

Today is the first day of your new life so lets get you back on track and back to the person you once were

Aj Martirano