PTSD
Post-Tramatic Stress Disorder is a disorder that occurs after a person has experienced a traumatic event, such as a natural disaster, participating in combat, or being the victim of a physical assault or rape.
Stressors that might trigger PTSD must be outside the range of typical human experience.
Typical problems such as grieving the loss of a loved one or marital conflict are not considered severe enough to lead to PTSD.
People who have PTSD are people who:

Have experienced, witnessed, or were confronted with a traumatic event which involved the threat of death or serious injury of themselves or others and the person responded with intense fear, helplessness, or horror.

Persistently re-experience the event through intrusive thoughts, dreams, acting or feeling as if the event were reoccurring, and/or intense distress and psychological reactivity when exposed to cues that symbolize or resemble the event.

Avoid stimuli associated with the event and numbing of general responsiveness by:

1. Avoiding thoughts, feelings, conversation, activities, places, or people associated with the trauma.
2. An inability to recall important aspects of trauma.
3. A loss interest in participating in activities.
4. Afeeling of detachment from others.
5. A restricted range of emotions, often unable to have loving relationships.
6. Little hope for their future.

• Symptoms of increased arousal such as difficulty sleeping, irritability or angry outbursts, difficulty concentrating, and exaggerated startle response.
• These disturbances continue at least a month and cause significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.

Traumatic events are more likely to lead to PTSD if they are the result of human malice as opposed to an accident or a natural disaster.
Prevalence of this disorder is somewhere between 1 and 5% of the American population. Most men who have the disorder have experienced combat and most women have been the victim of a physical assault or rape.








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