Crime and PTSD

Introduction

PTSD is a situation faced by a person who has gone through any trauma or unwanted situation. These kinds of situations always make impact on the subconscious mind of a person. In extreme cases the behavior and the thinking process gets changed thoroughly due to those experiences. In simple words the person gets involved in unethical and social abused things. Bust this thing depends on the type of bad experience.

Typical symptoms include episodes of re-experiencing trauma in the form of intrusive memories (reminiscences), dreams or nightmares, occurring against the backdrop of a chronic feeling of "stiffness" and emotional dullness, alienation from other people's lack of response to surroundings, anhedonia, and avoidance of activities and situations reminiscent of of the trauma. Typically, an individual is afraid and avoid what he recalls the original injury. Occasionally there are dramatic, sharp flash of fear, panic or aggression, triggered by stimuli that evoke unexpected memories of the trauma or the initial reaction to it. Usually there is a high state of autonomic excitability with increased vigilance, increased startle reaction and insomnia (Kaplan, 609).

With the above symptoms and signs are usually combined anxiety and depression, suicidal ideation is often a complicating factor may be excessive use of alcohol or drugs.

The beginning of this disorder occurs after trauma after a latent period which can vary from weeks to months (but rarely more than 6 months). During an undulating, but in most cases, you can expect to recover. In a small proportion of cases the state may show a chronic course over many years and the transition to stable personality change after experiencing the tragedy (F62.0).

PTSD

The history of research in of RAS post-traumatic stress, the main results cross cultural study of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), performed in the framework of Russian-American project in the laboratory of psychology and psychotherapy of post traumatic stress since 1996 presented theoretical and empirical work aimed at studying multivariable post-traumatic stress in the laboratory of theoretical analysis of the concepts of crisis and trauma, the definition and characteristics of PTSD in participants of military operations, liquidators and at-risk groups, the study of the phenomenon of shortened life perspective when exposed to different types, examination of the relationship of attachment and symptoms of PTSD, issues genesis of PTSD and the search for the predictors and the study of dissociation.

Types of Traumatic Events

Traumatic events are, in most cases, unexpected, uncontrollable and strike in an intense sense of security and self-confidence of the individual causing intense vulnerability and fear reactions to the environment.

Examples of such situations are:

Accidents

Natural disasters-hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, landslides, volcanic eruptions

Unexpected deaths of relatives

Assaults / crimes / violations

Physical / sexual abuse children

Torture

Kidnapping

Combat Experiences

Other forms of severe stress (but not extreme) can seriously affect the individual but generally are not typical triggers posttraumatic stress disorder, such as job loss, divorce, academic failure etc.

Importantly, as recent research indicates that despite the heterogeneity of traumatic events, individuals directly or indirectly have experienced this kind of situations show a common psychopathology currently labeled under the rubric of STRESS DISORDER ...