POST TRAUMATIC DISORDER

Post Traumatic Disorder

Post Traumatic Disorder

Introduction

Post Traumatic Disorder, or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety type of disorder that can occurs after a person witnesses or experiences an extremely unpleasant of the traumatic event, which had involved a threat of injury or death. It is an extremely unstable state of mind, which not only disturbs the person undergoing this disorder, but also adversely affects the people around him. PTSD is classified primarily as an anxiety disorder, but can also lead to depression, emotional numbness and memory disturbances in which the patient feels as if reliving the trauma. PTSD may occur immediately after a major trauma, or take more than 6 months after the event (Gersons & Carlier, 1992). Stress is naturally existing forces from the outside or the inside of a person that affect the person dramatically. The individual responds to stress in ways that affect the individual as well as their environment. Some individuals are mentally strong and can cope up with the stressors, while others fall prey of the tensions and sink into Post Traumatic Stress Disorders. Due to the excessive building up of stress in modern lives, people often believe that stress is an extremely negative experience, but the biological perspective views stress as being purely neutral, negative, or positive type of experiences.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

PTSD is a sort of state of stress, which is characterized by extremely intense emotional state of mind, which is dominated by guilt, anxiety, anger, hostility, rage, sometimes shame, and very often the sadness and even depression (Bryant, Harvey & Dang, 1998). This state produces a strong emotional distress and mental imbalance, behavioral problems and high physiological arousal at the time to readjust to the different facets of everyday life.

Causes of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

PTSD has the probability of occurring at all ages and may also result in due to the follow of a natural disaster like a flood or fire, or a war, imprisonment, assault, domestic abuse or rape. These types of events can produce stress in anyone, but not everyone develops PTSD (Gersons & Carlier, 1992). The cause of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is unknown, but psychological, genetic, physical, social and involved. PTSD alters the ability of the body to respond to stress. It affects the various hormones and chemicals that are related to stress and that are used as agents of transmitting information between nerves (neurotransmitters). The fact of having been exposed to trauma in the past may increase the risk of this disorder. Having good social support helps protect against PTSD (Radnitz, & Willard, 1998). People with PTSD experience of a situation repeatedly in many ways. In many cases, people have been reported to have seen nightmares and memories of the event, which generates the very same feelings that were, experienced originally (flashbacks), or become upset during anniversaries of the event (Bryant, Harvey & Dang, 1998).

Most of the people returning from an extremely stressful or traumatic event will experience ...