Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Introduction

The anxiety based disorder is post traumatic stress disorder. It takes place after living or seeing through a risky and hazardous event. It is a serious and critical mental disorder which occurs after the occurrence of traumatic incident. Majority of people after going through a traumatic event suffer from some kind of distress, whereas some people get back to normal functioning without any intervention in a small time interval (DHCC, 2011). However, for some people the after affects of the traumatic event develop incapacitating and long term problems. In these conditions, these victims sought earlier assistance for themselves which provides better recovery rate to them. People who are the victims of post traumatic stress disorder feel frightened and stressed even when they are no more in risk or danger. The mental disorder of post traumatic stress disorder can take place at any age. It embraces survivors of sexual and physical assault and war veterans, disasters, accidents, abuse, and several other grave and serious events (DHCC, 2011). However, it is not necessary that every person who is the victim of post traumatic stress disorder would have gone through dangerous event. Many people go through post traumatic stress disorder after a family member or friend gets harmed or experiences danger. The paper intends to discuss the demographics, risk factors, treatment, diagnosis and many other multiple factors which relate to the serious issue and problem of post traumatic stress disorder (DHCC, 2011).

Interview with a professional on P.T.S.D

We conducted an interview with the psychology specialist named as Frank Ochberg. In an interview, he talked about the demographics and symptoms of post traumatic disorders. He said that every person goes through some kinds of shocks sometimes. The psychologist illustrated hysterical reaction to distress or trauma. He elaborated it further by saying that in the entire lifetime, almost one out of two people exposed to a traumatic and life-threatening event. It can be an attack, rape, loss of job, robbery, death or war (Marsella, 2010). The interviewee carried out further by saying that typically the victim of traumatic disorder recovers after a short interval of time and the shock gets faded in the memory as trauma becomes painful but not damaging. When the situation of trauma is critical, prolonged, life threatening and severe, the after effects last for a long period of time and the victim suffers the unbearable effects of post traumatic stress disorder. The interviewee further extended his speech by saying that there are some people who go through traumatic events, but they do not become a victim of post traumatic stress disorder (Marsella, 2010). He stated that according to population and epidemiologic studies signify that nearly 7 percent of Americans will have or have had post-traumatic stress disorder at some time in their life. Women are found to be more susceptible to post traumatic stress disorder as compared to men. The interviewee categorized the symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder into 3 categories. These three categories included re-experiencing ...