Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Abstract

This paper aims to provide significant information about the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. An individual experienced this order when he as experienced a severe tragedy or trauma in his life. The trauma has various side effects on the memory and mine of the individual. This paper explains that how this disorder can be reduced in individuals.

Abstract2

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder4

Definition4

History of PTSD4

Current Research on PTSD5

Theories of PTSD7

Controversies on PTSD8

Conclusion9

References10

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Definition

It is defined as a mental disorder in which an individual suffers from emotional and mental stress. People feel this order when they have experienced an event in their life related to serious harm or even death. The symptoms of this disorder includes anxiety, flashbacks, intense worries, disturbance of sleep and the individual usually avoids to recall those situations or thoughts which are related to the trauma. The individual also hesitate in communicating with the outside world.

Literature Review

History of PTSD

The history of Posttraumatic Stress disorder is associated with the psychiatry and it is human psychology that he feels fear from unpleasant thoughts and events that lasts bad impression on their memory. The history of posttraumatic disorders starts even when the man lived in the Stone Age; individuals also had nightmares or fearful dreams after hunting.

As the time passes away, researchers have discovered more facts about the posttraumatic growth disorders. It has been obvious that the more we discovered the trauma, the more will be the complexity comes in the theory. People are doing more research in the health care and they are getting greater understanding of the human psychology and complex nature of the brain (Weiten, 2007). The history of Posttraumatic stress disorder also gives people awareness about the disorder and how to treat this disorder.

Every individual is at the risk of facing trauma since his child hood. Posttraumatic Stress disorders are first used in diagnosis by the American Psychiatric Association. The most important thing in Posttraumatic Stress Disorders is to understand the clinical expression and scientific basis of the “Trauma”.

PTSD is regarded as a unique psychiatric diagnosis because of the traumatic stressor in the trauma. It is unable to make PTSD diagnosis till the time patient is not exposed to any traumatic stressor in his life and this event has become a trauma for the individual (Joseph, 2012). Every individual has the different tendency to cope up with the trauma. However, some individuals do not have the capacity to bear the severe affects and hence are vulnerable to full effects of the syndrome. It has been observed through the history that trauma is not such kind of thing which you can easily identify in your real life. We cannot materially see the effects of trauma as they are intangible but we can feel it through our cognitive and emotional sense. Individuals have the different ability of bearing the trauma and because of that reason some people get protected after the trauma and some face severity of the trauma and some people developed clinical symptoms due ...