PTSD How It Affects the Person and People around Them

Executive Summary

The paper discusses about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). It relates to the factor how it affects the person and its surrounding. PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) is an illness, which is usually classified as an anxiety disorder and it is considered to develop terribly frightening, or highly unsafe experience. This paper studies the fact that how PTSD can affect human lives, what are the major factors of PTSD, reasons due to which PTSD exist among human beings, risks associated with PTSD, prevention that can reduce the likelihood of PTSD, thus, some important tests are conducted for the purpose of critically analyzing PTSD and issues related to it. It is impossible to overstate the importance of continued attention to the problems associated with stress, or post-traumatic stress syndrome. Diseases caused by stress, may provide evidence of behavioral problems, problems that are related to marriage and family, and sometimes with alcohol or drug abuse.

PTSD How It Affects the Person and People around Them

Introduction

The psychiatric disorder, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), may develop when individuals are witness to or directly experience various life-threatening events, including violent personal victimization, war combat, or natural disasters. The Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) consists of three clusters of interrelated symptoms: re-experiencing, avoidance/numbing, and hyper-arousal. These symptoms are developed after an individual experiences the traumatic event. Traumatic events involve actual or threatened death or injury or a threat to an individual's physical integrity. Traumatic events can include events that one actually experienced or events that one has witnessed. Examples of traumatic events include physical or sexual assault and abuse, combat, natural disasters, terrorism, and serious illness. According to the criteria for PTSD set forth in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, for an individual to develop PTSD, the person must respond to the traumatic event with the feeling of intense fear, helplessness, or horror. In addition, to differentiate PTSD from temporary reactions to traumatic experiences, the individual also has to report experiencing symptoms of PTSD for at least 1 month, although in many instances symptoms can persist for years (Keane & Zimering, 2006).

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) was introduced under the mental health nomenclature in the year 1980 along with the manual of APA's (American Psychiatric Association's) statistics and diagnostics. Symptoms that occur in response to a particular stressor, however, have existed for centuries and have been referred to by terms such as nerve trauma hypothesis, shell shock, and stress response syndrome. An individual suffering from PTSD must is exposed to a traumatic event, including but not necessarily restricted to combat, that is outside the realm of ordinary experience to meet the criteria for PTSD.

The post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder from English), is defined by a constellation of symptoms, but unlike the case with other psychological disorders, the definition of this condition also includes the part concerning the origin of the same, or a traumatic event that the person has lived ...