5 Responses for "What are symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?"

1. Odie January 26th, 2010 at 3:06 am 1

   anxiety, panic attacks, sleep problems.
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2. Suzy January 26th, 2010 at 3:14 am 2

   Symptoms of intrusive memories may include:

   Flashbacks, or reliving the traumatic event for minutes or even days at a time
   Upsetting dreams about the traumatic event
   Symptoms of avoidance and emotional numbing may include:

   Trying to avoid thinking or talking about the traumatic event
   Feeling emotionally numb
   Avoiding activities you once enjoyed
   Hopelessness about the future
   Memory problems
   Trouble concentrating
   Difficulty maintaining close relationships
   Symptoms of anxiety and increased emotional arousal may include:

   Irritability or anger
   Overwhelming guilt or shame
   Self-destructive behavior, such as drinking too much
   Trouble sleeping
   Being easily startled or frightened
   Hearing or seeing things that aren’t there
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3. Dr. Brown January 26th, 2010 at 3:22 am 3

   If you had post tramatic stress, you would have trouble remembering the event because your mind would supress the memory, also you may suffer night terrors about the event. Depression can also come with post tramatic stress. Also it hard todiagnose yourself with post tramatic stress that normally takesa profesional such as myself to figure out. Go see a psychologist or psychiatrist.
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4. shelly January 26th, 2010 at 3:33 am 4

   Often with PTSD the person may be mentally transported (even for a second) back to whatever their traumatic situation was, and they react to the percieved danger in the situation from back then. They may have no expression regarding things going on around them because their perception is altered, and also because during a traumatic situation they may have had to keep going and not react to things they have seen, just simply as a coping mechanism so they could get through the situation. One of the most common examples is a war veteran who is driving under a bridge and a car backfires and all of a sudden they dive for the floor, thinking they are being shot at. Even if it causes a car crash they may not really react to that because #1 they are (in their mind) back in the war and not in a car crash, and #2, if you think about what they had to get through in a war, seeing people they know shot and blown up and death everywhere, the brain has a way of disengaging during that kind of trauma to not allow a normal emotional reaction because the person has to keep going in order to survive. anyway, hope this helps your understanding of it.
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5. dzerjb January 26th, 2010 at 3:58 am 5

   OK, it’s not that complicated. PTSD means that certain triggers can leave the sufferer reacting as if the original incident that caused the PTSD was still happening. So you might find a soldier immediately drop down into battle position if he hears a loud bang (re-experiencing), or a car accident victim might be unable to get into a car (avoidance).
   One of the ways of avoiding re-experiencing all the hurt & pain is simply to turn off all your feelings & emotions. Many PTSD sufferers do this as a way of handling everyday situations that might otherwise bring extreme terror or pain through flashbacks.
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