Introduction
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder is an anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety and insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience.
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can develop following a traumatic event that threatens your safety or makes you feel helpless.
Most people associate PTSD with battle-scarred soldiers—and military combat. The most common PTSD cause in men—but any overwhelming life experience can trigger PTSD, especially if the event feels unpredictable and uncontrollable.
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can affect those who personally experience the catastrophe, those who witness it, and those who pick up the pieces afterwards, including emergency workers and law enforcement officers. It can even occur in the friends or family members of those who went through the actual trauma.
PTSD develops differently from person to person. While the symptoms of PTSD most commonly develop in the hours or days following the traumatic event, it can sometimes take weeks, months, or even years before they appear. People with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD may relive the event via intrusive memories, and flashbacks; avoid anything that reminds them of the trauma; and have anxious feelings they didn’t have before that are so intense their lives are disrupted
Causes
Post- traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD can occur at any age. It can occur after events such as: war, natural disaster, plane crash, rape, physical and sexual abuse, terrorist attack etc…
PTSD most likely to occur during war, many soldiers witness kidnaping, killing, raping. All of these causes them to have