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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. By Emily Duggan. What is it?. Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)- is an emotional illness that happens as a result to a frightening, life-threatening, or an unsafe experience. Causes & Symptoms.

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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

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  1. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder By Emily Duggan

  2. What is it? Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)- is an emotional illness that happens as a result to a frightening, life-threatening, or an unsafe experience

  3. Causes & Symptoms • Causes- childhood or sexual abuse, assault, natural or human disasters, accidents or war • Symptoms- scary thoughts or memories, emotionally detached, sleeping problems, or being easily startled nightmares, flashbacks, memory and concentration problems, hyper arousal, hyper vigilance, intrusive memories, avoidance, abnormal startle responses

  4. What’s it like • What it’s like- feeling grief-stricken, depressed, anxious, guilty and angry after their accident

  5. Treatments • Psychotherapy -learning how to think of your experience differently rather than thinking of it as scary • Medicine- relieving symptoms and depression • Body focused therapy- reduces hyper arousal, or the feeling of being "on guard" all the time.

  6. Bibliography • "Post Traumatic Stress Disorder." 2008. National Institute of Mental Health. September 22 <http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd/index.shtml>. • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. 2005. 9/22/08 <http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/mentalhealthinformation/mentalhealthproblems/posttraumaticstressdisorder/posttraumaticstressdisorder.aspxc>.  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. 2008. 9/22/08 <http://www.medicinenet.com/posttraumatic_stress_disorder/article.htm#what>.  • Douglas, Bremner. The Invisible Epidemic: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Memory and the Brain. 2008. 9/22/08 <http://www.thedoctorwillseeyounow.com/articles/behavior/ptsd_4/>. 

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