How Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Engulfs Your Mind

Tue, 06/10/2008 - 13:28 — London Wellbein...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD is described as a state of anxiety disorder that is triggered by any grave event. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder occurs when the victim confronts any extreme psychological trauma in the past, which gives rise to a strangulating situation of stress disorder later. PTSD is considered to be more serious than traumatic stress, whose intensity and duration are both less.

Understanding Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

PTSD is very much complicated and is caused by psychological trauma. The sources of the traumatic conditions are very grueling, since they have a consequential impact on the mind. The victim of PTSD usually has faced some childhood or adult emotional, physical or sexual abuse, which triggers the present state of problem. The traumatic events that give birth to PTSD are grave and the person passing through the phrase must have met a serious twist in the past that bifurcated his/her life onto a very different track. However, the matter should be very intensifying to result in a Post Traumatic Stress Disorder for the victim. The usual events include kidnapping, torture, violent assault, experiencing some natural disaster, violent car accidents and so on.

Hence, to brief down the causes of the disorder post stress traumatic events, have a look at the following:
- life experiences
- biological and gene factors
- changes in the natural chemicals of the brain
- changes in your temperament

The Symptoms of Disorder Post stress traumatic Events

Some major signs indicating Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in any victim includes viewing flashbacks of the past events or experiencing a deja vu at every moment of your life. Sometimes, you may also feel emotionally numb and that will stop you from thinking normally. You may also take resort to excessive drinking and smoking and face serious problems in getting sound sleep or problem in concentrating. Sometimes, when the victim encounters any similar kind of events or returns to the same date then he/she recollects the bitter memory in a flash and the traumatic phase returns.

Some Preventive Measures

Critical Incident Stress Management or CISM is useful in reducing the impact of traumatic disorders. Though CISM is effective for many, but it has proved to be non-beneficial for a few. EMDR or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is targeted for the treatments of PTSD. This is considered quite an effective treatment for many.

You can also take medications like Propranolol, which is a beta-blocker and has the ability to pacify the formation of traumatic memories. Therapists have found a better way of treating PTSD. There is a combination of psychotherapies that include group therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy and exposure therapy, all combined to treat the patients suffering from chronic mind disorders.  Yoga is now considered very effective worldwide and many are taking suit of the helpful effects of the physical and mental exercises to overcome the fear haunting from the past.

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