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What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
When a person is confronted with a serious, disturbing, intense, out of the ordinary event, which has damaged or could have damaged his physical integrity or cause him serious injuries which could lead to death (accident, fire, war, physical or sexual assault, witness to murder, sudden death of a loved one, etc.), it can manifest acute physical and / or psychological reactions for a few days in response to the enormous stress suffered. These reactions are considered normal for a while and then give way to a bad memory. However, when after a certain time, for no apparent reason, these thoughts return and that they last beyond four weeks, this is called a Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
This disorder is characterized by a fear of great intensity accompanied by a feeling of despair or horror (disorganization or restlessness in children). The person constantly relives the traumatic event and avoids situations that remind him of it. PTSD is also accompanied by a decrease in emotional reactions as well as multiple anxiety reactions.
About 9% of the European population will develop this disorder during their lifetime. Depression accompanies the disorder in 30 to 80% of cases. Other disorders can develop as a result of trauma, such as substance abuse (alcohol and drugs), as well as other anxiety disorders. Anxiety is also known to be an aggravating factor for physical health problems. In children, specific symptoms may appear: emotions can be more difficult to express and are observed in disorganized or agitated behavior. Finally, sexual assault does not have to be violent to be traumatic. Any inappropriate sexual experience at the developmental stage can cause PTSD.
Warning signs
When the symptoms are present for more than a month, that they cause difficulties in functioning normally on social, professional levels, it can be PTSD. However, traumatic events do not cause PTSD in everyone who experiences them. Certain factors could lead to a vulnerability to develop the disorder: feeling biological weakness, having been the victim of physical or sexual abuse in the past, suffering from other mental health disorders, having had behavioral problems during childhood or in adolescence, be subjected to chronic stress.
sYMPTOMS
Symptoms of PTSD can appear soon after the event or be delayed and resurface much later (new stress or an anniversary, for example, can awaken memories of a previous trauma).
Symptoms fall into three main categories:
• Traumatic event relived persistently.
• Memories (images, thoughts, perceptions) of the event that re-appear at any time.
• Repetitive nightmares.
• Impression that the situation will happen again or sudden conviction to relive the event.
• Illusions, sudden flashbacks lasting from a few hours to a few days.
• Great distress and physiological reactivity in the presence of elements reminiscent of trauma.
• Avoid anything reminiscent of the trauma.
• Inability to remember an important aspect of the event.
• Marked loss of interest or decreased participation in activities that were important to the person before the trauma.
• Feeling of being in a fog.
• Feeling of being detached from others.
• Difficulty experiencing certain feelings.
• Loss of hope for projects that once held dear.
Neuro-vegetative activation symptoms
• Sleep problems.
• Irritability.
• Anger.
• Difficulty concentrating.
• Hyper-vigilance.
• Exaggerated startle in the face of a sudden noise, telephone, door clacking, etc….
The intensity and duration of the disorder vary from one individual to another and it is not necessary to have all the symptoms of each category mentioned above to receive the diagnosis.
treatments
After a traumatic event, the following hours are very important: do not stay alone (this is the time to enjoy our friendships, our families), regroup with other people with similar experience, avoid in the case mass disaster of listening to television news over and over again (this is even more true for children: according to some observations, children, even far from the event, may develop symptoms of PTSD at the sight of catastrophic images), s '' ensure adequate sleep, avoid voluntary poisoning (alcohol causes the illusion of good sleep, but disrupts normal sleep phases, increases anxiety, irritability, depressive symptoms ...) Verbalize n 'is not effective for everyone and in some cases, it allows the installation of symptoms by reliving the event "by force".
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
When a person is confronted with a serious, disturbing, intense, out of the ordinary event, which has damaged or could have damaged his physical integrity or cause him serious injuries which could lead to death (accident, fire, war, physical or sexual assault, witness to murder, sudden death of a loved one, etc.), it can manifest acute physical and / or psychological reactions for a few days in response to the enormous stress suffered. These reactions are considered normal for a while and then give way to a bad memory. However, when after a certain time, for no apparent reason, these thoughts return and that they last beyond four weeks, this is called a Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
This disorder is characterized by a fear of great intensity accompanied by a feeling of despair or horror (disorganization or restlessness in children). The person constantly relives the traumatic event and avoids situations that remind him of it. PTSD is also accompanied by a decrease in emotional reactions as well as multiple anxiety reactions.
About 9% of the European population will develop this disorder during their lifetime. Depression accompanies the disorder in 30 to 80% of cases. Other disorders can develop as a result of trauma, such as substance abuse (alcohol and drugs), as well as other anxiety disorders. Anxiety is also known to be an aggravating factor for physical health problems. In children, specific symptoms may appear: emotions can be more difficult to express and are observed in disorganized or agitated behavior. Finally, sexual assault does not have to be violent to be traumatic. Any inappropriate sexual experience at the developmental stage can cause PTSD.
Warning signs
When the symptoms are present for more than a month, that they cause difficulties in functioning normally on social, professional levels, it can be PTSD. However, traumatic events do not cause PTSD in everyone who experiences them. Certain factors could lead to a vulnerability to develop the disorder: feeling biological weakness, having been the victim of physical or sexual abuse in the past, suffering from other mental health disorders, having had behavioral problems during childhood or in adolescence, be subjected to chronic stress.
sYMPTOMS
Symptoms of PTSD can appear soon after the event or be delayed and resurface much later (new stress or an anniversary, for example, can awaken memories of a previous trauma).
Symptoms fall into three main categories:
• Traumatic event relived persistently.
• Memories (images, thoughts, perceptions) of the event that re-appear at any time.
• Repetitive nightmares.
• Impression that the situation will happen again or sudden conviction to relive the event.
• Illusions, sudden flashbacks lasting from a few hours to a few days.
• Great distress and physiological reactivity in the presence of elements reminiscent of trauma.
• Avoid anything reminiscent of the trauma.
• Inability to remember an important aspect of the event.
• Marked loss of interest or decreased participation in activities that were important to the person before the trauma.
• Feeling of being in a fog.
• Feeling of being detached from others.
• Difficulty experiencing certain feelings.
• Loss of hope for projects that once held dear.
Neuro-vegetative activation symptoms
• Sleep problems.
• Irritability.
• Anger.
• Difficulty concentrating.
• Hyper-vigilance.
• Exaggerated startle in the face of a sudden noise, telephone, door clacking, etc….
The intensity and duration of the disorder vary from one individual to another and it is not necessary to have all the symptoms of each category mentioned above to receive the diagnosis.
treatments
After a traumatic event, the following hours are very important: do not stay alone (this is the time to enjoy our friendships, our families), regroup with other people with similar experience, avoid in the case mass disaster of listening to television news over and over again (this is even more true for children: according to some observations, children, even far from the event, may develop symptoms of PTSD at the sight of catastrophic images), s '' ensure adequate sleep, avoid voluntary poisoning (alcohol causes the illusion of good sleep, but disrupts normal sleep phases, increases anxiety, irritability, depressive symptoms ...) Verbalize n 'is not effective for everyone and in some cases, it allows the installation of symptoms by reliving the event "by force".