Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

PTSD Most people experience stress in their lives, it can be when a person is young or at an older age. People tend to experience traumatic events and brush them off. Those brushed-off feelings and experiences tend to come back and haunt us at a later stage. PTSD is a disorder characterised by failure to recover after experiencing or witnessing a terrifying event. This usually occurs when a person has experienced a scary, shocking, and dangerous event.

With this condition, it doesn’t go away overnight or the minute you stop thinking about the certain event that took place. The condition may last months or years, with triggers that can bring back memories of the trauma accompanied by intense emotional and physical reactions.

Common symptoms of PTSD

Vivid flashbacks (feeling like the trauma is happening right now)
Intrusive thoughts or images.
Experiencing nightmares
Having intense distress at real or symbolic reminders of the trauma.
Having sensations such as pain, sweating, nausea, or trembling.

Things that make PSTD worse

Sights
Sounds
Smells
Thoughts that remind you of the traumatic experience Symptoms of PTSD
Fear
Bad memory
Agitation
Anger
Self-destruction
Insomnia
Flashbacks
Hallucinations
Nightmares
Hopelessness

Treatment of PTSD

The goal of PTSD treatment is to reduce the emotional and physical symptoms, improve daily functioning, and help the person better manage the event that triggered the disorder. Doctors often treat this condition with therapy or medications. It depends on what type of treatment a person requires. It is important that if you have / experience PTSD see a doctor and get the necessary treatment, in order to be able to function at the best of your ability. This condition can be treated and people with PTSD can get through it for as long as they get help.