Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in layman terms would be someone who has suffered from a life-threatening event. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a recently identified mental disorder, having been formally named in the third edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–III; American Psychiatric Association, 1980). Many of the greatest psychiatrist such as Benjamin Rush, Pinel, and Briquet as well as several French Psychiatrist have studied the underlying reasons and factors stimulating from trauma and suggesting that mental disorders originate from trauma. Famous Psychiatrist Pierre Janet, Freud, Breuer as well as World War I and II all played a major part on the
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Pierre Janet and Sigmund Freud each had their own approach on wanting to uncover the relationship of how the mind processes traumatic experiences. Psychiatrist Pierre Janet broke down how cognitive, biological and psychodynamic effects of trauma show their relation to traumatic behavioral experiences. While other psychiatrist argued that if an individual suffering from a traumatic experience did not confront their feelings, there would most certainly leave the individual dissociated from the traumatic memories. Resulting in the individual reliving feelings of somatic sensations, behavior and reenactments as well as seeing visual images. Which mainly occurs in people suffering from PTSD and not receiving any help. Some of these findings for the symptoms for PTSD was formulated by studying war veterans. PTSD was first draft listed as Catastrophic Stress Disorder and later adopted/ revised to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in section “Reactive Disorders Not Elsewhere Classified”. Reason being was to show separation of this disorder from other disorders with similar symptoms but different diagnosis. PTSD was later moved to the section for anxiety disorder, for the DSM …show more content…
From my own personal experience, I think that Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) is the best method. I say this because it worked for me. Being able to talk with a therapist is great, because your therapist helps you understand that it is okay and that you’re not to blame for what transpired. Being able to ask questions and talk about how to resolve those feelings that you may have and not keep them bottled up, in my opinion, is the most effective form of therapy. I call it, “Learning how to cope.” It’s not only effective for PTSD matters but it helps in other avenues of life as well. More forms of treatment include Prolonged Exposure (PE), Eye Movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), group therapy and medication. All of these forms of treatment are effective in one way or another but the therapist can and will detect which form of treatment works best for each individual. What may work on one, may not work on
Pierre Janet and Sigmund Freud each had their own approach on wanting to uncover the relationship of how the mind processes traumatic experiences. Psychiatrist Pierre Janet broke down how cognitive, biological and psychodynamic effects of trauma show their relation to traumatic behavioral experiences. While other psychiatrist argued that if an individual suffering from a traumatic experience did not confront their feelings, there would most certainly leave the individual dissociated from the traumatic memories. Resulting in the individual reliving feelings of somatic sensations, behavior and reenactments as well as seeing visual images. Which mainly occurs in people suffering from PTSD and not receiving any help. Some of these findings for the symptoms for PTSD was formulated by studying war veterans. PTSD was first draft listed as Catastrophic Stress Disorder and later adopted/ revised to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in section “Reactive Disorders Not Elsewhere Classified”. Reason being was to show separation of this disorder from other disorders with similar symptoms but different diagnosis. PTSD was later moved to the section for anxiety disorder, for the DSM …show more content…
From my own personal experience, I think that Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) is the best method. I say this because it worked for me. Being able to talk with a therapist is great, because your therapist helps you understand that it is okay and that you’re not to blame for what transpired. Being able to ask questions and talk about how to resolve those feelings that you may have and not keep them bottled up, in my opinion, is the most effective form of therapy. I call it, “Learning how to cope.” It’s not only effective for PTSD matters but it helps in other avenues of life as well. More forms of treatment include Prolonged Exposure (PE), Eye Movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), group therapy and medication. All of these forms of treatment are effective in one way or another but the therapist can and will detect which form of treatment works best for each individual. What may work on one, may not work on