What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?
“According to the American Psychiatric Association, Post-traumatic stress disorder is known to be an anxiety disorder that resulted from a particular tragic or terrifying incident stimulating major stress. Individual with PTSD normally have constant frightening thoughts & memories of their past encounters, this makes them emotionally numb to their close relatives or friends.
PTSD knows no age limit or barrier, it can happen at any age. This disorder interrupts people’s daily activities, there’s constant recollection of the trauma during the day or at night. People suffering from PTSD may lose interest in activities they used to like; they get more irritable and aggressive. In addition, they try to avoid places that could remind them of their traumatic past. …show more content…
Re-experiencing the Past Event
a) Individual feel like he/she is going through the event again, this condition is called a flashback.
b) Constant nightmares
c) There could be a trigger, which is something that reminds one of the events. Triggers could be an accident scene, hearing gunshots or News on TV.
2. Negative Outlooks in beliefs and feeling
a) A person with PTSD starts to think …show more content…
In cognitive therapy, the therapist helps the client to understand and change how they view about the trauma and its after effect. A soldier may feel terrible about the killings during the war, by talking about the past events one after the other, the therapist then uses relaxation method to quench the anxiety. The client will learn the habit of replacing his/her thoughts, with a more valid & less distressing thoughts. The clients may also be allowed to classify the events into his/her concept of self and of the world (Chard et al.,
“According to the American Psychiatric Association, Post-traumatic stress disorder is known to be an anxiety disorder that resulted from a particular tragic or terrifying incident stimulating major stress. Individual with PTSD normally have constant frightening thoughts & memories of their past encounters, this makes them emotionally numb to their close relatives or friends.
PTSD knows no age limit or barrier, it can happen at any age. This disorder interrupts people’s daily activities, there’s constant recollection of the trauma during the day or at night. People suffering from PTSD may lose interest in activities they used to like; they get more irritable and aggressive. In addition, they try to avoid places that could remind them of their traumatic past. …show more content…
Re-experiencing the Past Event
a) Individual feel like he/she is going through the event again, this condition is called a flashback.
b) Constant nightmares
c) There could be a trigger, which is something that reminds one of the events. Triggers could be an accident scene, hearing gunshots or News on TV.
2. Negative Outlooks in beliefs and feeling
a) A person with PTSD starts to think …show more content…
In cognitive therapy, the therapist helps the client to understand and change how they view about the trauma and its after effect. A soldier may feel terrible about the killings during the war, by talking about the past events one after the other, the therapist then uses relaxation method to quench the anxiety. The client will learn the habit of replacing his/her thoughts, with a more valid & less distressing thoughts. The clients may also be allowed to classify the events into his/her concept of self and of the world (Chard et al.,