PTSD

PTSD

What is PTSD?

PTSD stands for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. It is an anxiety disorder that can occur after you've ﻿seen or experienced a traumatic event that involved the threat of injury or death.

What Causes PT﻿SD?

Some examples of things that can cause PTSD are Some examples of spesific situations that can cause PTSD are 9-11-01, and The War in Iraq
 * Assault
 * Domestic Abuse
 * Prison Stay
 * Terrorism
 * Rape
 * War

What are some symptoms of PTSD?

A common symptom of ﻿PTSD is "reliving the event" where it disturbes day-to-day activities. In other words people have flash backs and repetative unsetteling memories, and nightmares of what happened.

Avoidance is another common symptom of PTSD. This could be an emotional numbing, showing less moods, or just simply avoiding people, places, and thoughts. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 130%;">Another common symptom of PTSD is arousal. This means that these people would be startled easily, and have exaggerated responses to things that starttle them.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 130%;">Along with thoes the most commons symptoms you can feal Guilt, Adgitation, Dizziness, Faintness, Rapid heart rate, and Headache.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 150%;">﻿What is the common view of a person with PTSD?

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 130%;">﻿The common perspective of someone with PTSD is the old soldior that has come back from a realy bad war scene and is all shelled up about it. The thing is not everyone with PTSD is a soldior and not everyone keeps it to themselfs. It can be anyone, from anything, and scientists still don't know if its genetic or even has a likelyer chance among families.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 150%;">What can I do if I have PTSD?

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 130%;">Desensitization is one thing that you can do. This is the treatment of reducing the symptoms by encouroging you ro remember the traumatic event and expressing your fealings about it. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 130%;">Support groups is also something you can do to help with PTSD. These groups let people know that they are not the only one out there with this kind of problem.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 150%;">Current News on PTSD

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 130%;">Recent studies find that the second-most prescribed antipsycotic drug for war veterans with PTSD does not work any better thatn a placebo. Statistic say that in 267 veterans who completed a study the drug risperidone did not reduce symptoms. The only two FDA-approved medication for treating PTSD are Zoloft and Paxil bot wich are antidepressants, though these are not the only two offered to people suffering with PTSD.

Attribution: A.D.A.M Med. "Post-traumatic Stress Disorder". A.D.A.M Med. A.D.A.M Med, 5 Mar. 2011. <[]>. 15 Sept. 2011

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Kine, Patricia. Key PTSD drug not effective, study finds. Army Times. 5 Aug. 2011. Print