Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

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This paper examines how post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD ) arises in relation to events that are unusual or abnormal in a person's daily life and how most victims of PTSD experience it in different intensities or for different lengths of time. In particular, it explores how there are five specific post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) reactions that are indigenous to women. It examines how it is virtually impossible from simply looking at a person to tell what is hidden away and repressed in the subconscious mind and how, in the case of PTSD, especially for women, feelings and emotions may be totally suppressed.

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Definition
PTSD Symptoms
Examples of PTSD Reactions
Birth and Bonding
Self-Mutilation
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"An emotional loss, such as the death of a loved one, can cause the experience known as grief. How a person learns to cope with this feeling varies greatly, but generally they can rise to the surface from the depths of the mind which may trigger a coping mechanism where the person ignores or pretends the event never happened. This area of emotional loss raises the problem of social and family conditioning, especially with women trapped in a male-dominated organization, where a woman might have been raised to deny or bury her feelings and emotions in order to protect her male counterparts. Of course, emotional loss is also connected with physical loss, for they go hand in hand during many traumatic events."

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