Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

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This paper focuses on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), a serious psychiatric disorder caused by extreme stress under dangerous or potentially dangerous situations. The paper examines how the disorder develops. The paper explores how common it is among soldiers returning from war and suggests methods for treating the condition. The paper explores the incapacitating effects the disorder can have on those suffering from PTSD.

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"Any traumatic event (wartime experience, a natural disaster, an accident, a life-threatening illness--or an act of terrorism) can present a clear threat to the existing conceptual framework one relies on to understand the world. While the condition is a psychiatric one, often the person with PTSD responds with physical signs. They can include increased or irregular heart rate and blood pressure, headache, dizziness, and severe anxiety, along with feelings of fear or panic, emotional responses that range from guilt to uncertainty to anger, and cognitive problems including poor concentration, difficulty making decisions, forgetfulness, hypervigilance, inability to stop thinking about the traumatic events, exaggerated startle response, withdrawal, and tendency toward antisocial behavior (Harbert, 2002). Clearly such a collection of symptoms can be incapacitating, and many people with PTSD have marked difficulty holding a job or maintaining comfortable relationships with loved ones and friends."

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