Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

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The paper explains that this is a psychiatric disorder that can occur in an individual if he has witnessed a threatening, traumatic event. The paper describes how one affected with post traumatic stress disorder will initially respond with fear, a sense of helplessness and intense horror and shock. The PTSD is developed later on, as the patient keeps reliving the event in nightmares and flashbacks, which in turn affect his very ability to function normally in his social circle and also within his family. The paper details the various symptoms and offers statistics that show a higher rate amongst women. The writer highlights that post traumatic stress disorder is indeed treatable and it is imperative that people know and acknowledge this.

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"What exactly is post traumatic stress disorder? This disorder, also known as PTSD, is a psychiatric disorder that can occur in an individual, if he has inadvertently happened to witness any sort of life threatening event such as a bombing, or an accident, or a natural disaster, or a rape or physical assault upon oneself. An individual who has been diagnosed as suffering from PTSD often suffers from sleep disorders, wherein his sleep patterns are disturbed by frequent nightmares and flashbacks, in which he is forced to re-live those particular life threatening events that pushed him into the PTSD. The person feels estranged and detached from real life events happening around him, and all these symptoms can be severe enough or long enough to force the person to live an impaired sort of life, with a large disruption of the daily routine."

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