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What are the symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?
Question : What are the symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?
What are the symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder and how do they differ from the symptoms of just stress?
What can be done to help someone heal over PTSD?
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Answer by airborneshsu
There are many symptoms of PTSD. These signs are really broken down in three categories, Physical, Emotional, and Behavioral.
Emotional include: Anxiety, guilt, fear, denial….mainly dealing with someone who was close to the person who died..but does not have too…
Behavioral can be drinking more, pacing around the house, using drugs…
Physical can be loss of sleep, restlessness, lack of hunger, irritability, fatigue, vomiting, sweating, increased heart rate.
Hope this helps,
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#2 written by Kara 1 year ago
its triggered by a life changing event when you saw someone die or you almost (or thought you would) die or hearing about a traumatic event usually. the main symptoms are replaying it over and over and over and over in your head and cant stop, nightmares and avoiding things that make you think about the event, which generalises to heaps of things. Also, sweating, pacing, abusing alcohol or drugs to forget, anger, depression, anxiety. it is so much worse than normal stress. It usually starts about 4 to 6 weeks after the event. You improve by getting help fast: medication and a good therapist who specialised in trauma.
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#3 written by ReggieR 1 year ago
Some basic symptoms: effort to avoid thoughts or feelings associated with trauma.
efforts to avoid activities arouse recollection of trauma
inability to recall an important aspect of event
markedly diminished interest in significant activities
feelings of detachment from others
restricted range of affects
increased startle reflex
increased dreams of like events
intense psychological distress at exposure to events that symbolize or resemble an aspect of event.There are several good sites to look up Mental health issues. One being NAMI.org and then looking up diagnosis. Or Mental Health America.net
And as far as counseling you need to look for someone with experience with PTSD. and yes many people live good productive lives. Feel Free to email me if you’d like to chat. God Bless Reggie -
#4 written by Bulldog mama 1 year ago
Symptoms of PTSD include nightmares, flashbacks, intrusive thoughts of the trauma, hyperarousal (e.g., startling easily or hypervigilance), and psychological numbing which can include inability to remember parts of the trauma. These are only some of the symptoms. It is essentially stress that has gone ‘underground’ but keeps leaking out. In order to diagnose PTSD, the symptoms need to persist past the time of the trauma more than a month. It can be chronic or acute. Symptoms may not surface before 6 months and can occur even later.
There are a number of good books available on the subject (The PTSD workbook) but I strongly suggest you get a counselor or therapist with experience in the area. It worked for me.,,,
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I myself have very very severe chronic complex post traumatic stress disorder.
I found that symptoms were clinical depression, nightmares, flashbacks, hallucinations, mood swings, aggression, paranoia and other “intrusive thoughts.”
I have found antipsychotic medications very useful – specifically 20mg a day olanzapine and 150 mg a day chlorpromazine. I was also on a mood stabiliser – sodium valproate 2250 mg a day. I found that SSRI antidepressants were completely USELESS and it is very dangerous to prescribe fluoxetine to a very vulnerable person so be very careful about that. I have had intensive EMDR and EFT therapy. I found the EMDR to be very useful but it does tend to stir things up a bit so you need to be strong enough to deal with all the difficult stuff that will come up. Think about this carefully before making a concrete decision. There are many treatments available for PTSD – rewind therapy, CBT, DBT, etc. I found that DBT was very useful in getting over my self harming behaviour and that CBT was no use whatsoever.
Hope this helps if you’ve got any questions feel free to email me
Dan