Thursday 11 August 2011

PTSD Symptoms And Signs


Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is an arousing disease that is referred as the stress turmoil and more often than not develops consequent to a very terrifying, severe and highly hazardous incident. PTSD sufferers relive the traumatic incident in some way, have a propensity to avoid places, people, or other things that jog their memory of the event, and are elegantly aware to real life incidents.
Three areas of indication are needed to the identification of Post traumatic stress disorders:
  • Regular reliving the distress such as, worrying reminiscences, flash backs which are more often than not caused by reminders of the upsetting actions, frequent incubi about the upset.
  • Escaping from the position of having a fear of places, people, and incidents which take the sufferer to the distress or a general deadening of disturbing receptiveness.
  • Never-ending material symptoms of hyper arousal, together with insomnia, difficulty in concentration, bad temper, resentment, collapses or trouble in recalling, augmented propensity and response to being worried, and excessive cautious to threats.
There are some general symptoms of PTSD which are considered fundamental and they are:
  • general restlessness,
  • insomnia,
  • aggressiveness,
  • depression,
  • dissociation,
  • emotional detachment,
  • nightmares
 Some Common Symptoms of Depression are:
  • Evading thoughts, feelings and activities connected with the distress.
  • Thoughts of disconnection from others and helplessness to feel affection for someone.
  • Lesser interest or involvement in societal activities.
  • Delayed or developmental retrogression in such areas as toilet training, motor skills and language.
  • Chronicle and disturbing thoughts associated with the trauma event.
  • Pain at anniversaries of the distress.
  • Depression about the future prospects.
  • Physical and mental antipathy along with insomnia, resentment, poor concentration, inflated scary reaction to noise, and physiological response to circumstances that jog your memory of the disturbing incident.


Children with PTSD stress may also show the following symptoms:
In children, re-living the pain may take place during recurring actions or incidents that have trauma linked premise instead of or in accumulation to reminiscences, and upsetting thoughts may have more common substance rather than of the disturbing incident itself.
  • Concerned about dying at early ages
  • Losing interest in activities
  • Having physical symptoms such as headaches and stomachaches
  • Presenting more abrupt and intense emotional responses
  • Having problems falling or staying asleep
  • Showing irritability or angry outbursts
  • Having poor concentration problems
  • Performing in a  younger manner than their ages
  • Showing increased cautiousness to the environment
  • Reiterating actions that reminds victims of the trauma
Headaches, gastrointestinal complaints, immune system problems, dizziness, chest pain, and discomfort in other body parts are ordinary in sufferers of PTSD.

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