Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), a mental disorder occurring when an experience causes detrimental problems. Causing a person to not be able to recover and move on from that experience. PTSD is most commonly seen with people in the army, in women, and in different ethnic and race groups other than Caucasian. When having PTSD it can come with symptoms such as: flashbacks and nightmares, sadness and anger, and being detached or estranged from people around. These multiple factors coming from this mental health disorder causes people to not live their life to its full potential. Someone full of life once before strayed away because of this traumatic experience. Some experiences to the extreme or some small experience that most move on from. None insufficient. The constant fear dragging around with this person. Most mental health disorders cause a person to feel like a double to their own self. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is one of them. There is this person they were before the traumatic experience and then there is this double of them that can’t seem to recover after the traumatic experience. PTSD not only affects the person themself but also the people close to them. Family and friends can grieve the person that was left behind and hate the double that is now. Now all these people see is a dull person not seeing the future ahead. They feel sadden for this person, wanting the best for them. For them to get better.
How do you get help for the mental health disorder Post Traumatic Stress Disorder? There is treatment available for people suffering from PTSD. There is medications and therapy available to help treat PTSD. In about 15-20 sessions of therapy it is proven that over half of the patients are relieved or helped with PTSD. Therapy and medication may not be a parament solution but will help tremendously with symptoms shown with PTSD.
Week 10 Blog Post: October 26, 2022