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Symptoms Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Post-traumatic stress disorder: when trauma means more than physical hurt Symptoms Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms Post Traumatic Stress Disorder People with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have three types of complaints: • Reliving the trauma again and again. The person relives the trauma through visions of the incident, nightmares and ‘flashbacks’ (feeling as if the traumatic incident […]
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The person who has experienced a traumatic event
The person who has experienced a traumatic event An incident that makes a person fear for his life or causes him extreme distress is a traumatic event. There are different types of traumatic events: • Personal trauma. This is an incident that threatens a particular person, for example being raped, losing a loved one (bereavement), being a […]
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Exposure to Traumatic Events
Posttraumatic stress disorder is unusual in the psychiatric nosology in that it ascribes etiological significance to a particular type of life experience— exposure to a traumatic event. Although such ticipants who indicated that they had experienced one potential trauma reported experiencing two or more types of trauma. In the NCS, which used DSM-III-R criteria for […]
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Traumatic events and depression
Traumatic sources of depression Sometimes the onset of the depression can be traced back to shortly after a trauma, or a traumatic period, in one’s life. This can often result in depression especially if the trauma has not been worked with or resolved in some effective way. Depression here can be seen as a symptom […]
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