Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Links
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a
lingering, deep-seated, negative, emotional response to an event in the past that
continues to cause undue levels of stress and anxiety. Post-traumatic stress is often
accompanied by nightmares, flashbacks, panic attacks, and anxiety that comes from out of
the blue. Post-traumatic stress, like the other anxiety disorders, responds best to
cognitive-behavioral therapy.
In the past, post-traumatic stress was often
seen as "battle fatigue" in service people returning from war. Now we know PTSD
occurs in other situations where trauma is involved, such as a rape, a natural disaster,
or being the victim of crime. These are just examples. The definition of PTSD covers any
event that produces lingering, emotionally devastating physical symptoms in an
individual.
POST-TRAUMATIC
STRESS DISORDER EXTERNAL LINKS
National Institutes of Mental
Health
David Baldwin's Trauma Pages |