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PTSD
Tiya, a 12 years old girl, was behaving very weirdly for the past few weeks.
One day, she finally told her mom that, few weeks back while coming from school she was badly eve-teased by two young men, who touched her in an inappropriate manner and since that day she’s always thinking about this and felt disgusted.
Her mother immediately took her to a child psychologist, where she’d been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
After a traumatic experience, it’s normal to feel frightened, sad, anxious, and disconnected.
Any event, or series of events, that overwhelms you with feelings of hopelessness and helplessness and leaves you emotionally shattered, can trigger PTSD—especially if the event feels unpredictable and uncontrollable.
Following a traumatic event, almost everyone experiences
at least some of the symptoms of PTSD.
When your sense of safety and trust are shattered, it’s normal to feel unbalanced, disconnected, or numb. It’s very common to have bad dreams, feel fearful, and find it difficult to stop thinking about what happened.
These are normal reactions to abnormal events.
But if you have post-traumatic stress disorder, the symptoms don’t decrease.
You don’t feel a little better each day. In fact, you may start to feel worse.
SYMPTOMS
MAIN
SYMPTOMS
SYMPTOMS OF
Post Traumatic Stress
Disorder (PTSD).
There are four main types of symptoms
- Re-experiencing the traumatic event through intrusive memories, flashbacks, nightmares, or intense mental or physical reactions.
- Avoidance and numbing, such as avoiding anything that reminds you of the trauma, being unable to remember aspects of the ordeal etc.
- Hyperarousal, including sleep problems, irritability, hypervigilance,
- self-destructive, or reckless behavior.
- Negative thought and mood changes like feeling alienated and
- alone, difficulty concentrating, depression, self-blame etc.
TREATMENT
TREATMENT
OF
Post Traumatic Stress
Disorder (PTSD).
self-help
- Challenge your sense of helplessness
One of the best ways to reclaim your sense of power is by helping others: volunteer your time, give blood etc.
- Get moving
Exercise can improve your mood and outlook. Exercise can actually help your nervous system become “unstuck” and begin to move out of the immobilization stress response.
- Reach out to others for support
PTSD can make you feel disconnected from others. But it’s important to stay connected to life and the people who care about you. Reach out to someone you can connect with for an uninterrupted period of time, someone who will listen when you want to talk without judging, criticizing, or continually getting distracted.
Support PTSD treatment with a healthy lifestyle
The symptoms of PTSD can be hard on your body so it’s important to take care of yourself and develop some healthy lifestyle habits.
FIGHT
Most of us prone to get encountered with some or the other tough situations which might leave a great impact in our lives.
But everything depends on our outlook, if we learn to move ahead and make ourselves stronger then we have already won the battle.
If life is tough then you show life that you’re tougher.