What is Post Traumatic Disorder?
Post-traumatic disorders are disorders that occur during an extremely severe stressful life event or a significant change in life, leading to persisting unpleasant circumstances, resulting in an adaptation disorder. An important point is the relative nature of the trauma, that is, it is important to consider individual, often particular vulnerability
Causes of Post Traumatic Disorder
It develops in people who have experienced emotional or physical stress (military operations, disasters, bandit attacks, rape, house fire).
Symptoms of Post-Traumatic Disorder
The experience of injury again and again in a dream, thoughts and waking state, while in the imagination the picture of the injury can be objective and lively. Characterized by emotional deafness to all other experiences in life, including relationships with other people, concomitant symptoms in the form of vegetative lability, depression and cognitive impairment. Lack of pleasure from life and its manifestations (anhedonia).
Children and old people suffer harder stress. The duration of the disorder is more than 1 month.
Treatment for Post Traumatic Disorder
Antidepressants, sleeping pills, if necessary antipsychotics. Group and family psychotherapy.