PTSD

Post‑traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a type of anxiety disorder. It can occur after you have gone through an extreme emotional trauma that involved the threat of injury or death. The diagnosis may be given when a group of symptoms, such as disturbing recurring flashbacks, avoidance or numbing of memories of the event, and hypersrousal, continue for more than a month after the occurrence of a traumatic event. Most people having experienced a traumatizing event will not develop PTSD. Women are more likely to experience higher impact events, and are also more likely to develop PTSD than men. Children are less likely to experience PTSD after trauma than adults, especially if they are under ten years of age. War Veterns are commonly at risk for PTSD. Before PTSD was known, it was known as Shell Shock. Shell Shock was a term coined to describe the reaction of some soldiers in World War I to the trauma of battle. It was a reaction to the intensity of the bombardment and fighting that produced a helplessness appearing variously as panic and being scared, or flight, an inability to reason, sleep, walk or talk. This was a common occurrence during World War I but none knew what it truely was until they had it themselves. When the men came back from war, people expected them to just blend back in with society and work again. But many couldn't, and they didn't know why. Then research was done and it was found that this was a real mental condition to be known as Post Traumatic

Stress Disorder.