Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ( Ptsd ) - 2082 Words

PTSD There are multiple mental illnesses and diseases that everyone has the chance of catching. One in particular is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). PTSD is a condition that someone experiences when trauma related symptoms or impairment in everyday functioning last for a month to a lifetime (1). It occurs when someone can not bounce back from a traumatic event or experience. Even though some people can be in the exact situation and be the same age and gender there is a chance that only one will develop PTSD. Why is that? There are many possible reasons why some people develop PTSD and others do not, the main reasons are thought to be a person s background, genetics and environment. PTSD can only be diagnosed in a person with†¦show more content†¦Back to the car crash example, if the person is experiencing an avoidance symptom, then they could be really hesitant about going places that they normally would have to use a car to go to. They could also be less excited to g o to a place that they used to love to go to because they would have to drive there. Symptoms can be a range of a lot of things so children and adults don t always have the same symptoms when it comes to diseases or illness or any medical issue. For example, PTSD in young children some symptoms include bedwetting, forgetting how to talk, being unusually clingy and acting out the scary part during playtime and for older children and teens symptoms mostly follow what the adult symptoms are they include guilty, disrespectful and destructive feelings (1). PTSD consists of three classes and those are lifetime, in remission with relapses and delayed onset. Lifetime is self explanatory and it is where you are expected to have PTSD for the rest of your life, it is when the person can not bounce back or overcome the experience. In remission with relapses is when you are getting over the disorder, but still have some minor set backs like a panic attack or an angry outburst on occasion. Delaye d onset is the rare chance that someone does not show any symptoms until up to six months after a traumatic event. Sometimes it may take even years for someone with delayed onset to be