If you’ve had a traumatic experience, you may be struggling with disturbing emotions, frightening memories or a sense that something bad is going to happen. You might also feel numb, disconnected and unable to trust others. Emotional trauma results from extremely stressful events that shatter your sense of security, leaving you feeling helpless and vulnerable.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is an outcome of psychological trauma. This can happen when someone has witnessed or experienced a traumatic event that involved actual or threatened death or serious injury, or a threat to his or her own physical integrity. In PTSD, the person responds with intense fear, helplessness or horror. (Children may respond with disorganized or agitated behavior.)
People with PTSD may re-experience the trauma through flashbacks or recurring nightmares. They may avoid people, places or things that remind them of the stressful event. People with PTSD may also experience some of these symptoms:
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is an outcome of psychological trauma. This can happen when someone has witnessed or experienced a traumatic event that involved actual or threatened death or serious injury, or a threat to his or her own physical integrity. In PTSD, the person responds with intense fear, helplessness or horror. (Children may respond with disorganized or agitated behavior.)
People with PTSD may re-experience the trauma through flashbacks or recurring nightmares. They may avoid people, places or things that remind them of the stressful event. People with PTSD may also experience some of these symptoms:
- Efforts to avoid the thoughts, feelings, places or people associated with the trauma
- Inability to recall an important aspect of the trauma
- Marked decrease in interest in significant activities
- Feeling estranged from others
- Unable to love or have other feelings
- Feelings of doom
- Difficulty falling asleep
- Outbursts of anger
- Difficulty concentrating
- Feeling overanxious
- Exaggerated startle response
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