Post_Traumatic_Stress_Disorder

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Post Traumatic Stress Disorder After experiencing a traumatic event the mind has been known to pack away the details and memories and then send them back at unexpected times and places, sometimes after years have passed. It does so in a haunting way that makes the recall just as disturbing as the original event. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is the name for this mental condition that follows a psychologically distressing event "outside the range of usual human experience" (Internet). There are five diagnostic criteria for this disorder and there are no cures for this affliction, only therapies that lessen the burden of the symptoms. The root of the disorder is a traumatic event which implants itself so firmly in the mind that the person may be shackled by the pain and distress of the event indefinitely, experiencing it again and again as the mind stays connected with the past rather than the present, making it difficult to think of the future. Research on this topic is all rather recent, yet the disorder is quite common, threatening to control and damage the lives of approximately eight percent of the American population [5% of men and 10% of women]. Any person is a potential event, ptsd, symptoms, traumatic, disorder, person, people, after, stress, trauma, patient, experience, therapy, stimuli, others, one, nightmares, flashbacks, associated, years, workers, war, time, events, enough, develop, criterion, children, been, attack, without, weeks, through, themselves, sometimes, situations