Symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

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Symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder are symptoms that are observed and rapidly change in a person's emotional state as a result of an event.

Symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder are not expected to occur in every traumatized person. If the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder are observed intensely in the person after the trauma and this situation disrupts their general health and mental health, it must be treated.
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Symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder;

- Constant recall of the event in post-traumatic stress disorder,
- Visualization of images
- Do not act as if you are reliving the event in the present moment
- Feeling intense distress in the face of any stimulus that reminds you of the event
- Trauma-related nightmares
- Avoidance of situations, people, places, activities, objects that remind of the event in post-traumatic stress disorder
- In post-traumatic stress disorder, important details about the event are erased from memory,
- Constant fear,
- Living in a sense of terror,
- Negative generalizations about oneself and the outside world Loss of interest in the outside world,
- Emotional blunting,
- Disconnection from environments
- Being startled by sudden noises,
- Difficulty sleeping,
- Problems focusing on and maintaining a task,
- Sudden anger at even the smallest thing,
- Reduced tolerance.

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in a Traumatic Event Survivor

Symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder may not be observed in every traumatized person. Symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder are seen in people who have been exposed to this situation and have not recovered from the event. Not everyone exposed to trauma develops PTSD. Factors that constitute personal predisposition include introversion, high external locus of control, dysfunctional coping attitudes, guilt about surviving, excessive anger, genetic and physical predisposition, the meaning that the person gives to the trauma, recent stressful life events, history of psychiatric illness in the person or in the family, history of alcohol or substance abuse.
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Symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

- Persistent recall of the event in posttraumatic stress disorder,
- Visualization of images
- Do not act as if you are reliving the event in the present moment
- Intense distress in the face of any stimulus that reminds you of the event
- Trauma-related nightmares
- Avoidance of situations, people, places, activities, objects that remind of the event in post-traumatic stress disorder
- In post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms, important details about the event are erased from memory,
- Constant fear,
- Living in a sense of terror,
- Negative generalizations about oneself and the outside world Loss of interest in the outside world,
- Emotional blunting,
- Disconnection from environments
- Being startled by sudden noises,
- Difficulty sleeping,
- Problems focusing on and maintaining a task,
- Sudden anger at even the smallest thing,
- Reduced tolerance.

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in a Traumatic Event Survivor

Symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD does not occur in everyone exposed to trauma. Factors that constitute personal predisposition include introversion, high external locus of control, dysfunctional coping attitudes, guilt about surviving, excessive anger, genetic and physical predisposition, the meaning that the person gives to trauma, recent stressful life events, a history of psychiatric illness in the person or in the family, a history of alcohol or substance abuse.
In post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms, some physiological changes occur in the person after the trauma. Anxiety, fear, arousal, alertness, alertness, increased selective attention, which occur after the discharge of the sympathetic system, which is a protection system against the perception of danger in the body, are the biological responses of the individual for self-protection. Although increased blood pressure, sweating, and muscle tension may lead to a misconception that the person has heart disease, these are temporary bodily reactions that do not pose a life-threatening risk.
In post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms, some physiological changes occur in the person after the trauma.

This occurs after the discharge of the sympathetic system, which is a protection system against the perception of danger in the body;

- Anxiety,
- Fear,
- Arousal,
- A state of alertness,
- Increased selective attention is an individual's biological response to self-protection.
- Increased blood pressure,
- Sweating,
- Although muscle tension can lead to the misconception that a person has heart disease, these are temporary bodily reactions that are not life-threatening.
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CreatorNP Istanbul Hospital Editorial Board
Updated At05 March 2024
Created At25 October 2022
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