Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that is triggered from traumatic experiences such as, horrid childhood, flashbacks, and possibly nightmares. Natural disasters, rape, sexual assaults, war veterans, or any other serious experiences could lead to having post-traumatic stress disorder.
PTSD has several symptoms, which vary from diagnosed patients. Symptoms occur naturally to stressful events such as, irritability, anxiety, depression, guilt, increasing substance abuse, negativity, and hyper alertness (Narins, & Gale, 2013). The most common symptom would be flashbacks because it triggers memories that could lead to the reliving tragic event over and over again. Not every symptom that a patient experiences are considered PTSD, instead symptoms tend to begin three months to a couple of years to develop. For a psychologist, or psychiatrists to diagnose a patient with PTSD should have at least one re-experiencing, three avoidance, or two hyperarousal symptoms. A re-experiencing symptom would be having nightmares, bad dreams. Avoidance symptoms include loss of interest, unable to remember stressful events, or staying away from …show more content…
Regular therapy can include to see a therapist couple of times in a week. Most therapists will do the psychotherapy, another form of talking, to help treat the disorder without medications. This type of therapy should help teach patients how to control anger, helpful tips for daily routines, and how to relax. Medical therapy is when patients are prescribed antianxiety or antidepressant such as a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, SSRIs, to help them with the treatment. Sertraline, or Paroxetine, which are SSRI drugs, are helpful medications to treat PTSD. They help control the sadness, emptiness, and worries that patients feel with PTSD. Not only can an antidepressant be prescribed, but also a benzodiazepine like alprazolam to help with
PTSD has several symptoms, which vary from diagnosed patients. Symptoms occur naturally to stressful events such as, irritability, anxiety, depression, guilt, increasing substance abuse, negativity, and hyper alertness (Narins, & Gale, 2013). The most common symptom would be flashbacks because it triggers memories that could lead to the reliving tragic event over and over again. Not every symptom that a patient experiences are considered PTSD, instead symptoms tend to begin three months to a couple of years to develop. For a psychologist, or psychiatrists to diagnose a patient with PTSD should have at least one re-experiencing, three avoidance, or two hyperarousal symptoms. A re-experiencing symptom would be having nightmares, bad dreams. Avoidance symptoms include loss of interest, unable to remember stressful events, or staying away from …show more content…
Regular therapy can include to see a therapist couple of times in a week. Most therapists will do the psychotherapy, another form of talking, to help treat the disorder without medications. This type of therapy should help teach patients how to control anger, helpful tips for daily routines, and how to relax. Medical therapy is when patients are prescribed antianxiety or antidepressant such as a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, SSRIs, to help them with the treatment. Sertraline, or Paroxetine, which are SSRI drugs, are helpful medications to treat PTSD. They help control the sadness, emptiness, and worries that patients feel with PTSD. Not only can an antidepressant be prescribed, but also a benzodiazepine like alprazolam to help with