2020-05-29

The Ramifications of Posttraumatic stress disorder

    21st century schizoid man
PTSD can raise it's ugly head in various situations. It is a manifestion of some traumatic life event in the victim ... who may not even recall just what that event was.

Posttraumatic stress disorder is classified as a mental disorder and is episodic with some people having frequent severe episodes while others maintain control and have milder, fewer episodes. The American Psychiatric Association began recognition of it in 1980 in the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III).

Consultants say that cases which are subclinical and rare do not actually qualify for the diagnosis of PTSD, but it is there nonetheless. Control is that determinate factor.

Symptoms of PTSD may include disturbing thoughts and/or feelings, mental or physical distress to trauma-related cues with attempts to avoid those trauma-related cues, alterations in affect and ideation, increase in the fight-or-flight response, and/or dreams related to the events. Other people get twitchy and tremorous with the general consensus being to allow the tremors to pass naturally with a timespan lasting in the range of a few hours.

Some symptoms are protracted and severe. Others simplistic and trivial in appearance.