What y'all think?
Here is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
My wife and I currently run an agency where we provide basic skills training, psychosocial rehabilitation, and counseling/therapy sessions to children in the custody of Department of Family Services. Our clients have an SED (Severely Emotional Disturbed) diagnosis and many have PTSD. Our current foster child has PTSD. So I'm fairly familiar with its manifestations.
Here's a definition of the disorder:
Symptoms are:
Post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms may include:
http://health.yahoo.com/stress-over...nic--181CCBB4-A467-4D76-A3488529DC3DBEE9.html
Blackbird
Here is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
My wife and I currently run an agency where we provide basic skills training, psychosocial rehabilitation, and counseling/therapy sessions to children in the custody of Department of Family Services. Our clients have an SED (Severely Emotional Disturbed) diagnosis and many have PTSD. Our current foster child has PTSD. So I'm fairly familiar with its manifestations.
Here's a definition of the disorder:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posttraumatic_stress_disorderPTSD is an anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to one or more terrifying events that threatened or caused grave physical harm. It is a severe and ongoing emotional reaction to an extreme psychological trauma.[3] This stressor may involve someone's actual death, a threat to the patient's or someone else's life, serious physical injury, or threat to physical or psychological integrity, overwhelming psychological defenses. In some cases it can also be from profound psychological and emotional trauma, apart from any actual physical harm.
Symptoms are:
Post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms may include:
Flashbacks, or reliving the traumatic event for minutes or even days at a time
Shame or guilt
Upsetting dreams about the traumatic event
Trying to avoid thinking or talking about the traumatic event
Feeling emotionally numb
Irritability or anger
Poor relationships
Self-destructive behavior, such as drinking too much
Hopelessness about the future
Trouble sleeping
Memory problems
Trouble concentrating
Being easily startled or frightened
Not enjoying activities you once enjoyed
Hearing or seeing things that aren't there
http://health.yahoo.com/stress-over...nic--181CCBB4-A467-4D76-A3488529DC3DBEE9.html
Blackbird