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"...Intentional Human traumas are usually the worst. PTSD symptoms resulting from such stressors are usually more complex, are of longer duration, and are more difficult to treat for a number of reasons. Such traumas are typically the most degrading and cause the most shame. They often involve feelings of being stigmatized, marked, different, or an outcast (as in rape). Man-made traumas also are most likely to cause people to lost faith and trust inhumanity, in love, and in themselves. By contrast, natural disasters are, typically, less difficult to recover from. Survivors often bond. Often heroism and community support is evident. Survivors often feel a reverence or awe for nature that leaves faith in humanity in tact".
Event Re-Experienced...Intrusive memories
"In one sense, PTSD can be viewed as a fear of the unpleasant memories of the traumatic event that repeatedly intrude into one's awareness. Intrusive recollections can occur in the form of thoughts, images, or perceptions. These intrusions are unwelcome, uninvited, and painful, and the person wishes that they could put a stop to them. They often elicit feelings of fear and vulnerability, rage at the cause, sadness, disgust, or guilt. Sometimes they break through when one is trying to relax and one's guard is down. Sometimes a trigger that reminds one of the trauma will start the intrusions.
Nightmares are a common form of re-experiencing the trauma.
Flashbacks are a particularly upsetting form of re-experiencing the traumatic event.
Arousal
"Like other anxiety disorders, PTSD, is characterized by extreme general physical arousal, and/or arousal following exposure to internal or external triggers. The nervous system has become sensitized by an overwhelming trauma. Thu, two things happen. General arousal becomes elevated, while the nervous system overreacts to even smaller stressors. Signs of arousal include:
Troubled sleep includes difficulty falling or staying asleep...
Irritability or outburst of anger might be displayed as smashing things, heated arguing, flying off the handle, screaming, intense criticizing, or impatience.
Unresolved anger is fatiguing. It might be mixed with shame, frustration, betrayal, or other uncomfortable emotions that lead to moodiness and explosions of pent-up anger. One might then feel embarrassed or guilty.
Difficulty concentrating or remembering. It is difficult to remember when one is still battling for control of intrusive memories.
Hypervigilance. People who have endured a trauma will be on guard against intrusive memories....Hypervigilance might be demonstrated as:
~feeling vulnerable, fearful of lots of things, unable to feel calm in safe places
~fear of repetition
~anticipating disaster
~rapid scanning, looking over one's shoulder
~keeping a weapon or several weapons
~being overprotective or over controlling of loved ones
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