Post Traumatic Stress Disorder :: Post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD

After experiencing a detrimenttic impression, the mind has been known to horde away the details and memories and then send them hold at unexpected times and places, sometimes after years have passed. It does so in a haunting way that makes the recall just as disturbing as the original event. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is the name for the acquired mental condition that follows a psychologically distressing event distant the range of usual human experience (Bernstein, et al). There are five diagnostic criteria for this distract and there are no cures for this affliction, only therapies which lessen the outcome of the symptoms. The root of the disorder is a traumatic event which implants itself so firmly in the mind that the person whitethorn be shackled by the annoying and distress of the event indeinately, experiencing it again and again as the mind stays connected with the past rather than the present, making it difficult to think of the future. The research on this topic is all rather recent as the disorder was only added to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III) in the last twenty years. Yet, the disorder is quite common, threatening to control and damage the lives of approximately eight percent of the American population 5% of men and 10% of women. Any person is a electromotive force candidate for developing posttraumatic stress disorder if subject to enough stress. There is no predictor or determining factor as to who will develop PTSD and who will not. Although all people who suffer from it have experienced a traumatic event, not all people who experience a traumatic event will develop PTSD. Each persons individual capacity for coping with catastrophic events determines their risk of acquiring PTSD. And not everyone will experience the same symptoms some may suffer only a few mild symptoms for a short period of time, others may be completely absorbed, still others who experience great trauma may never develop any symptoms at all (Friedman).More than any other psychological problem, symptoms are a reaction to an overwhelming outside(a) event, or series of events. From a historical perspective, the concept of PTSD made a significant change in the usual stipulation that the cause of a disorder could be outside of the self, rather than some inherent individual weakness (Friedman).