Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder that may occur in people who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event, series of events or set of circumstances. An individual may experience this as emotionally or physically harmful or life-threatening and may affect mental, physical, social, and/or spiritual well-being. Examples include natural disasters, serious accidents, terrorist acts, war/combat, rape/sexual assault, historical trauma, intimate partner violence and bullying.
Have you seen kids, children, they like to stand, walk, how many times they fall down, they get hurt also, cry for 2 minutes but then again start running, there is no trauma in their life, they want to progress, they want to move ahead, that pain is nothing for them, but parents, then they instill fear in child, don’t run, don’t go there, you will get hurt, hurt is something which makes you more strong, more capable, but here negativity is instilled.
You see a disorder occurs when you are experiencing or witnessing some very painful situation, so this disorder is called as post-traumatic stress disorder, here person after experiencing that stress, traumatic situation is not recovering, let me assure you that it is very easy to deal with this PTSD, because it is all in the mind.
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Symptoms
You are constantly distracted by those thoughts, those thoughts are haunting on you, automatically then you have a disturbed sleeping pattern, person has a nightmare, dreaming about all those incidences which he has seen which are traumatic, person usually gets into self-harming or very destructive behavior.
Very often the symptom is of feeling sick and trembling because no relaxation has occurred, you want to just forget it and so you go to alcohol, smoking and all such destructive activities, so person’s behavior changes, he starts avoiding all those things which have caused such trauma, situation, people, place, all this happens, but you should know that there must be some reason, isn’t it, that such things are happening.
The first undergoing very serious situation like you are a very close family member, sudden death, that could be a very big cause, even during childhood, you have witnessed something unusual, very painful, when person goes through himself a serious accident or seeing even serious accidents, when you see lots of pain and suffering, that brings trauma, experiencing wild behavior, physical abuse, assaults, robberies, you see such traumatic situations have a very serious effects, so understand these effects, a person is unable to function to its optimistic level.
When insomnia occurs, all hormonal imbalances take place, continuously replay of all these incidents in your head, you are very narrowed down to your incidents which you faced and so you compare everything in your life around that, there is emotional numbing, person looks very dazed, the whole family is affected because of this PTSD and that really breaks down the good, positive, happy relationship, it ultimately leads to a suicidal tendency because they feel that there is no hope only, mind is stuck, so why do you need to be so miserable.
Here are some solutions, you see yoga always says, become aware about that triggering factor, if that little triggering factor is there, remove that because you are going to fast, be busy in present tense and pick up some work and start doing that and that would just take you out from this, very often we feel that I am tired of thinking, so let me rest, so you lie down, don’t do that, instead of that, practice what is called as vishwanth bhav.
Quickly light a candle and look at the flame of the candle, this is called as prataka and focus in your mind on that bright light, some of the asanas which would also help you, first would be yoga mudra, do it systematically, do it on the sides first and do at the centre and do it very nicely with breathing rhythm, sit on the floor, spread your legs straight and then bend forward to touch your head to the knee, whenever you want to lie down, lie down on your left side which is called as pranasana and that would help in being active in present.
Instead of sleeping, be active during day so much that these activities would come in your thoughts at night, so in night you are again doing activity in your dream and that would help you to come out of the traumatic time.
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Treatment
It is important to note that not everyone who experiences trauma develops PTSD, and not everyone who develops PTSD requires psychiatric treatment. For some people, symptoms of PTSD subside or disappear over time. Others get better with the help of their support system (family, friends or clergy). But many people with PTSD need professional treatment to recover from psychological distress that can be intense and disabling. It is important to remember that trauma may lead to severe distress. That distress is not the individual’s fault, and PTSD is treatable. The earlier a person gets treatment, the better chance of recovery.
Psychiatrists and other mental health professionals use various effective (research-proven) methods to help people recover from PTSD. Both talk therapy (psychotherapy) and medication provide effective evidence-based treatments for PTSD.
Medication
Medication can help to control the symptoms of PTSD. In addition, the symptom relief that medication provides allows many people to participate more effectively in psychotherapy.
Some antidepressants such as SSRIs and SNRIs (selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors and serotonin-norepinephrine re-uptake inhibitors), are commonly used to treat the core symptoms of PTSD. They are used either alone or in combination with psychotherapy or other treatments.
Other medications may be used to lower anxiety and physical agitation, or treat the nightmares and sleep problems that trouble many people with PTSD.
Last but not least, love yourself, you have strength, you have capacity, you have goodness, love yourself, understand traumas can always have a very lasting effect and that would make your life really miserable but choice is yours, do you want to continue a life which is full of pain, suffering and misery or you want to come out as a winner, you have a choice, all you have to do is to have faith in yourself.