Monday, November 28, 2011

What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?

What is PTSD?
Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an emotional illness that that is classified as an anxiety disorder and usually develops as a result of a terribly frightening, life-threatening, or otherwise highly unsafe experience.

What are the symptoms?
A symptom is a departure from normal function or feeling which is noticed by a patient, indicating the presence of disease or abnormality. A symptom is subjective,observed by the patient, and not measured.
What causes PTSD?
Complex post traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) usually results from prolonged exposure to a traumatic event or series thereof and is characterized by long-lasting problems with many aspects of emotional and social functioning.
Briefly explain how memory and emotion relate to PTSD.
 PTSD is an emotional illness when people suffer a terribly frightening, life-threatening, or otherwise highly unsafe, they feel sad, then this becomes a bad memory influences his life later on. As time goes, this problem always reminds him of the sad events. Therefore, he has an emotion illness.

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