🤎Did you know often times PTSD can be diagnosed as other psychological disorders because often unless someone was in war or witnesses a severely catastrophic event, they are thought to not have PTSD. “I mean, it’s not like she saw people dying everywhere in front of her, she can’t have PTSD.”
❌FALSE.
🖤PTSD is kind of like a banking system that went wrong in your head. Where you kept being overloaded with bill after bill after bill, but never processed the payments. You’ve just kept those bills hanging around, sometimes for decades, and until you process them, they are looming and causing stress.
🤎PTSD is a NORMAL reaction to an ABNORMAL situation.
🖤It’s estimated that 50% of people will experience a trauma at some point in their life. The defining characteristic of a traumatic event is its capacity to provoke fear, helplessness, or horror in response to the threat of injury or death and therefore can affect anyone. Examples of traumatic events include assault, road traffic accident, natural disasters, domestic and child abuse, war, acts of terrorism and traumatic childbirth.
🤎Most people who experience these events go on to have short term distress followed by a more “normal” life where the experience remains a memory but in times fades to a painful, but not destructive memory.
🖤20% of these people though do go on to have painful, destructive memories that turn into what we know as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. PTSD as it goes by, affects 6,665,000 people in the UK alone!
Symptoms are generalized into 4 different categories
❤️🩹Do you or a loved one battle PTSD?
❤️🩹What are some things you have tried or are doing that are easing the symptoms?
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