What is Trauma?
Post Traumatic Stress (PTS) became common in the media and public vocabulary following the Vietnam War. Whilst this raised awareness of the impact of Trauma on a person's life, it sometimes misleads people into thinking that one could only suffer from PTS if they experienced a major social trauma such as war, or natural disasters.

However, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) describes the on-going effects to a person of experiencing or seeing trauma. Trauma can be experienced from any personally terrifying experiences such as being mugged, rape, beatings, being robbed, house being broken into, or being a witness to these types of traumatic events or seeing horrific car crash, or a terrifying event.

Symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
A person suffering from post traumatic stress may experience PTSD symptoms such as:

• Recurrent recollections (images, thoughts), dreams, or feelings (as though reliving what happened).

• Great distress when confronted with 'cues' /’triggers’ that remind them of, or symbolize the event.

• Tries to avoid events, people or activities that might remind them of the trauma.

• Generally pulling away from friends or family (not really interested in activities, appearing distant, feeling a bit 'numb' towards loved ones / peers).

• Lost interest in, or feeling depressed about the future ("I can't see myself getting married/growing old" etc).

• Hyper vigilance or control over what needs to happen in life around you.

Other personality or behavior changes may include: sleeping trouble, being moody and losing their temper more regularly, trouble concentrating, being very watchful or easily startled.

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