PTSD Home Care Path

PTSD is post traumatic stress disorder. Family will describe an individual with symtpoms of post traumatic stress disorder as being stuck. Post traumatic stress disorder is an anxiety disorder. The anxiety takes residence in the subconscious and flings its fearful images on the minds perceiving screen taking the individuals focus away from the physical environment. Like the sneaky pop ups on the computer screen, the anxiety slips its fearful images often fragments of the original trauma on to the individuals perceiving screen. PTSD occurs after the individual has experienced a traumatic event that involves the threat of injury or death. The person with PTSD will have repeated flashbacks as if reliving the traumatic expereince again. The flashback seems so real the body begins to react as if the expereince is occurring in the present. Individuals suffering from PTSD will often avoid persons or places. The is believed to be the mind trying to avoid any object in physical reality that may trigger a full blown flashback of the original event. A person with PTSD will often complain of not feeling anything- as if unsure of what is real and what is imagined, it all seems the same. Individuals with PTSD will display an exaggerated awareness of the area at all times. As if being on guard for another occurrance of an undesirable event. Their is an under lying sense of guilt, often called survivors guilt. The individual with PTSD questions their right to be here and consider the original traumatic experience to be their fault.