When presented with the issue of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), the majority of people do have a brief understanding of what it is but there are many misconceptions of what the ordeal entails. The psychological trauma is portrayed in many popular war films, which leads much of the public to make an assumption that it only regards military operatives who have recently been in conflict. Although soldiers are certainly a common group of people who suffer with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, it isn’t unique to them.
Veterans are continually placed in very-high stress circumstances and this sometimes does not bring out the normal response from human trauma. Delayed distress in a person can result in PTSD, which needs to be treated by an expert who can help reconstruct the fractured mind of a sufferer. PTSD is a treatable psychological trauma and can be tackled with a dedicated professional skill and a sympathetic ear.
PTSD can also affect any person, of any age, from any circumstances. It is a very complex, personal issue unique to each individual and can come from a broad range of causes, in a variety of symptoms.
Attack victims are one of the main groups of sufferers from PTSD. If someone has been raped, abused or attacked then they are all in a position to attract the condition because there is no way to know for sure how a person will respond to severe trauma until they are put in the situation. A physically strong person could just as easily fall victim to PTSD after a mugging just as well as a physically weak person could recover without treatment.
EMDR workshops (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) are available to sufferers and use Francine Shapiro’s award winning techniques to help get PTSD victims’ lives back on track.
