By: John C Allen | 2011-11-18 | Mental health Post traumatic stress disorder arises due to exposure to life threatening incident or trauma. Such traumatic experiences may include military combat, natural disasters, terrorist incidents, serious accidents, or violent personal assaults like child abuse and rape etc. read more
By: John Garrison | 2010-03-29 | Mental health Loss of one's home, of a loved one, accidents, murders, and the rest are just some of the many possible causes of post-traumatic stress disorders that people nowadays are suffering from. PTSD or post-traumatic stress disorder is a kind of anxiety disorder that takes on another level, resulting from a very traumatic and life-impacting experience such as the death of a family member, a loved one, the loss of one's finances, and the like. read more
By: Ian Smith Taylor | 2010-03-30 | Regulatory compliance Identity theft can cause serious depression to the victims. Sometimes as far as post traumatic stress disorder. Proactively protect personal identity is becoming more and more important. read more
By: Bambang Hermanto | 2010-04-03 | Mental health Post traumatic stress disorder can affect people who have experienced a traumatic event and those who have witnessed that event. Most people who have gone through a traumatic event tend to experience symptoms such as having frequent bad dreams, feeling unsafe and being fearful most of the time. Fortunately, there are some treatment options available to deal with PTSD. read more
By: Alice Ken | 2012-03-23 | Diseases and Conditions This is a disorder characterized by severe shock or injuries to your body that intimidate your security, making you feel powerless. The major causes of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are any unanticipated unbearable life occurrence. This PTSD can affect the bearer of the incidence, family members close to the victim of a catastrophe, witness, and emergency workers like Red Cross people, bos read more
By: Article Manager | 2010-10-25 | Medicine The term PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) refers to a wide range of emotional and psychological symptons that are noticed after a stressful situation. Medicines are effective to treat the condition. All medication have side effects so it is highly advised to consult an expert before taking medicine. read more
By: Walter Chase | 2011-07-11 | Supplements Most people associate Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) with military combat service. But it can also occur with nonmilitary service, in fact any event that is stressful to the human body can create PTSD. Recent research has shown that taking Omega-3 can help prevent PTSD and help mitigate its effects. Let's look at what PTSD is and how Omega-3 can help prevent and reduce the effects of read more
By: Jonothan Peters | 2011-01-06 | Mental health Looking for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Treatments? Learn useful methods for dealing with PTSD and prevent it from taking captive of your life. read more
By: Jason Epstein | 2011-04-16 | Law Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD is often associated with war veterans, but as a Seattle car accident lawyer, I have seen how this terrible psychological trauma can affect victims of auto accide... read more
By: Alice | 2011-06-03 | Diseases and Conditions Post-traumatic stress disorder (PSTD) is an emotional disorder brought about by anxiety resulting from experiences that are threatening, very frightening and highly unsafe. The sufferers of this disease keep re-experiencing the event or events that triggered the trauma (Shiel and Stoppler, 2008). These people highly avoid people, other things, places that act as a reminder to the event and this is known as avoidance. read more
By: carolyn clayton | 2008-06-22 | Law It has been estimated that 30% of Vietnam war veterans, 10% Gulf war veterans, 6% to 11% Afghanistan war veterans and 12% to 20% of veterans of the Iraq war have suffered from Post Traumatic Stress disorder. This is an anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to one or more terrifying events. The history of PTSD date back to the early 1800’s where military doctors began diagnosing soldiers with "exhaustion" following the stress of battle. This "exhaustion" was characterized by mental shutdown due to individual or group trauma. Around this time there was a syndrome in England c. read more
By: levi mckie | 2012-05-01 | Health & Fitness Although mainstream public knowledge of the condition was somewhat thin on the ground until recent years, the increasing incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has attracted a considerable amount of publicity over the last decade or so. The condition is particularly common among ex-military personnel, and with thousands of soldiers returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan the gr read more
By: Ian J Spencer | 2010-04-02 | Mental health The PTSD or the post-traumatic stress disorder is easy to explain - this is a disorder that follows a traumatic incident. Your mind, filled with the horror and terror of the helplessness you felt during that particular incident, would overreact whenever anything triggers (or reminds you) about the scene. read more
By: Benjamin Le Roux | 2011-07-26 | Mental health Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a condition wherein a person experiences gripping fear persistently as a consequence of flashback thoughts of an event that took place in the past. read more
By: Helen Cox | 2010-04-04 | News and society Post traumatic stress disorder is a reaction to being exposed to an event outside the range of normal human experience. It is a term used to describe a range of psychological symptoms following an event that can be classed as traumatic. In our everyday lives we all have the potential to experience aspects which are frightening and out of our control but military personnel experience this daily, which increases the potential of post traumatic stress disorder occurring. read more