Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is Hard to
Live With
Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder is something that is hard to live with, because a person is replaying
a traumatic event that happened in their life. This is a play back of the event
that a person has to live with on a daily bases, whether it is something they
want to remember or not. The family of the person living with this disorder
will have a hard time as well, because the person looks good on the outside but
has the issues on the inside. When the person does not talk about it the family
seem to forget that anything is wrong with the person. The person fighting PTSD
can be shunned by his /her peers, because people do not understand what is
going on with the person.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a
real disorder due to a person seeing a traumatic event, being in a war,
hurricane, seeing a dangerous event, or a rape victim. Post- Traumatic Stress
Disorder can come at any age even children get it too. What happens is that a
person will become really stressed and afraid from the event, the person will
show signs of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The time frame that a person will
show symptoms of PTSD really depends on the person. Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder can occur at any age and time after a tragedy. The person can show
signs right after the frightening event and then continue or other people can
develop new symptoms or more sever signs months to years later.
When the person is shunned they do
not understand why this has happened but will be hurt and feel alone. This
person is suffering with feelings of helplessness and will get depressed.
People around this person do not really understand what their loved one is
really going through. People with PTSD do not know how to tell their loved ones
that they have these feelings of helplessness and hurt feeling, they just know
something is going on with them. The family and friends shun them, which can
make the matters worse because this is the time that a person with Post
Traumatic Stress Disorder really needs their family and friends.
A person with PTSD will feel overwhelmed with
feelings of depression and anger because they relive the traumatic event over
and over, the person will have flashbacks and this person does not know how to
deal with this traumatic event and relieve the stress that they feel. They will
start to have scary thoughts they can not control, feelings of guilt, sadness
or worry, trouble sleeping, bursts of anger, feeling on edge or thoughts of
hurting yourself or others (National Institute of Mental Health).
The person living with this post
traumatic stress disorder and will need to get help be a psychologist because
there is a behavioral therapy that can be done with the person that is
suffering from this horrible disorder. This will get the person to understand
what is really happening to them and how to deal with the situation.
This is not a human error because it
has happened by something that was a tragedy or an accident. In some cases yes,
this could be, because of a human error; for example, when someone gets hurt
from a gunshot, killed unexpectedly in front of you and the person feels
helpless, a rape victim or you have been in a war and seen several different things
going on in life.
When all these tragedies happen
there is nothing that we can do different to get them to stop because they are
accidents and you are just a person in the spot at the wrong time. A person
that had PTSD will relive this accident over and over in their life until the
person gets help. This person will hide the traumatic event from the ones that
they love if this has happened in the past and before the loved ones, because
they do not want to talk about it for the fact it brings the feelings back. The
person will try to deal with getting rid of the stress or depressing and the
replay on their own, but it will get worse if they go untreated.
Treatment is figuring out what
triggers the PTSD and how to calm a person with it. There are many ways to
treat PTSD after finding the trigger. The treatment can take six-months to a
year or longer depending on the person. The treatment is talk therapy,
medication or both (National Institute of Mental Health). We need to find out how
can we shut off the replay of the traumatic event in this person’s mind and
help them find that equal balance. The doctors can also prescribe
antidepressants to help with a relief in this position. Treatment will also be
with the person’s family to help them understand what is really going on and
how to help the loved one relax and live a normal life.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is a
disorder that people are just starting to hear about but not really
understanding that the person looks normal, acts normal, but will act out
strangely or angry at different times over something that triggers this
disorder to pop out. People are in need of getting help with PTSD, so that they
can live a normal life that they dreamed to live. Family and friends need to
get help for someone they think might have PTSD so that they can all live a
full life. If you feel that your family member had Bipolar disorder get them
checked out it could be PTSD.
Work Cited:
Mayo
Clinic Staff. “Post Traumatic Stress Disorder”, www.mayoclinic.com. Mayo Clinic 8 April 2011, web 5 May 2013
National
Institute of Mental Health. “Post Traumatic Stress Disorder”. www.nimh.nih.gov. National
Institute of Mental Health. Web. 8 May 2013
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