Each of us can be extraordinary, traumatic events to go, and most of the rest. However, there are still about one-third of the symptoms for months or years – this is called post-traumatic.
Can give examples of traumatic events:
Equipped with a serious illness diagnosed.
Traffic accidents or even heavier.
Unexpected injury or violent death of a loved one.
As hostages or prisoners of war.
Ill-treatment in prisons and torture chambers.
There are several possible reasons:
Psychologically
Given the obvious things that help you understand what is happening and perhaps help you thereby.
Avoid using does not tire the memory of the trauma. This makes the number of “reps” to a manageable level.
Flashbacks in order to force us to reflect on what has happened and decide what to do if this happens again. Be “aware” means that you can react quickly when a crisis occurs and can give you the energy you need to do next.
Physically
To meet the high adrenaline memories alive, you feel tense, irritable and unable to relax or sleep well.
The hippocampus is a part of the brain that processes memories. Inside, the high levels of stress hormones like adrenaline, can stop the processing of memories of events that continues to produce flashbacks and nightmares.
Symptoms
Symptoms usually begin within six months, and sometimes only a few weeks after the trauma.
After a traumatic event feel sadness, depression, anxiety, guilt and anger. As you can:
After flashbacks and nightmares, reliving the event in his head, again and again.
Do not think and feel overwhelmed by stay busy and avoid something or someone reminds you.
Be “in custody” – to be vigilant all the time, unable to relax, anxious and unable to sleep.
Physical symptoms – pain, diarrhea, heart palpitations, headaches, feeling of anxiety and depression panic.
Start drinking too much alcohol or drugs including painkillers.
Treatment
Try to return to normal routine, talk about what happens to someone you trust and try to do relaxation exercises. Eat regularly, exercise and spend time with family and friends.
It may be helpful to the scene comes back from an injury, but you feel ready for it. Be careful driving – tend to have an accident.
Do not be hard on yourself or expect too much. Symptom, not a sign of weakness, fearing that the normal reaction of normal people. Not be ruled out, others drink, or smoke a lot, kept eating or sleeping.
You know you’re on the mend, if:
Think about it, without being depressed.
Do not feel constantly under threat.
Do not think, at the wrong time.
Support
Psychotherapy helps you remember the case, go ahead and give it a meaning, can not a normal job your thoughts, memories and move forward.
Cognitive behavioral therapy helps you to think differently about their memories, making them less painful and more manageable have become. This includes relaxation, so that you tolerate the effort of remembering a traumatic event.
Used to process Movement Desensitization and recycling of eye movements help the brain and memory to understand the traumatic experience.
Group therapy – in conversation with a group of people who have experienced traumatic events in the same or similar can help you feel less lonely and isolated.
The drugs – antidepressant tablets reduce the severity of symptoms and relieve depression. If you so depressed you can not sleep or think clearly, you may need medications that calm, but not more than 10 days or more.
Helping someone with
Remember that it is easily irritated and upset, as, indeed, some of them are still in a traumatic situation. Give them time to tell him what happened. General questions and not interrupt or talk about their experiences.