The main cause of the disorder is characterized by the inability to recover after experiencing or witnessing a frightening event.
The disorder can last from months to years, and there are often episodes that are reminiscent of the trauma and cause intense emotional and physical reactions. Requires medical diagnosis. Laboratory tests or imaging studies are not required. It includes different types of psychotherapy and medications to control symptoms.
SYMPTOMS:
- Agitation, irritability, social withdrawal, self-destructive behavior, hypervigilance, or hostility.
- Re-experience the symptoms, intense anxiety, mistrust or fear.
- Loss of interest or pleasure in doing activities, guilt, or loneliness.
- Insomnia or nightmares.
- Emotional detachment or unwanted thoughts.
RECOMMENDATIONS:
- Be willing to listen, but don’t push. Make sure your loved one knows that you want to hear about their feelings.
- Pick a time to talk.
- Recognizes when to pause.
- Get help if he talks about suicide.
- Go to the psychiatrist when you have strange ideas.
- Paranoid thinking: thinking that everyone acts against the person. Excessive obsessions: washing hands compulsively, making absurd collections, checking things over and over again, excessive perfectionism and meticulousness, etc.
There is no specific test to diagnose stress. If you think you are stressed or feeling very anxious, talk to your doctor. Your doctor will usually recognize the symptoms of stress and give you coping advice. Your doctor can also refer you to a counselor if you need one. The specialist will assess if the symptoms have persisted for more than a month, then perform a mental health test and may also do a physical exam.
Over time, the effects of stress can build up in the brain and body. This kind of long-term, or chronic, stress can weaken your immune system and put you at risk for everything from simple colds to more serious illnesses.
TREATMENT:
The main treatments that specialists suggest for post-traumatic stress disorder are talk therapy, medication, or both simultaneously.
- Psychotherapy or talk therapy, there are many talk therapies that help to find the symptoms and how to treat them.
- Medications to help control symptoms such as sadness, worry, anger, and decrease sleep problems and nightmares.
HOW TO GET OVER AN EMOTIONAL TRAUMA:
- Accept it.
- Include your family and friends in your healing.
- Live in community.
- Seek help.
- Build resilience.
- Make your own rituals.
- It will help you to try to keep yourself very busy to avoid thinking about what happened.
https://medlineplus.gov/spanish/posttraumaticstressdisorder.html
