psychological and Mental Health
Symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
stress symptoms
Dr. Barbara Rothbaum, an expert in the treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), describes the symptoms of this disorder. PTSD commonly affects war veterans but may also affect those who’ve experienced other traumatic events such as terrorist bombings, disasters or abuse. More Information Innovative Treatments for PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury Presented to Veterans Affairs Committee shared.web.emory.edu The Emotional Fallout of War (Emory Magazine article, Spring 2008 www.emory.edu After Iraq: Treating PTSD (Podcast, MP3, 3.64 MB) whsc.emory.edu Trauma and Anxiety Recovery Program, Emory University www.psychiatry.emory.edu
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#7 written by EmoryUniversity 1 year ago
@pyromaniaknl Actually new approaches to therapy are showing a lot of promise. Virtual reality therapy has been used, for example, in combination with anti-anxiety drugs, and in a relatively short time, PTSD sufferers are able to notice results. Go to Emory’s web site and search on Barbara Rothbaum and you will be able to find more.
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#10 written by pyromaniaknl 1 year ago
I’m 23 and i had alot mental problems over the 5-6 years, i was psychotic based on alcohol for a while but got over it mostly quit drinking. Now i experience extreme stress when i have to do surtain things, a friend of my slept here yesterday and in the middle of the night he lights up a sigarette and that sound of the ligher came through me like a slap in the face, also i never sleep good wake up in the middle of the night screaming shaking from fear.
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#15 written by UpasanaKaDasi 1 year ago
i can’t get over the fact that the original stressor is still there. they keep saying people in ptsd aren’t living in the present but it’s my opinion they are especially if theres fear of being sent back to iraq for multiple tours. it’s usually not just one traumatic even either or single triggers. often it’s a life of trauma with a mixture of factors relating and a fear/prevention to keep it from happening again.
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#20 written by poeticpaul 1 year ago
@EmoryUniversity hI I have long believed I have a Genetic Predisposition that influenced my P.T.S.D. The external Environment Influences talked about in the Epigenetics Evolution Video make sense to me you could research this regarding P.T.S.D. And in conjunction with Rare Genetic Disorders and the Trauma of losing a child it’s (Global Genes for Jeans day) this 28th Febuary (odesofsurvival).
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#21 written by poeticpaul 1 year ago
@EmoryUniversity Hi thank you so much for responding I am sitting here crying I live in England my first trauma was as a 3 year old I’m52 now please find time to read my profile you will see my web site details on my site you can read some of my early traumas and of how I lost my son to a rare Genetic Disorder. (gauchers Disease). I met the Great Jim Watson. see my favorate list little Miss Hannah, to inspire you and others in to stem Cell Research Re Epigenetics Evolution see the link.
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#23 written by poeticpaul 1 year ago
Hi I would have liked to hear much more especially the types of therapy needed for variouse types of trauma including multiple unresolved trauma over decadess.
I have endured many shocking traumas in many types of situations incredibly the hypervigilence and startle reactions talked about have actually saved my life in the most incredible way’s yet this too in part of my trauma so incredible the way I survived yet no one to share it with Health professionals just wont let me explain help”
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@primesuspect71 At Emory the drug they are testing is d-cycloserine (DCS). DCS had previously been used in a similar way by the same doctor in the treatment of acrophobia (fear of heights). The PTSD treatment only takes place 5-6 times, I believe, and the DCS dose is only given those 5-6 times.
Wendy
Emory U. video manager