PTSD Rough Draft

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Rough Draft PTSD is a disorder that develops in some people who have experienced a shocking, scary, or traumatic event. Most people who go through this will have reactions that include shock, anger, nervousness, and fear. Everyone copes with stress differently and many people react in this way. Not every traumatized person develops PTSD. Not everyone with PTSD has been through a dangerous event. Symptoms usually begin early, within 3 months of the traumatic event, but sometimes they begin years afterward. Symptoms must last more than a month and be severe enough to interfere with relationships or work to be considered PTSD. People who suffer from PTSD often relive the experience through nightmares and flashbacks, have difficulty …show more content…

The goal of PTSD treatment is to reduce the emotional and physical symptoms of it. Doctors use antidepressant medications to treat PTSD. The goal of PTSD treatment is to reduce the emotional and physical symptoms of it. About 3.6% of adult Americans about 5.2 million people suffer from PTSD during the course of a year, and an estimated 7.8 million Americans will experience PTSD at some point in their lives. About 6 of every 10 men and 5 of every 10 women experience at least one trauma in their lives. About 11-20 out of every 100 veterans who served in in war have PTSD in a given year. About 8 million adults have PTSD during a given year. Most PTSD victims after finishing their full treatment of therapy only saw a slight difference in their disease. Almost 50% of PTSD victims had to continue therapy and medications after the given time they were given. PTSD is a very traumatic disease that many people who have been through. It takes a very big piece of your life and plays it over, and, over and, over again in your mind until you eventually get used to the very traumatic event that you are being put through. In conclusion, many people with PTSD have to go through very rough times. They have to see a terrifying event that occurred to them every single

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