Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder can develop after the experience of a traumatic event. ... Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Acute Stress Disorder manifest when the individual develops the previously mentioned symptoms as well as three or more of the additional symptoms. ... Although the symptoms are easily identifiable, the psychological and biological reasons for the symptoms may seem unclear to some. ... Some individuals try to self-medicate themselves with drugs and alcohol to ease their psychological distress. ... Although PTSD is a serious debilitating problem, if left untreated, many di...

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Did the residents of Craiglockhart Suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder? The National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder report that 7.8 percent of Americans will develop Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in their lifetime. ... They used these tactics in an attempt to "minimize the intensity of their psychological responses" (National Center for PSTD). ... "Post Traumatic Stress Disorder." Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. 3rd ed. ...

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Psychological symptoms are deviations of what are considered as normal and indicates the mental or physical disorder to the person. ... These symptoms are in fact psychological and physical wounds. ... Comorbidity is the presence of one or more additional disorders co-occurring with a primary disease or disorder; or the effect of such additional disorders or diseases. The additional disorder may also be a behavioral or mental disorder. With Sadie's psychological symptoms and diagnosis she clearly has comorbid disorders. ...

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The soldiers in All Quiet on the Western Front depict relations with soldiers in real life by their comradeship, psychological issues, and isolation from the real world. ... A psychological dilemma within a soldier varies over time before, during, and after war. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a potentially mental health debilitating condition that occurs in people who have experienced or witnessed a natural disaster, serious accident, or horrifying incident, such as war (http://www.adaa.org/understanding-anxiety/posttraumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd ). ... Another commonly known disor...

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The psychological harm that an abortion do to a woman are countless. ... Traumatic aftereffect of abortion include the following: suicide, depression, trauma, eating disorders, substance abuse, coercion, guilt and repressed grief. ... This come with even higher risks such as prior emotional and psychological problem, lack of care, rare consulting and being unconfident on her decisions. ... In some cases woman who don't know not how to cope with an abortion suffer of post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD), a psychological dysfunction which result of a traumatic experience. ... With an abor...

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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychological method that is used to help treat experimental based disorders and emotional difficulties that are caused by negative or disturbing life experiences. ... She believes that all humans are understood to have a psychologically based information processing system which can be compared to other body systems, such as the digestive tract. ... It can not be applied to every clinical disorder. The disorder that EMDR is mainly used to treat is posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). ... It is thought that EMDR may be effective for...

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Close corroborative investigation makes it seems likely that some persons - especially those with DID - have not really experienced the abuse, which they describe vividly to their psychological interviewers. Multiple personality disorder (MPD) is a psychiatric disorder characterized by having at least one "alter" personality, which controls behavior. ... By this dissociative process, thoughts, feelings, memories, and perceptions of the traumatic experiences can be separated off psychologically, allowing the child to function as if the trauma had not occurred. ... What is also widely believed...

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Septimus Warren Smith and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. ... "Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder General Information: The Nature of PTSD."" The National Centre for War-Related Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (NCPTSD). ... Several psychological problems may develop when an individual experiences severe trauma, such as serving in a war. ... Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is "a serious psychological reaction that develops in some people following experience of overwhelmingly frightening or traumatic events- (NCPTSD). ...

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A lifetime of abuse has a major psychological effect on young adults. Those who escape the organization often suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, anxiety, hostility, and depression. ... But psychological damage quickly follows a traumatic life style such as sex trafficking. ... But side effects of these manipulation tactics become extreme emotional and psychological damage that haunts these victims for the rest of their life....

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It lurks beneath consciousness and allegedly causes a myriad of psychological and physical problems from bulimia to insomnia to suicide.The idea of unconsciously repressing the memory of traumatic experiences is controversial. ... "For example, reports of recovered memories of child sex abuse may be described as the result of implanting, false memory syndrome, repression, dissociation, motivated forgetting, directed forgetting, amnesia, betrayal trauma, retroactive inhibition, suggestion, self-induced hypnotic trance states, personality disorder, thought suppression, retrieval inhibition, cogn...

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