Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Is A State, Contingent Upon Happening Of An Event
When stress is qualified with two additional words, traumatic on the left side and disorder on the right side, what can happen to an individual? It is not only the situation that you have to face; it is an ordeal that you have to undergo.
It is not a disease in itself. Post traumatic stress disorder or PTSD is a state, contingent upon happening of an event. It depends upon the intensity of the incident, and the level of your response to it. Feeling of danger to life is one of the worst types of traumatic stress disorders one may have to undergo.
Our soldiers are but human beings. There is a limit beyond which the human mind would say, Well, this is the limit. Beyond this I can not bear. This is demonic. The dastardly war-scenes might trouble his memory, repeatedly. Even if you are not the direct sufferer, the impact of the suffering of others, watching a serious accident, a natural calamity like Tsunami, or a violent terrorist attack, a devastating fire- all these could lead to PTSD.
The following factors may also contribute to PTSD:
1. Flashbacks that create...