Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Symptoms and Treatment
Robin D. Webb
Encountering stressful situations is a part of life. Each person will experience stress differently.. When you feel stressed, part of your built-in survival instinct is activated to help you handle stressful or dangerous situations. The fight-or-flight response mechanism prepares your body to respond appropriately to a given situation. While this stress mechanism helps to protect us in certain situations, when a person is overwhelmed by a shocking or life-threatening experience, that trauma can have long-lasting effects on an individual’s mental and emotional health. When a person has Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) their fight-or-flight mechanism is thrown off, and they are forced to relive the traumatic event through flashbacks and nightmares....
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