Although PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) is frequently connected to military combat, it can also be triggered from a wide range of heavily stressful situations. Psychological trauma can stem from horrific ordeals such as sexual attacks, serious accidents, or terrible situations such as a house fire or a burglary.
A member of the family passing away can also bring on a psychological trauma. Their death does not need to be sudden or an unpleasant one to send a person into a PTSD state of mind because people respond to highly stressful situations, such as grief, in different ways.
Any situation which can send someone into a sudden state of shock, such as a car crash, even if nobody gets seriously injured, can bring on the indications of PTSD. And Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is not exclusively associated to a single event; it can lie dormant for many years, and can be triggered by something completely unrelated at random.
Symptoms of the condition can consist of a person reliving the traumatic event over and over again in their head, constant anger and mood swings, re-occurring nightmares, a feeling of helplessness and a fear of anything unexpected.
Medication such as serotonin is sometimes prescribed for PTSD victims but alternative action is thought to produce more successful long-term results. One effective treatment to help sufferers combat this condition is the introduction of new EMDR workshops (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) across the UK.
EMDR uses a person’s eye movements to recycle the traumatic experience retained in the brain so that it becomes embedded and ultimately transforms into a distant memory. In order to be an expert in this field, therapists need to undergo a period of specialist EMDR training so they can cope professionally with the demands of such a varied but sensitive subject.
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