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| ===== Origin & Background ===== | ===== Origin & Background ===== | ||
| - | The concept of post-traumatic stress is not a new one. War veterans returning from battle have been reporting symptoms of flashbacks, hyper-arousal, anxiety and depression, for hundreds of years (Malia, 2014). When Civil war veterans were first diagnosed, physicians referred to it as “Soldier’s Heart”, “Shell Shock” or “Combat Fatigue”. It wasn’t until 1980, that the American Psychiatric Association (APA) added Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III). | + | The concept of post-traumatic stress is not a new one. War veterans returning from battle have been reporting symptoms of flashbacks, hyper-arousal, anxiety and depression, for hundreds of years (Malia, 2014). When Civil war veterans were first diagnosed, physicians referred to their symptoms as “Soldier’s Heart”, “Shell Shock” or “Combat Fatigue”. It wasn’t until 1980, that the American Psychiatric Association (APA) added Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III). |
| PTSD is broadly characterized by an extreme reaction to trauma that changes how a person thinks, feels and behaves (Malia, 2014). This can present in a variety of different ways, of varying severity, and causes considerable distress to the individual, usually affecting their ability to function normally. An individual who develops PTSD hasn't necessarily gone through a traumatic event, but may experience symptoms of traumatic stress indirectly from a trauma affecting close friends or family (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, 2016). The proximity, duration and severity of trauma exposure can affect whether or not you develop symptoms. For example, you are more likely to develop symptoms if you personally experience chronic, severe trauma such as childhood abuse, rather than an individual who witnesses one-time experience, such as a robbery (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). | PTSD is broadly characterized by an extreme reaction to trauma that changes how a person thinks, feels and behaves (Malia, 2014). This can present in a variety of different ways, of varying severity, and causes considerable distress to the individual, usually affecting their ability to function normally. An individual who develops PTSD hasn't necessarily gone through a traumatic event, but may experience symptoms of traumatic stress indirectly from a trauma affecting close friends or family (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, 2016). The proximity, duration and severity of trauma exposure can affect whether or not you develop symptoms. For example, you are more likely to develop symptoms if you personally experience chronic, severe trauma such as childhood abuse, rather than an individual who witnesses one-time experience, such as a robbery (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). | ||
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| - | **Figure 1**: This image depicts the six main components of post-traumatic stress disorder (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). | + | **Figure 1**: This image depicts the six main components of post-traumatic stress disorder (Sadock & Ruiz, 2015). |
| === Normal Stress Reaction === | === Normal Stress Reaction === | ||
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| - | **Figure 2**: This image shows how brain structures respond differently in an individual experience post-traumatic stress disorder (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). | + | **Figure 2**: This image shows how brain structures respond differently in an individual experience post-traumatic stress disorder (Sadock & Ruiz, 2015). |
| ===== Symptoms ===== | ===== Symptoms ===== | ||
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| - | These are a lot of mental health resources that are related to people struggling with PTSD. Although some of these organizations don’t specialize specifically in PTSD, there are treatments or programs that they may provide. A lot of these organizations work together as opposed to separate and different organizations may handle different illnesses depending on the community that they are located in. If some can’t find what they are looking for at one of these organizations they will have connections to others that do. These five organizations are not the only five that deal with PTSD. There are a variety of them out there, the common ones were selected that were located in Canada. | + | There are a lot of mental health resources that are related to people struggling with PTSD. Although some of these organizations don’t specialize specifically in PTSD, there are treatments or programs that they may provide. A lot of these organizations work together as opposed to separate and different organizations may handle different illnesses depending on the community that they are located in. If some can’t find what they are looking for at one of these organizations they will have connections to others that do. These five organizations are not the only five that deal with PTSD. There are a variety of them out there, the common ones were selected that were located in Canada. |
| ==Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Association of Canada (PTSDAC)== | ==Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Association of Canada (PTSDAC)== | ||
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| + | ===== PTSD Powerpoint Presentation ===== | ||
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| ===== References ===== | ===== References ===== | ||
