Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Like icebergs, the incidence of post-traumatic stress that many people experience, more than is recognized for treatment. This is because so many experiences reveal PTSD.
Many of us have traumatic experiences - left behind by loved ones, suffering from serious illness, divorce, accidents, sexual harassment, seeing separate events and so on. At that moment, we may feel very anxious or frightened, or there is deep sadness. Need pain will pass, and life becomes more normal.
But at times those people who are involved in frightening events or experiences that change the burden of life will cause stress where the memories are not reduced, even for a moment. In some people, experience is very extreme. They can not accept the reality experienced. People in need like this may be Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD.

A. Causes PTSD
A person developing PTSD is the result of a response to an extreme trauma - a terrible event that a person experiences, witnesses, or learns, especially life-threatening or that causes physical suffering. Such experiences cause a person to feel a very strong fear, or feelings of helplessness.
Kaplan and Sadock (1997) say that post traumatic stress disorder may appear at any age, but is most prominent in young adults, because of the nature of the situation that triggers it. For women, most often it is assault and rape. The number of traumatized women is twice that of men. Disturbances are likely to occur to those who are alone, divorced, widowed, socially disrupted, or socially withdrawn.

B. PTSD Symptoms
The symptoms of posttraumatic stress are as follows:

1. There are severe and obvious stressors (violence, rape, disaster, war, etc.), which will cause significant symptoms of suffering for almost everyone.
2. Repetitive repetition of the trauma as evidenced by the presence of at least one of the following:
   A recurring and prominent memory of the event
   Repeated dreams of the event
   Sudden emergence of behavior or feeling, as if the traumatic event is re-arising, because it is associated with an idea or stimulus / stimulus.
3. Collection of responses to the outside world or diminished relationships with the outside world, beginning some time after trauma, and expressed at least one of the following:
   Significant reduction in interest in one or more significant activities
   Feeling detached or alienated from others
   Affek (nature persaan) that narrow or depressive affects (moody, sad, despair)
4. There are at least two of the following symptoms that did not exist before the trauma occurred, namely:
   Vigilance or exaggerated shock reaction
   Sleep disturbance (accompanied by disturbing dreams)
   Persaan guilty of escaping the danger of death, while others do not, or feel guilty about what he does to keep alive
   Concentration trouble
   Avoidance of activities that evoke memories of the traumatic event