Treatment for stress disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Help for stress disorders and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is available at our anxiety clinics in London and Hampshire,
Post-traumatic stress disorder is an anxiety disorder that can occur immediately after someone has experienced a terrifying experience or months and years after the event. It is normal to experience confusion and distress after a traumatic event and sometimes the symptoms pass on their own. It is when symptoms persist that they can become troublesome.
The type of events that can cause PTSD include:
- Serious road accidents
- Violent personal assaults, such as sexual assault, mugging or robbery
- Prolonged sexual abuse, violence or severe neglect
- Witnessing violent deaths
- Military combat
- Being held hostage
- Terrorist attacks
- Natural disasters, such as severe floods, earthquakes or tsunamis
PTSD can also be experienced as a reliving of the events, including flashbacks, nightmares, feelings of guilt, isolation and outbursts of anger and irritability. For more information and references please refer to:
www.nhs.uk/Conditions/post-traumatic-stress-disorder/Pages/Introduction.aspx
http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/conditions/post-traumatic-stress-disorder
