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Articles about PTSD (0-50 of 120)
- Anxiety Attacks, Panic Disorders And Phobias - What Are They And How Are They Treated?
By: Kate Campbell | - There is quite a range of problems that are referred to as anxiety disorders. People who suffer from panic disorder have extreme anxiety during their panic attacks, and these attacks happen on a regular basis, weekly or sometimes even daily. Social anxiety disorder happens in a particular situation, when you are in a social situation such as at a party, at work or at school.
If you are afraid in a certain situation or of a certain thing it is known as a phobia. Some of the more we ...
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- Five Ideas To Transform A Soldier's Life - Healthcare Strategist Proposes Policy Changes To Benefit
By: Alberto Stellpflug | - (1888PressRelease) November 07, 2009 - Honolulu, Hawaii - Veterans Day is Wednesday, November 11, 2009. Since 9/11, more than 1.6 million men and women have served in the U.S. armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq.
"War changes people," stated Noe Foster, CEO of theStrategist. "Research confirms that the battle does not end when combat soldiers return home. For many the battle intensifies."
A large number struggle with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, (PTSD) Traumatic Bra ...
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- Causes Of Anxiety Symptoms
By: Nathan Tyler | - With so many different anxiety symptoms and disorders, identifying symptoms can be difficult. Sufferers may experience sharp stabbing pains in places such as the neck and on the scalp. However sufferers are not likely to identify these as symptoms of anxiety.
Anxiety symptoms can even cause sexual dysfunction and disinterest. In most cases people fail to tell their doctor about their symptoms. Sometimes it's because symptoms seem too general or non-threatening such as dry mouth or h ...
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- Anxiety Is Wide Spread
By: asasbservices | - Who among us has not at one time or another had something to be anxious about. Whether it was studying for an up-coming exam, a first date, focusing on a work project, preparing for an important speech, or dealing with the pressures of everyday situations, no one is exempt. In fact, the number of Americans feeling anxious or tired has risen recently. It is estimated that about 40 million Americans age 18 and older suffer from one or more anxiety disorders in a given year - which gives way to fe ...
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- Safety Precautions: Dog Bite Injuries
By: Remedios V. Lucio | - A dog owner was recently punished by law when his two pit bull mixed terriers attacked his neighbors while they were hanging outside their front lawn.
These days its usual to hear such accidents occurring in ones neighborhood. Thus theres a need for you to know how to deal with such instances.
The Luna McDaniel and Michael "Blaise" Landry Act expands the definition of negligent injuring to include injuries inflicted by a dog or another animal, and carries ...
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- Are Positive Health Studies More Believable?
By: Knight Pierce Hirst | - According to research done at Copenhagen University Hospital, which included more than 2,800 middle-aged men and women, people with skinny thighs had a 50%-100% higher risk of heart disease or premature death during the 12-year study. Those with thighs measuring less than 23.6 inches were at risk. Those with thighs measuring less than 18 inches were at the greatest risk. It's thought skinny thighs mean a lack of muscle mass and lower body bulk, which are necessary for proper glucose and lipid me ...
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- Anxiety Is Wide Spread
By: deepak1 | - Who among us has not at one time or another had something to be anxious about. Whether it was studying for an up-coming exam, a first date, focusing on a work project, preparing for an important speech, or dealing with the pressures of everyday situations, no one is exempt. In fact, the number of Americans feeling anxious or tired has risen recently. It is estimated that about 40 million Americans age 18 and older suffer from one or more anxiety disorders in a given year - which gives way to fe ...
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- Physical Therapy For Returning Soldiers
By: Amy Nutt | - Thousands of soldiers are returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with moderate to severe physical injuries. Such injuries include head tram, loss of limbs, and debilitating injuries to such areas as the arms and legs. Medical providers are utilizing a number of treatments to help these brave men and woman return to civilian life.
Service dogs are helping to counteract the effects of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) by providing dogs to help calm and relax a soldier ...
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- Common Medical Treatments For Returning Soldiers
By: Amy Nutt | - When soldiers leave for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, they are fit, emotionally healthy, and ready to serve their country. Upon return, they are faced with a number of health issues. Such health conditions include: loss of limbs, traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, substance abuse, depression, and a risk of suicide. This has resulted in a new awareness about the need to implement effective treatments to help these brave men and women.
The following is a lis ...
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- Herbal Remedies For Depression And Its Symptoms
By: Dr. Mital John | - Depression is a very real and treated the disease. Depressive disorders are not the same as a passing blue mood. Depression is very common and affects as many as one in eight young men, in their years. Depression is generally situational and reactive, and associated with pain, loss, or a major social transition. Sadness is a part of being human, a natural reaction to painful circumstances.
All of us will experience sadness at some point in our lives. Depression, however, is a physic ...
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- Pedestrians And Distracted Drivers - A Dangerous Combination
By: Joseph Hernandez | - There are many ways in which drivers can become distracted, confused or disoriented. The problem, of course, is that they control a multi-ton piece of machinery that can cause devastating injuries, especially to pedestrians.
Consider the case in which the driver responsible for the motor vehicle accident was an elderly woman. She was trying to park her car in a diagonal parking space of a mall parking lot. Somehow she became confused and hit the accelerator pedal. Her car pl ...
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- 10 Things Everyone Should Know About Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (ptsd)
By: Jessica A Parker | - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder used to be called 'shell shock'. The condition was first recognised in soldiers returning from WW2 who had gone through shocking and overwhelming experiences at war.
Many of these soldiers had strong feelings of grief, anxiety and anger which wouldn't go away, had flashbacks of horrific scenes and felt compelled to avoid anything associated with their traumatic experiences.
Since then, similar symptoms have been recorded in people who ...
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- Head Injury Compensation Amounts
By: David Sprake | - Head injuries are known to be one of the most common forms of injury that medical professionals may ever have to deal with. For the most part, such injuries are not serious and any compromise to the individuals health and wellbeing will be short-lived and not considered to be particularly severe. However, there are times where head injuries are of a far more serious nature, leading to the possibility of long-term health and life implications in general. It is at these times where head injury com ...
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- Are Teenage At High Risk Of Injury From Pedestrians Accidents
By: Joseph Hernandez | - All parents worries about receiving a phone call that their son or daughter has been hurt in an accident. When children are young we at least draw some comfort from our belief that we will be at their side to protect them when they go out. But as they grow and turn into teenagers they begin to go out on their own. Sometimes even in the evening hours after it has gotten dark. And so we worry. And, unfortunately, sometimes our worst worries come true.
Below we briefly present ...
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- Anxiety Disorder What Should I Know?
By: kirby | - Are you facing situations that cause you to worry a lot more then usual? Worrying about situations that are within our control such as a crazy schedule, an important interview for a job and even a hard test at school is seen to be completely normal in behavior. But when worry and fear encompass your existence, and you find yourself more distraught for elongated periods of time you may be suffering from an anxiety disorder.
An anxiety disorder does not only trigger people of older ag ...
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- Understanding Your Anxiety Disorder
By: kirby | - Do you persistently worry? It is absolutely normal to worry about everyday things such as a bad relationship, crazy schedule, or life in general. But, when worry and dread begin to take over your life, and surround you at every turn you may be suffering from an anxiety disorder.
Anxiety disorders affect people of different ages, some as young as 18 years old can suffer from a disorder. The disorder causes people to feel uncontrollable fear and dread for a span of up to 6 months. Sym ...
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- A Guide To Anxiety Disorder Symptoms.
By: kirby | - Feelings of worry and fear are normal parts of life. Everyone has feared or worried about something at one time or another. If you have ever had an experience where you were completely distraught about a situation, but everything wound up fine later on, that is a sure sign of anxiety. Or, if you were so afraid something was going to happen, that was going to be absolutely devastating and nothing occurred at all, that is also a form of anxiety. Anxiety is a normal feeling that helps us deal with ...
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- Anxiety Disorder Symptoms Broken Down.
By: kirby | - Emotions such as worry, fear and anxiety during a stressful situation are a normal part of life. Everyone has had their own bought with anxiety at least once in their lives. Have you ever subconsciously been dreading doing something, like possibly making a public speech? Just to find out everyone loves what you had to say? Or, have you ever been so worried about finding a job, and the perfect one winds up in your lap? These are all classified cases of feeling anxiety or stress within your life. ...
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- Anxiety Disorder And Anti-anxiety Treatments
By: Mike Argiro | - Anxiety is Wide Spread
Who among us has not at one time or another had something to be anxious about. Whether it was studying for an up-coming exam, a first date, focusing on a work project, preparing for an important speech, or dealing with the pressures of everyday situations, no one is exempt. In fact, the number of Americans feeling anxious or tired has risen recently. It is estimated that about 40 million Americans age 18 and older suffer from one or more anxiety disorde ...
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- Are We Looking At Anxiety Disorders And Depression The Wrong Way?
By: ter1000 | - Current explanations of the cause and cure of problems involving such things as: extreme nervousness, anxiety and panic; obsessive thinking and compulsive behaviour; phobias and depression have failed millions of people looking to understand and overcome these problems. Beliefs about illness / medical / genetic causes and treatments based upon these beliefs have not even come close to an answer.
Yet, when we look closely at these problems we can see that they are not:-
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- Sos Help For Post Trauma Stress Disorder
By: Ian Spencer | - There is very little that you can do on your own when you suffer from PTSD. It is always advisable to consult a doctor and start treatment as early as you can. In the meantime, here are a few steps that could decrease your pain somewhat:
1. Join a support group – it is very hard to allow yourself to dwell on the trauma you experienced. This is why most people who suffer from PTSD seem to shrink within into a world of their own. However, it is important that ...
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- Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms
By: Ian Spencer | - The PTSD or the post-traumatic stress disorder is easy to explain – this is a disorder that follows a traumatic incident. Your mind, filled with the horror and terror of the helplessness you felt during that particular incident, would overreact whenever anything triggers (or reminds you) about the scene. For example, a child is sexually abused by someone close in her or his family, but is unable to stop it or tell it to anyone. When this person grows up into an adult, he or she would have ...
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- Phobias And Anxiety Attacks
By: Ian Spencer | - Phobias are often considered as an integral part of anxiety disorders as they represent intense and illogical fears about things, places or specific situations. These fears often trigger serious anxiety attacks, which if left unattended might escalate into serious health problems. Unfortunately, the most common “treatment” people rely upon for phobias is avoidance. People understand their fear is unfounded, but cannot help themselves. Phobias are classified in five major categories: ...
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- Anxiety Disorder Is A Very Serious Problem
By: GregFrost | - Would you be surprised if I told you that anxiety is ranked no 1 among all the mental conditions in the USA? This is also a disease that can be very difficult to diagnose because people do not usually go to a medical practitioner to ask a remedy for worrying about the various things that plague them. These are real things, their worry is often not misplaced, though too intense - all of which makes it look rather "normal". When they do go for a check up it is almost always for symptoms that is a ...
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- Break Up And Mental Cruelty
By: cdmohatta | - Mental cruelty is normally taken as being referred to spousal behavior. Any behavior that threatens the life, physical health or emotional health is termed as mental cruelty. You read more often about mental cruelty in divorce cases. Can we expand the definition of mental cruelty a little more? Suppose there is a relationship and one partner not only becomes mentally cruel but after that, breaks up leaving the other shattered?
The state of the partner who is left in the cold will ...
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- How To Free Yourself From Trauma, Phobias Anxiety In 7 Days Or Less!
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- Marc J Bern Helping The Victims Of 9-11
By: Paul Justice | - When the events of 9-11 took place, many people rushed in to help. Unfortunately many of these people were also injured while they were doing their jobs. Many of these workers are due compensation but few can find representation. Marc J Bern though works hard to find these people and be sure that they know their rights.
Many people were killed or injured in the events of 9-11. There are of course the victims who were in the towers or in the planes. The shock wave goes much furthe ...
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- Testing For Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (ptsd)- From Barrington And Huntley
By: Dr Mike Shery | - Some people experience stressful events which impair their ability to work, attend school, maintain important relationships or drive because of their previous exposure to a catastrophic event. If this describes you, you may be entitled to obtain remedial damages if psychological testing reveals that you have developed signs of multiple emotional and behavioral problems known as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
The triggering antecedent to PTSD is often a stressful or traum ...
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- American Soldiers Turning To Alcohol 2
By: Dennis_Draking | - American Soldiers Turning to Alcohol
The War in Iraq started out as a war on Terror and troops went overseas willingly to protect Americans honor, but things have changed in the years that have passed. Troops who have returned from active duty in Iraq after years in a war are coming home with suffering from depression and PTSD. They are pleading with the government to help with adjusting with civilian life all while battling nightmares and depression. Some troops are tal ...
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- Chair Massage For Ptsd
By: Brandon J. Thomas | - Traumatic experiences such as war, assault, abuse or devastating loss, can cause post-traumatic stress. Post-traumatic stress affects those who are unable to relegate their traumatic experiences to the past. Trauma survivors often become acutely aware of humans inability to control their circumstances. A traumatic experience also reinforces the unsettling notion that life is delicate and can be taken away or permanently altered at any time.
Unfortunately, many who exper ...
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- Anxiety - What Is Post-traumatic Stress Disorder ?
By: xxalex | - Post-traumatic stress disorder also known as PTSD is a form of anxiety that can occur after the exposure to a terrifying event or ordeal in which grave physical harm happened or was threatened.
Traumatic events that may trigger PTSD include:
- Survivors of devastating earthquakes
- People that witness traumatic events
- Survivors of several accidents on the sea or air
- Physical and sexual abuse or crimes
- Major changes in someone's life ...
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- Health Success Tips - Eye Movement Desensitization/reprocessing For Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
By: Ken Donaldson | - So what exactly is PTSD? It stands for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder develops after an ordeal which involves some form of trauma. The person who develops this disorder may have been harmed or harm may have happened to a loved one, or the person may have witnessed a harmful event which happened to loved ones or strangers.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder was first brought to public attention in relation to war veterans, but it can result from a varie ...
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- Is That The Reason Why I Cannot Deal With Stress After A Traumatic Experience? Part 1
By: Jef Gazley | - Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, has been called many names over the years. It was known as shell-shock in World War I and battle fatigue in World War II. The term post-traumatic stress disorder became well known during the war in Viet Nam. It simply means a person has experienced an overwhelming trauma and there is a delayed reaction that occurs days, months, or years after the original stress has occurred. However, the dynamics of post-traumatic stress disorder are very ...
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- Rape Truama Stress Disorder: A Primer
By: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes | - Studies show that 97% of rape survivors will experience PTSD. Almost 50% of survivors still meet the criteria for PTSD even three months after the rape. Nearly 1/3 of people with addictions have been raped. For many people, alcohol and drugs helps them sleep and numb the memories of the rape. So while many people can heal and move forward, a large percentage of survivors simply cannot. We all know that rape is not about sex. It is about power, control, and intimidation. Rape is a violent crime w ...
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- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - What Are The Symptoms?
By: Linda Woods | - During World War Two, a strange phenomenon called "Battle Fatigue" affected many veterans after they returned home from combat zones in Europe and the Pacific. Today, we know this condition to be "post traumatic stress disorder". Back then, returning veterans didn't talk about it, because discussing these worrisome symptoms suggested weakness or cowardice.
Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a medical disorder that can occur to anyone after experiencing an extremely stressful ...
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- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (ptsd): What Is It
By: Dawn-Elise Snipes | - Over the past decade, as I have worked with cops, firfighters, abuse victims and children of addicts, I have learned that there are many causes for PTSD. It has also affirmed my belief that PTSD is real and harmful, not only to those who have it, but also to those around them. It impacts the way we act, react, our motivation and our capacity to feel--well, anything.
Terrifying experiences that shatter people's sense of predictability and invulnerability can profoundly alter their ...
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- What Is Stress Disorder Anxiety Anyway?
By: Abigail Franks | - According to the National Institute of Mental Health, (NIMH), Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is one of the 5 recognized types of mental illness commonly known as anxiety disorders. While these five major categories are significant, the complexity of mental disorders demand for segmentation into even more conditions.
The post-traumatic stress syndrome, or PTSD is commonly associated with veterans returning from a war zone. Further study however, has suggested that this disorder isn ...
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- Living With Generalized Anxiety Disorder
By: Jim Kesel | - Most of the world's populace has or will suffer from some kind of mental disorder. It seems that a new one is discovered each month. Never the less these disorders and Phobias can make the life of the suffer quite miserable. One the most common mental conditions is called anxiety or anxiety disorder. There are many derivations of this common mental illness. A severe form is called GAD short for Generalized Anxiety Disorder.
In general anxiety is the natural reaction to being expos ...
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- What Is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?
By: Carl Walker | - One thing that is coming up more than ever is the condition called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Some were aware of it before this became the common name and remember it as shell shock. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a disorder suffered by rising numbers of people today.
It starts with events that are so traumatic for those suffering, that they can't deal with it all at once, and shouldn't be expected too. In wars, many soldiers experience horrors that were extremely b ...
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- Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
By: Alex Rider | - A form of anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is sometimes formed after someone has experienced a very terrifying ordeal, usually where serious physical damage could or did occur to the person involved.
Events that can trigger PTSD to occur include violent attacks on people e.g. muggings, rape, human caused or natural disasters, and military combat. Once someone has PTSD they often find it to be hugely disabling.
Large quantities of research has ...
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- Hypnosis And Ultradian Rhythm A Natural Strategy For Relaxation And Healing
By: Alan Crisp | - Pressure of modern-day life
So many people these days are under so much pressure to perform in one way or another and under so much strain from just everyday living in a fast paced and highly stressed modern world.
It is little wonder then that some people turn to relaxation therapy as a way to slow down the madness and to allow them time to catch their breath. In fact what they are doing is a natural and necessary process of the human condition,that becomes for those who w ...
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- Reduce Stress And Reduce Your Fibromyalgia Symptoms
By: Jane Thompson | - Stress and pain are irreversibly linked in fibromyalgia. For many people, some kind of stressful event is what initially triggers fibromyalgia. It often shows up after a serious illness, some kind of emotional or mental shock or with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). There is probably a genetic tendency toward fibromyalgia, and many people believe that stress unmasks the disorder.
Fibromyalgia is thought to be a central nervous system disorder in which either pain-sensing ner ...
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- Been In A Car Crash Or Work Accident? Think You Might Have Post-traumatic Stress Disorder?
By: Dr Mike Shery | - As a psychologist and marriage counselor, I find that there can be up to 25 warning signs that indicate you or a family member would benefit from counseling or therapy when experiencing PTSD.
First, what are these signs?
1.Exposure to possible death or serious injury that resulted in an intense feeling of fear, hopelessness or horror
2.Intrusive, distressing thoughts or images that recall the disturbing event
3.Disturbing dreams asso ...
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- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Is A State, Contingent Upon Happening Of An Event
By: Ashish Jain | - When stress is qualified with two additional words, traumatic on the left side and disorder on the right side, what can happen to an individual? It is not only the situation that you have to face; it is an ordeal that you have to undergo.
It is not a disease in itself. Post traumatic stress disorder or PTSD is a state, contingent upon happening of an event. It depends upon the intensity of the incident, and the level of your response to it. Feeling of danger to life is one of the ...
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- Perspectives On Psychotherapy
By: Hugh Rosen | - The origins of professional psychotherapy are to be found in psychoanalysis, developed by Sigmund Freud. In earlier days it was frequently referred to as the talking cure. Although the key concept of the unconscious in Freuds system did not originate with him, it was he who formalized it into a complex theory and basis for treatment.
Psychoanalysis was known to be a lengthy process, conducted three to five days a week over a period of many years. Ironically, some of Freu ...
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