Studies indicate that as many as 15 O 25 35 50 percent of all cases of acute stress disorder develop into PTSD.
Posttraumatic stress disorder or PTSD is a psychiatric disorder that develops as a consequence of experiencing or watching a traumatic incident often involving accidents, natural disasters, war, terrorist attack, violence, sexual assaults, etc. The individual might have experienced or witnessed an incident or situation that included death or threatened death or grave injury. In PTSD, the sufferer or the survivor cannot get rid of the traumatic experience that they encounter.
People with PTSD, have repeated, automatic interfering or unwanted distressing memories of traumatic events. These memories are strong as well as disturbing and persist even after the traumatic incident has ended. Individuals reexperience those traumatic events in flashbacks while they are awake or as nightmares during sleep. As a result, these individuals avoid stimuli that involve incidents or people related to traumatic events, since these remind the individual of the traumatic incident.
For an individual to be diagnosed with PTSD, the symptoms should persists for more than a month and also acts as a hindrance in an individual's daily functioning
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