Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) - a paramedic's perspective.

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Post traumatic stress disorder (posttraumatic stress disorder) or burn-out has always been and swerve for paramedics and other emergency responders, but it wasnt recognized or point considered to be a significant problem. The engenders of PTSD range from a major life-threatening incident (e.g. war, act of violence, accident and disaster) to a prolonged series of events (e.g. bullying, harassment, abuse, living with a violent partner). PTSD was introduced in the 1980s, before then it has been known by more names including shell shock, war neurosis, soldiers heart, gross stress reaction, brief situation disturbance, combat stress, combat fatigue, battle fatigue, stress breakdown, traumatic neurosis.



The fol subalterning is a list of PTSD symptoms that I turn in gathered from various sources, but mostly from psychology courses that I have taken in the paramedic program:

* stop problems, nightmares and waking early

*flashbacks and replays which the victim cant switch off

*impaired retrospect, forgetfulness, inability to cogitate names, facts and dates that are well known to you

*impaired concentration

*poor memory and inability to concentrate

*exaggerated startle response

*irritability, sudden intense anger, chance(a) violent outbursts

*panic attacks

*hypersensitivity, whereby every remark is perceived as critical

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*obsessive - the experience takes over your life, you cant get it out of your mind

* sound out and muscle pains which have no obvious cause

*feelings of nervousness, anxiety

* oxidizable depression

*excessive levels of shame, embarrassment

*survivor guilt for having survived when others perished

*a feeling of having been given over a second chance at life

*undue fear

*low self-esteem and shattered self-confidence

*emotional numbness, inability to feel esteem or joy

*feelings of detachment

*avoidance of anything that reminds you of the experience

*physical and mental paralysis at any reminder of the experience

So what types of experiences are most likely to cause PTSD? Is PTSD more prevalent in highly populated...

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