PTSD: POST-TRAUMATIC

STRESS DISORDER
By: Dallas Miller & Sabrita Johnson

WHAT IS PTSD?
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can occur after you have been
through a traumatic event. A traumatic event is something terrible and
scary that you see, hear about, or that happens to you, like:

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Combat exposure

Child sexual or physical abuse

Terrorist attack
Sexual or physical assault
Serious accidents, like a car wreck
Natural disasters, like a fire, tornado, hurricane, flood, or earthquake
http://www.ptsd.va.gov/public/PTSD-overview/basics/what-is-ptsd.asp

SYMPTOMS

Flashbacks- reliving the trauma over and

over, including physical symptoms like a
1. racing heart or sweating
2. Bad Dreams
3. Frightening thoughts
(http://www.nimh.nih.gov)

1. War
2. Rape

CAUSES

3. Physical assault
4. Natural disaster such as Earthquakes,
Hurricanes, or Fire
5. Sexual Abuse
6. Motor Vehicle
7. Animal Attack
(http://www.med.hyu.edu)

EFFECTS

1. Makes them hard to be with

2. Hard time feeling emotional
3. Often become anti-social
4. Detached from others
(http://www.ptsd.va.gov)

WORDS FROM A P.T.S.D. VICTIM

SITE PAGE
http://www.nimh.nih.gov
http://www.med.nyu.edu
http://www.ptsd.va.gov

THE END