NON-COMMUNICABLE

DISEASE
POST-

TRAMATIC

STRESS POST-

TRAMATIC

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Mental Health Ailments
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WHAT ARE THE

TREATMENTS
Cognitive behavioural therapy
(CBT) Cognitive behavioural
therapy (CBT) is a type of talking
therapy that aims to help you
manage problems by changing
how you think and act.
Eye movement desensitisation and
reprocessing (EMDR).
Medicine
Support and advice
 POST-TRAMATIC

STRESS

NOTE
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can

WHAT ARE THE develop after a very stressful, frightening or

distressing event, or after a prolonged

WHAT IS
PTSD
traumatic experience. Types of events that

CAUSE AND EFFECTS can lead to PTSD include: serious accidents.

physical or sexual assault.

Post-traumatic stress disorder

CAUSES EFFECT (PTSD) is a disorder that develops

in some people who have

Serious accidents. People with PTSD have intense, disturbing experienced a shocking, scary, or

Physical or sexual assault. thoughts and feelings related to their dangerous event. It is natural to

Abuse, including childhood or experience that last long after the traumatic feel afraid during and after a

domestic abuse. event has ended. They may relive the event traumatic situation. Fear triggers

Exposure to traumatic events at many split-second changes in the

through flashbacks or nightmares; they may
work, including remote exposure.
feel sadness, fear or anger; and they may feel body to help defend against

Serious health problems, such as

detached or estranged from other people. danger or to avoid it.
being admitted to intensive care.