Post Traumatic Stress Disorders Case Study

According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs 6 out of 10 men and 5 out of 10 women are more likely to experience at least once trauma their entire life. Women are more likely to experience sexual assault and abuse while men are more likely to experience accidents, combat, disasters, or witness death. Individuals experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may isolate themselves from others, have flash backs to their traumatic event, have trouble expressing their feelings or not be able to discuss them at all. A lot of PTSD victims will seem like they are always on guard making them irritable. PTS is a very over looked disorder in America as it affects roughly 7.7 million adult veterans. Most of these cases are from returning

Studies show that roughly 1 and 3 women are more apt to experience PTSD as they are more prone to experience sexual assault or domestic violence, while sexual assault is the leading cause for women to develop PTSD than most events. Women are likely to develop severe mental trauma from those events and have trouble coping with them. Women may feel like they are not getting enough social support and may even experience other stressful events afterwards making women feel hopeless as to when it will ever stop. Men on the other hand tend to have less control over their anger than women, and men are less opt to openly share their feelings like women can. This makes treatment for men harder as they have no desire to seek help unlike women who or much more willing to seek help and express how they feel speeding up

Most of the time psychotherapy tends to really open doors to the PTSD victims as it allows them to talk about what is dwelling inside of them instead of bottling it all up. Talk therapy tends to consist of two types cognitive and exposure therapies. Cognitive therapy helps the victim understand and how you think of the traumatic event and the main goal is to make you realize what of the trauma is causing the stress. The victim usually learns way of replacing thoughts of the event with more positive and less stressing thoughts. Usually after these traumatic events the victim will feel guilty or they may even blame their selves. The cognitive therapy is to make you realize that whatever had happened was not really your fault as most of the situations are unavoidable. Exposure therapy’s goal is to make the victim not have as much fear toward their memories and learn to have control over your thoughts and feelings. When you talk about the trauma repeatedly it almost desensitizes the victim as you begin to get less stressed talking about it. The victims almost feel secure and accept the trauma for what it was than beating themselves up. Medications usually comprise of antidepressants with help the victim feel less sad or stressed out. The medication changes chemicals in the brain affecting the way you feel as for example if you have depression you may