Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Post traumatic stress disorder can develop after exposure to one or more terrifying events that are life-threatening have caused grave physical harm or both. It is a severe and ongoing emotional reaction to an extreme psychological trauma.

PTSD may involve someone’s actual death, a threat to the patient’s or someone else’s life, serious physical injury, or threat to physical or psychological integrity — something that pushes the person to put up overwhelming psychological defences. In some cases it can also be caused by profound psychological and emotional trauma, apart from any actual physical harm; however, the two are usually combined.